On: Latest HN traffic stats: 100k uniques on weekdays,...

[elliottcarlson]

What better way to avoid all the compete/quantcast speculative threads than to just post the numbers. Wish we could get that from more hosts for comparative reasons.

Any one know what conversations may have caused the massive spikes on uniques?

[pg → elliottcarlson]

The biggest relative spike was when the HN thread about _why became the de facto Internet condolence page.

[Mz → pg]

Can anyone give me the link to this? I've had an extremely eventful week/3 months and I have no idea what this is but suspect I would like to see it.

Thanks.

[zck → Mz]

It's this link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773106 from 591 days ago. It's the spike in August 2009, approximately doubling the unique IP count. It's less impressive for pageview count, though.

[Mz → zck]

Thanks.

[GFischer → elliottcarlson]

Maybe not a conversation, but an event or mention on mass media that made people interested in HN?

For example, I first heard of HN at an event here in Uruguay (a well known entrepreneur, Nicolas Jodal, mentioned it on his keynote). Probably several other people at the event checked it out too.