<story><title>Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/17/analytics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>Adding another data point here:&lt;p&gt;I had a very good post here on HN in the last year (about 1600 upvotes), and this was the only place where I shared it or saw it posted.  I know a few people discussed it on Twitter, too, so a good fraction of my traffic was likely &amp;quot;sourced from Twitter&amp;quot; by these metrics.&lt;p&gt;Per Cloudflare, I had about 180k visitors during the 2-day period when that blog post was on the front page here, and another 60k during the following week.  I don&amp;#x27;t have any trackers on the blog so I don&amp;#x27;t know the traffic sources or any other more granular breakdown.  At the time, my baseline was about 400 visitors a day, which I attribute to RSS feeds and bots.  I know that Cloudflare overestimates unique visitors, since it is just using layer 3-4 factors, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure it overestimates by that large of a factor.&lt;p&gt;I would assume that the HN impact for his post was likely underestimated thanks to secondary sharing effects.  A lot of links go from HN to Twitter, Reddit, and other communities, where they get second chances at &amp;quot;going viral.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Analytics: Hacker News v.s. a tweet from Elon Musk</title><url>https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/17/analytics/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>osamagirl69</author><text>Nice post, that is a very interesting breakdown of traffic:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Twitter: 721k (after elon tweeted him)&lt;p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;Direct &amp;#x2F; None: 132k (this includes traffic from Mastodon)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hacker News: 49.5k (18th all time highest ranked post)&lt;p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;other: ~60k</text></comment>