MetaTalk posts tagged with traffic

Optimum posting time?

pseudostrabismus — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:04:01 -0800

What are the peak hours of MeFi and AskMe? What's the best time (meaning both time of day and day of the week) to post to this site, if you want your post to get tons of traffic and responses? I'm asking because my last two AskMe questions didn't get as many answers as I hoped they might. Both concern phenomena that most users probably have experience with and hypothetically could have weighed in on, but both posts seem to have rolled to a stop with under 20 responses. The questions were read by a lot of people as they were both favourited quite a few times, but I wonder if I'd have gotten more responses if I'd posted at a different time in the week instead of *cringe* Saturday and Sunday evenings. Thanks!

Metafilter Stats: March 2009

waxpancake — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:19:12 -0800

By request, I updated my Metafilter Stats for the first time in two years. User growth, Top 20 lists, and daily stats are all current, as of last week. I can't believe it's been over eight years since I started tracking Metafilter growth. (Metatalk post #283, how quaint!) Anyway, the most amazing thing to me are the Top 20 lists. 11 of the top 20 most commented threads of all time are from last year, including six longer than #1142, an epic thread that ran for 2.5 years as a sub-community. Insane. While everyone's commenting more per thread, it looks like FPPs are staying relatively steady. Only one day from last year broke the top 20 for most FPPs, December 3, 2008.

Merge With Caution

sjuhawk31 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:05:47 -0800

Ask MeFi inspires an author: there's a plethora of traffic-related questions that pop up on the green, but one such question (I'm betting this one) helped to inform a book that's out today. Just giving everyone a moment of MetaPride. This isn't enough for an FPP (I still don't know enough about the FP to make a decent post, apparently, but I've always considered anything that you folks help create to be the best of anything, forget about just the web), but it's certainly worth note.

What do you say to near real-time traffic stats?

mumkin — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:42:01 -0800

This AskMe thread about contributors vs. lurkers reminded me of something I've been meaning to inquire about. A pony named Argus, who sees all users, named and unnamed, and enumerates them with well-manicured hooves. A digital Clever Hans. Or a realtime visitor count, if you prefer. phpBB, for example, has a widget that displays something like "150 users online :: 45 Registered, 105 Guests." It provides a realtime sense of the ebb and flow of both members and non-, lending mass to those shadowy shoulders that we're rubbing up against and giving vague form to the invisible, silent crowd of The Unregistered. Seems like it would be a meaningful set of numbers to display on the blue, up where total number of members appears now. Heck, might this metric already exist on the administrative dashboard? Could we have that, or would it violate some long-held norms, be too resource-intensive, or reveal more about site traffic to potential advertisers than is desirable? Would the number of lurkers be too frightening to behold? Rough numbers would be fine—no need to poll every minute—just often enough to approximate the size of the madding throng in whose midst we wander.

I'm overwhelmed

matty — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:25:35 -0800

I loves me some Metafilter and AskMe - but I can't keep up! I use Google Reader to keep things nice and condensed, but if I go more than a full work day without checking in on the Blue and the Green posts seems to easily creep over the 100+ mark. The deluge is kind of diluting the whole Metafilter experience for me 'cause it's starting to feel like there's too much to keep up with. Anybody out there use any tricks or methodologies to keep their required Meta-reading under control? I'm glad I'm not an admin! disclaimer - this is not one of those 'please limit the posts' posts, as I'm all for them. I'm just looking for a way to keep things more manageable.

Sidebar nomination

Methylviolet — Fri, 25 May 2007 09:42:24 -0800

Wowee what a fascinating comment. Sidebarable?

Who's Linking to you, linking to me

Jezztek — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:07:26 -0800

NoBiggieCuriosityFilter: I run a t-shirt website, and I've noticed a significant bump in traffic today coming in from this askme post I made a while ago. While I normally get a few randoms in from MeFi a day, this seems significantly larger then usual, which I can only assume is because someone somewhere else is linking to that ask me question and generating traffic for me second hand. I'm really just curious about it, and am wondering if any of the admins would mind taking a quick look at where they are coming from for me. If not, no Biggie.

Would it be possible to make MeFi traffic stats public?

Bodyguard — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:56:02 -0800

Would MetaFilter consider sharing detailed Public Traffic Stats?

This appears to be the strong trend among the top Technoratti Blogs - and SEO blogs.

http://seoptimization.blog.com/1221628/

It would be fascinating to view and discusse where new users are coming from.
What post attract search engine traffic & keywords
What geo-locations are sending viewers during a given time

In previous years there were very general stats showing growth - But something more intriguing could be considered

Holocaust denier's website

matteo — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:54:23 -0800

If you click the main link in jonson's post, you go to a known Holocaust denier's website -- maybe you're at work and you don't want to do that, or maybe Holocaust denial is illegal in your country. Or maybe you just don't want to give traffic to the guy. Anyway, the link is there, and it's not tagged as nsfw.

Why all the crashes?

empath — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0800

Why is metafilter so slow and crash-prone? I know it gets a huge amount of traffic, but what causes the regular outages? Do you guys need a new server or what? I can't think of another major site that experiences as much downtime as metafilter does. (i'm not criticizing, I know how difficult it is to run a site of this scale... just curiouis)

Why has MetaFilter traffic spiked so fast?

bru — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 07:52:35 -0800

Does anyone know why MeFi has almost doubled its reach during the past 2 weeks? Just curious.

Traffic data? Just curious

Ryvar — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:28:12 -0800

An interesting #mefi-debate prompts the following question: what is the average monthly traffic moved by MeFi/MeTa/AskMe every month? Any outstanding recent monthly highs/lows?

Posting links directly to download sites

xtian — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:10:48 -0800

Etiquette question. I posted this AM about a small software application. After posting it occurred to me that the link was directly to the download site version tracker and not to the software author site. I felt this may have been bad etiquette on my part and I followed up with a comment redirecting to the author site.

My question, Is it bad etiquette to post an interest link to a download site (such as version tracker)? Presumably because many Metafiler viewers will click through to the download site just to "look" or follow the link and thus adding unnecessary traffic to this site.

On a side note, it would be useful to edit a post after posting it , any plans to implement this functionality?

130,000 hits per day! (2003)

y2karl — Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:37:49 -0800

Say no more about the overload, in fact I rather welcome having something like 130.000 hits in one day, something to brag about in the pub when things get a bit dull. That was after my link crashed Johnny Spencer's artchive of Jamaican and American R&B on the 23rd. In disbelief, I wrote and asked for real? and got: 23rd, June = 133,130 hits or 2.2 GB bandwidth. I had no idea we had that much impact.

How much traffic does MetaFilter get?

Pretty_Generic — Sat, 07 Dec 2002 06:41:02 -0800

All I want to know is -- roughly how much traffic does MetaFilter get? There must be a fair amount of people unable to become members.

What effect does being mentionned on MeFi have, trafficwise?

MiguelCardoso — Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:00:04 -0800

Inexactly how much, numerically and psychologically, does a link on MetaFilter affect the traffic to the blog or web site referred? Is its effect transient or does it, so to speak, carry on? Also, just how many hits does MetaFilter get nowadays? [After reading stavrosthewonderchicken's interesting remarks on hits, pageviews and other popularity statistics and his comment on owillis's web site about how being linked on "The Mothership" makes traffic soar.]

does the site seem slow to anybody lately

moz — Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:52:21 -0800

does the site seem slow to anybody lately, or is it me? there are long waits when i click on comments, or basically anything which loads from the database.

Any ideas about distributing the load?

MiguelCardoso — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 08:19:52 -0800

It would help a great deal if we had traffic news for MeFi. Timezones are all-important. Us Europeans tend to post when all you American members are asleep.
To save bandwidth, perhaps we could all try to post whenever traffic is slower.
There seem to be three definite waves: European, East Coast and West Coast. If we all fell into our appropriate slots - it feels mean to barge in on you Americans because this is an American site, after all - perhaps we could speed up access for all members and readers.
Any ideas about distributing the load?

With traffic dying down, is it possible to re-open the front page to members?

dogmatic — Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:14:18 -0800

With traffic dying down, is it possible to re-open the front page to members?

one million pageviews in a single month

mathowie — Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:14:35 -0800

MetaFilter tops one million pageviews in a single month.

Stats for July barely squeak past the elusive 1 million mark, but the site finally makes it. I usually don't care too much about the stats (they're mostly done for the sake of curiousity with regards to referrers and bandwidth use), but I was amazed to see such a large number at the "requests for pages" total.

Thanks everyone for contributing and visiting.

Should we run ads?

Neale — Mon, 04 Jun 2001 19:29:17 -0800

Okay, we've discussed it before, but now having looked at the stats for the last couple of months, ADs are a real possibility. Last I checked the average AD payout was $1 ever 1000 page views. Now, with MeFi getting over 5,000,000 a month, that's $5000 a month in revenue. That could keep Matt happy all year round and MeFi up for life. Comments?

The site's acting like a slug today.

alan — Mon, 21 May 2001 12:24:37 -0800

The site's acting like a slug today. Is it just a whole bunch of Monday morning Kaycee traffic?