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>>aendru+(OP)
> 429 Too Many Requests

Aight, level with me: Is every mastodon server running on a Raspberry Pi?

>>NavinF+ma
This post is on the front of HN. Many a larger website have succumbed to HN's warm embrace.

>>jszymb+rl
Isn't HN pretty small? This post has <400 upvotes over 3 hours. There can't be 1000x that amount of lurkers can there?

>>yreg+6J
HN has millions of page views per day (maybe @dang can give a more accurate and updated number), and things frequently gets reposted elsewhere. Happens many times that things on the frontpage gets brought down to its knees, this wouldn't be the first nor the last.

>>capabl+FN
Source on the millions?

This person says they got 12k visitors over a day:

https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th...

The websites hugged to death by this forum are usually tiny hobby projects.

>>yreg+TP
Not the OP but they were referring to the whole site. So definitely not millions, but the number is probably higher than you think.

From the blog you linked, the number of interest is 18k. 12k are only those with HN referrer headers. In reality, many setup strips that header so you can't track it exactly right. The author did mention they averaged 50 views before.

A big part of it are reposts. From my own submissions, posting to HN resulted in tons of different origins. Public ones like reddit, twitter and private ones like newsletters, dashboard & chat messages. You'll also be surprised by the wide variety of clients people use to access HN.

They also used Google analytics to track the numbers. Most people in HN block it either through the browser or an extension [0]. In reality it's probably double the traffic.

Don't forget to account for scraping & crawling bots. That's another big source of traffic that the author didn't track.

[0] https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-adblockers-missin...