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insomniasexx  ·  3211 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dog Dang Reddit Links! Stop breaking my happy place! (Data thread)

Hey everyone! It's 1:30am on Saturday (4:30am EST). It's been about 48 hours since the influx.

Our visits from the influx on 6/11 were ~30x our normal visits and we have no idea how many people actually showed up as probably like...we don't know. Also, I have no idea what constitutes a unique visit and how many people we don't track for various reasons (browser addons, etc). Really, all this data is fun to look at but pretty much needs to be a taken with a grain of salt. Plus, a buttload of vistiors / requests didn't go through because the page never fully loaded. For the peak times, the number of actions / requests were like 1000000x higher (again, we have no idea because the site was down / half down for a lot of the time)

Our load times were still way too high, but our bounce rate only slightly increased. Our actions and time spent on the site were above average, which is surprising because typically with large influxes from a referrer results in way higher bounce rates and way lowers actions / time spent on time.

We were linked in ~50 reddit threads but the vast, vast majority of users came from the comment in the askreddit post.

Here's some of the most viewed posts from 6/11

And here's the breakdown of new users on 6/5 (one week ago):

vs 6/11:

vs 6/12: