XahLee.info, Hacker News Traffic Effect (2013)

some traffic report when a site is hit by Hacker News, Reddit, or other. Usually, when one of these sites mentions a article, others might as well, including Twitter. So, the traffic isn't just from one site.

• 2013-08-30
• Jeff Atwood's CODE Keyboard Review
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6302203
• 11k views

• 2013-08-12
• Voice Input for Programing 📺 (year 2013)
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6203805

per day traffic:

• 12.4k
• 25.3k
• 9.7k
• 4.2k
• 7.7k

(normal traffic is about 1k) The traffic above also includes from other major sites, including reddit, in particular, some Chinese news site “csdn.net” with translated article.

• 2013-06-13
• 5.5k visits.
• History of Key Shortcuts: Emacs, vim, WASD
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6056420

• 2013-04-12
• 4.5k visits.
• Apache Rewrites History: Why is it Named Apache? (2013)
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536134