hrmpf.com — 15,000 hits from Digg in 24hrs and all he makes is $9 from adsense. Good analysis of who visits from Digg (screen res, browser, OS)- some surprising results and he reckons Steve Jobs and Bill Gates visited his site- all this by looking at his logs and Google Analytics
Jan 24, 2006 View in Crawl 4
chadellJan 25, 2006
Most Diggers are broke bloggers, they enjoy bringing everyone to their level.
redwardsJan 25, 2006
I wonder if the < 10 seconds think could actually be firefox prefetching? Dunno how that would register (dunno how he gets a length of stay estimate)
nights0223Jan 25, 2006
Just because the site's down, doesn't mean people will stop Digging the story! Don't you just love people that don't even click on the link?
Closed AccountJan 25, 2006
For those not reading the above comments and still complaining that the site is down: Here is a link to the coralized version of the page. Read, Enjoy, and don't laugh at someone's site not holding up. :)<a class="user" href="http://hrmpf.com.nyud.net:8090/wordpress/44/the-digg-effect">http://hrmpf.com.nyud.net:8090/wordpress/44/the-digg-effect</a>
ronaldpoiJan 25, 2006
excellent story!
lightn899Jan 25, 2006
Perhaps there are people who want to see Digg fail, so they Dos the frontpage stories.
Closed AccountJan 25, 2006
The digg effect is highly overrated. This article proves in. I have a client who has been on the front page of digg 4 times now, and each time the server stoop up with no issues. Even where there was heavy multimedia content.I think the digg effect is so popular because there are so many s**tty hosts out there using decade-old Celerons, laughable connections, and dismal RAM. Any site on a decent server should have absolutely no problem standing up to even the worst "digg effect".