Google Analytics data of being slashdotted and posted here.

http://smellslikedonkey.com/wordpress/?p=313

by mrcharles • 17 years ago

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psadauskas• 17 years ago

I don't think a slashdotting is what it used to be, both in the number of users, and in the amount of bandwidth available to the site getting slashdotted.

blhack• 17 years ago

Agreed. I am not a programmer by any stretch of even my own imagination, but I do have a website that kindof sortof seems to work. I've had things make it to the front page of here, and slashdot and was extremely surprised that it didn't just crash my machine (it's slicehost's cheapest VPS).

This was weird to me because I grew up around fark and slashdot hearing stories about servers going down almost immediately after being posted. I think that those days might actually be gone.

vidarh• 17 years ago

It's always been a case of severely underpowered hosts. I've gotten slashdotted several times, and frankly it's not that much traffic (anymore, anyway)

The biggest problem seemed to be sites running on hosts with far too little memory, far too low maximum number of Apache (or whatever) processes, or mismatched maximum number of Apache processes and database connections.

Though I'm sure there's at least an order of magnitude difference depending on the post.

m_eiman• 17 years ago

It's more often a problem of running our of server side resources than bandwidth (if your blog software isn't configured to survive a lot of users, you're going to run out of RAM and CPU long before you run out of bandwidth).

petercooper• 17 years ago

My Beginning Ruby royalties post that did pretty well here got about 3000 visitors from HN in the first 24 hours, and 4000 from Slashdot in.. several hours, before I took it down due to their erroneous summary (and having had a kid the same day) :-)

paraschopra• 17 years ago

Your bounce rate is surely very high (90%) - do others also have this large bounce rate? Ours is close to 50%

jhancock• 17 years ago

you get 50% bounce from spikes from reddit, slashdot? or you get 50% bounce rate normally?

pavs2• 17 years ago

Purely in terms of traffic, slashdot or reddit doesn't give you anywhere as much traffic as Digg or Stumbleupon can send your way.

They all have a high bounce rate, I think it is normal for traffic from social media sites.

alxp• 17 years ago

Digg will give you a big spike right away but it fall off the front page so fast that it doesn't last long. Slashdot seems to give you a boost for a whole day.

pavs2• 17 years ago

Each link on digg stay on the homepage for approx. 2-5 hours (depending on the time of the day), there are roughly 50-60 links on the frontpage a day. It makes sense that slashdot is likely to send you traffic throughout the day at more or less same pace. In case of digg, even after it gets removed from the front page a story can move to the "top 10 list" for the nest 10+ hours which sends huge amount of traffic.

Speaking from personal experience, I have seen digg send traffic from 5k to 60k in a day. Here is a recent example: http://imgur.com/NWAWG.png google analytic roughly shows the same traffic numbers.

electromagnetic• 17 years ago

A high bounce rate isn't necessarily bad, as it is accepted for social media sites. However a bounce rate of 90% with 5,000+ hits, still means 500 users don't bounce and stand a chance of becoming potential long-term readers/users/whatever and for a new or small site, that can give you a good jump on word-of-mouth growth.

techiferous• 17 years ago

Thanks for sharing!

Here's what my analytics looked like when someone submitted my http://www.patiencepractice.com site to Digg: http://imgur.com/p3gpd

I don't have my server set up to alert me when it starts getting higher traffic. Does anyone have any good tips on how to do that? I'm running this on Linode.

chaosmachine• 17 years ago

Since we're sharing, here's my experience with the Reddit front page:

http://blamcast.net/articles/speed-up-drupal

Side note: check out the referrer list image. See HN in there? That's how I discovered this place :)

codexon2• 17 years ago

Here's my analytics during my most popular submission reaching 30k views in 1 day.

http://www.codexon.com/temp/traffic.png

What may also interest you is that I earned around 50 cents in advertisements during this increase of traffic. I can't legally tell you the other statistics because of the AdSense TOS.

I had hoped that I could at least sustain the cost of the hosting through ads, but I don't know how I am making pennies on mountains of traffic while everyone else claims they are making $5+ a day.

ddemchuk2• 17 years ago

Your ads might not be well targeted enough/have low CPC rates.

Plus, your site seems to be aimed at techies. Most of us don't ever click ads so it's tough to monetize that way.

Nice blog though :-)

mrcharles• 17 years ago

Just for the record, this isn't my site, but a friends'. Posting it here cause it seems in line with common topics.

fudgie• 17 years ago

http://www.fudgie.org/slashdotted.html - a recording of the traffic glTail got from Slashdot after it was announced. If I remember correctly, it got a bit over 4000 requests/minute at the 'worst'.

Google Analytics data of being slashdotted and posted here.

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