{"id":697,"date":"2006-10-11T09:13:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T09:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/11\/this-is-your-blog-on-slashdot\/"},"modified":"2006-10-11T09:13:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T09:13:59","slug":"this-is-your-blog-on-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/11\/this-is-your-blog-on-slashdot\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Your Blog on Slashdot"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, last week’s SAT Challenge rollout<\/a> got picked up by Slashdot, which led to a great big spike in traffic. How big? Well, here’s a graph: <\/p>\n

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“Big deal,” you say, “It’s not that big a spike.”<\/p>\n

Thing is, that’s a semi-log plot. The top of the spike represents almost a factor of twenty more visits than the average for the two weeks before we got slashdotted– 26,103 versus 1,380. That’s why the log plot is the appropriate graph– on a linear scale, you can’t even see the weekly variation in traffic. Look below the fold if you don’t believe me:<\/p>\n

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See what I mean?<\/p>\n

As it stands, even if I don’t get another visit for the rest of the month (say, if I keep talking about Lee Smolin…), this will be the record for the year (53,558 as of 9:16 pm on the 10th). That’s pretty darn impressive.<\/p>\n

Of course, two days after the peak, traffic was pretty much back to normal. The average for the past week is maybe 100-200 visits higher than the pre-slashdot average, and I posted a bunch of stuff this weekend.<\/p>\n

Easy come, easy go. At least it came as a result of a project that Dave and I put some effort into, and not some oddball one-off post about something stupid that I did.<\/p>\n

That was a lot of fun, though (and turned up a bunch of people around campus who read Slashdot…). Now I need to figure out how to make it happen again…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, last week’s SAT Challenge rollout got picked up by Slashdot, which led to a great big spike in traffic. How big? Well, here’s a graph: “Big deal,” you say, “It’s not that big a spike.” Thing is, that’s a semi-log plot. The top of the spike represents almost a factor of twenty more visits… Continue reading This Is Your Blog on Slashdot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}