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Huge increase of traffic on HN?

1 points by yoha 12y ago

I have just noticed that compete.com shows an overwhelming augmentation of unique visitors on Hacker News in the last months. https://siteanalytics.compete.com/news.ycombinator.com I have not found much in HN submission history and I am not sure how to read this data: * is compete.com data reliable? * could this be artificial? (e.g. DDoS) * is this related to a particular event? * does 1M unique visitors makes sense? This also may be relevant: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=hacker%20news

dang 12y ago
That's interesting. Roughly how do they get their data? That graph looks nice, but we had a lot more than 0 users in May, so I'm not sure they're measuring a real trend. Are these supposed to be daily visitors? Last I checked, our numbers show around 250k unique IPs a day and 2.5M a month. This has grown quite a bit recently; Sam tweeted about it the other day.