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May 13, 2004
Traffic
Yesterday's news produced a high traffic day. Was I imagining things or were speeds down across the network? InstaPundit reports over 200,000 page views yesterday (4547 at the Flea) while Andrew Sullivan reports over 100,000 visits and lgf reports 50,000 unique visitors (2519 at the Flea). This may suggest the Flea is getting around 5% of the traffic of the big blogs.
And then... Argghhh!!! reports on traffic from "Wahabism Delanda Est!"
And then... It is a Debbyelanche here at the Flea. I sent a note to my web host to ask if a denial of service attack was underway (seriously). Updates to follow...
Posted by Ghost of a flea at May 13, 2004 08:29 AM
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Webstat went out on me and declared I had "exceeded my monthly quota."
I'm sending traffic your way too - once I realized that most of the hits for the Berg video were from the USA, I decided to help the seekers a hand for all the reasons you so beautifully stated in your Truth post.
I hope I haven't caused you a problem. I'm really clueless about domain/server thingies and what limits they might have.
Posted by: Debbye at May 13, 2004 04:31 PM
That blogger and a gentleman, Dean Esmay, made a good choice with Verve Host. I have upgraded my package since I first moved as part of the blogspot exodus of last year but I don't think I have come close to the monster traffic they give me. Might be an idea to keep a closer eye on it though...
Posted by: Flea at May 13, 2004 05:48 PM
I have a doctoral quantitative methods course under my belt believe it or not. And with my brain now activated I see that two of those three stats show 2.5%. Ish. So let's call it from 2-5% of the traffic. Frankly, if I am pulling that much relative to the InstaMan then I am happy.
Posted by: Flea at May 13, 2004 05:57 PM
I think there is something afoot. I went from roughtly 500 visits a day to 850 for no reason. I have not written on the news (too saddening and maddening) and was away on vacation for the first part of the increased visiting. Is there any chance that this is based on enhanced bot-o-tronics?
Posted by: Alan at May 14, 2004 07:07 AM
The bots might be restless! But my thinking is a flood of people went looking for news and commentary from blogs by preference to the broadcast and print stuff. People are angry and nothing on television reflected that anger or offered concrete ways to address it.
Posted by: Flea at May 14, 2004 10:25 AM