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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by pg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @02:59PM (#728561)
I stopped linking to HN from essays several months ago. I don't want the community to grow too fast.
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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by robg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @03:28PM (#728630)
What's the traffic difference between your highest visited essays and HN?

I found YC and HN through your essays. I'm wondering if that's a more general phenomenon.

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by pg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:27PM (#728760)
On an ordinary weekday, HN gets about 3x as many unique visitors as my site: 33k vs 11k. When a new essay is very popular, my traffic spikes up to 30 or 40k a day, or in rare cases over 50k.
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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by robg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:38PM (#728785)
Thanks! As a comparison, how's this essay looking today? I only saw the link because it was on the front page, but I think that's one of their most popular blogs. Is the NY Times as powerful as claimed in PR circles?
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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by pg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:52PM (#728815)
I don't know; Yahoo Store only updates stats once a day.

If I used Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com) I could see stats in real time!

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by trefn on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @08:47PM (#729209)
feel free to sign up =)
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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by alanthonyc on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @03:34PM (#728638)
Agreed.

As much as I like the fact that ideas coming from this site are spreading, I would also like people to work at least as much as I did to find HN.

A direct link from the NYT would be way too easy.

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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by weaksauce on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @03:39PM (#728653)
Has the growth rate been fairly steady or has it increased as of late?
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Re:Read This If You Hate Meetings by pg on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:21PM (#728744)
http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic.28jul09.png

Traffic spiked during applications and dipped at the beginning of summer, as it always does, but you can see there's secular growth mixed with the seasonal variation.

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