You probably chose the worst time to ask this. Since we implemented the SSL, our analytics have only been picking up pageviews / unique ids for those visiting http:. According to the analytics, we only had a couple hundred visitors today and they were all from google results, external links, and users who access hubski through bookmarks.

I pulled the graph since Jan 1 and follows the pretty consistent pattern that we've been seeing for a while. The peaks compress the height of the graph so it doesn't look like a lot of change even though it is. We get a big hit, we go up a few hundred visits for a week or so after, and then it trickles back down to "normal" levels. The "normal" levels still a bit higher after the peak than before the peak, which means we are retaining a group of users each time.

What's really interesting is the difference in unique visitors on weekends vs weekdays. Our weekends are quite a bit slower than weekdays. I'm not sure what exactly this can tell us about our user base. Perhaps that a lot of our users hang out on Hubski while at work and have better things to do on the weekend? I know that applies to my Hubski habits.

mk may be able to give you the graphs for new users. I know we are over 10k now and it follows a similar step pattern as our visitors graph: slow growth + large jump + slow growth + large jump. I haven't looked at it in terms of exponential vs linear growth or anything.

I look forward to when our stats aren't as reliant on reddit traffic. I want our user base to start growing from a more diverse range. I know we will always get users from reddit because of the similarities but yeah. If you have any ideas on how to do this, let us know. We're obviously opposed to traditional marketing / advertising methods. 1 strong, active user is way better than 100 crappy ones or 1000 clicks.

I wish our analytics were working this week. We haven't had a large reddit invasion but we have been mentioned quite a few times in response to the /r/tech drama. I have no idea how much traffic is being driven though. I saw an interesting comment where someone rediscovered hubski and found their account from a year ago.