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I actually wonder how many request/s one gets from being on the top of HN.


not very high

a previous post of mine got 500 points and stay #1 for a few hours.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22410448

traffic from it looks like this

https://tuananh.net/2020/03/02/traffic-from-top-post-on-hack...


> Traffic stats on Cloudflare seems a bit inflated with the unique visitors at 36k. Maybe they do count bots as well there.

First screenshot looks like Google Analytics to me; I'd say it's more likely a lot of us have blocked it and Cloudflare's number is more accurate.


My "Show HN" post was in the bottom half of the HN home page for less than an hour. Traffic to the site was roughly 100 times greater than its current levels (by bandwidth):

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rik-roots-50349611_in-case-an...


"antirez 2 hours ago. 52347 views. "


Those are the ones that got through all the way, or at least the ones that got picked up by the view counter. Not the people that got error or timed-out responses.




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