Ask HN: How much traffic do you get from hitting the HN front page?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=566166

by ashishk • 17 years ago

5 4 17 years ago

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Just curious.

visdo• 17 years ago

Show your site then answer your own question.

thorax• 17 years ago

Last time it happened for one of our sites it was ~1500 visits or so. I'm sure it various depending on content/interest/day/etc.

Though I'm not sure why you'd be so keen on the actual numbers. This isn't the sort of site where you're really looking to get pageviews-- it's more about the great feedback and comments really.

cperciva• 17 years ago

Going through my server logs counting lines which were (a) within 2 days of my submitting a link here, and (b) matched /ycombinator/i, I get the following:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29791 (16 points, June 21, 2007): 260 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70823 (2 points, October 21, 2007): 39 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=106071 (4 points, January 29, 2007): 99 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=142366 (12 points, March 21, 2008): 191 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182974 (19 points, May 7, 2008): 257 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209799 (16 points, Jun 5, 2008): 259 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227327 (6 points, Jun 25, 2008): 121 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231036 (5 points, Jun 29, 2008): 160 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=340820 (31 points, October 23, 2008): 768 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=356704 (4 points, November 7, 2008): 57 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=359788 (45 points, November 10, 2008): 884 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397279 (27 points, December 14, 2008): 982 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=401876 (46 points, December 18, 2008): 781 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438070 (37 points, January 17, 2009): 685 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=440370 (5 points, January 19, 2009): 60 hits

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=508818 (87 points, March 9, 2009): 2638 hits

Of course, this doesn't count traffic from sites like icombinator.net which "re-skin" HN, nor does it count traffic resulting from people seeing links here and posting them elsewhere.

patio11• 17 years ago

About 3,000 to 4,000 in 48 hours the last three times.

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