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Ask HN: How much traffic does HN get?

12 points by matt_daemon ↗ HN
General question around how many unique visitors HN gets on average per day?

Or if others have examples of their articles being on the front page and how many hits they received.

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perilunar
See this comment from @dang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454140
mooreds
Great find!

But a depressing comment from dang is in that thread:

> That's my theory too—there's a cap on interesting content.

tjchear
I actually have a different hypothesis. There's no cap on interesting stories, but rather there's a cap on how long a submission can be noticed. The more submissions there are being posted, the faster existing submissions drop off the first couple new post pages, where people might see them. If a post can't stay long enough to be noticed, people might just elect to hold off posting until the new post space becomes less crowded.
mooreds
I am not sure about this, because if so, then you'd see submissions at a constant rate.

But they tend to cluster around business hours Pacific: https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective

I've posted on Sunday and the new page is super slow then.

It might be a function of the number of submissions + the number of people available to upvote them (both increase during the work week and decrease on the weekend).