Huge increase of traffic on HN?

1 points by yoha 11y ago ↗ HN

I have just noticed that compete.com shows an overwhelming augmentation of unique visitors on Hacker News in the last months.

https://siteanalytics.compete.com/news.ycombinator.com

I have not found much in HN submission history and I am not sure how to read this data:

* is compete.com data reliable?

* could this be artificial? (e.g. DDoS)

* is this related to a particular event?

* does 1M unique visitors makes sense?

This also may be relevant: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=hacker%20news

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dang 11y ago ↗

That's interesting. Roughly how do they get their data? That graph looks nice, but we had a lot more than 0 users in May, so I'm not sure they're measuring a real trend. Are these supposed to be daily visitors?

Last I checked, our numbers show around 250k unique IPs a day and 2.5M a month. This has grown quite a bit recently; Sam tweeted about it the other day.