Five days ago my post about Ubuntu girl was dugg, few folks requested some report, so there it is. The picture above my writings shows a chart of traffic that was brought by story voted 2635 times. Ubuntu girl was one of the most popular stories on the whole Digg service for this day, I guess perceptive analysis might be quite interesting for you.
But let’s start from the beginning, when the story was not yet on the front page. Remark - there were few other posts submitted before, the most successful one was a comprehensive story about Francesca Lee (33 diggs on indicator). And what of it - after the failure of my post about Firefox girl (damn she is so fine) I got used to believe that it’s simply IMPOSSIBLE to get dugg just by submitting new URL to Upcoming Stories. The reason was clear - every hour a CROWD of spammers (bloggers included) submits hundreds of new stories. Also, most of dudes that get their pages dugg have their own large base of readers that acutally use Digg, even sometimes they speak out they just ask people for a Digg on IM (and get banned later because all stories were dugg from the same IP numbers 
). Seemed there’s no way to hit the front page without dirty playings so finally I decided to hang it up. Now imagine my astonishment when I woke up on Thursday (different time zones, you know I’m living in Eastern Europe) and figured out the thousands of visitors on my geeky weblog 
You must be interested in numbers so let’s show them:
- 83,790 unique visits (according to Google Analytics, WP Stats were comparable)
- 128,058 pageviews (readers were also interested in other stories, this is nice)
- 71.94% of visitors were Firefox users (Digg users do use modern browsers, only 14 percents of Internet Errorer)
- 70.68% of visitors were Windows users (read: the message archived its own goal)
Also the post about Ubuntu Girl received 148 blog reactions (according to Technorati) and batch of links from forums, message boards and other more or less social websites (Spanish, French, German, Italian… Wait, there’re even Arabian and Chinese ones!). BTW Reddit and Stumble Upon totally suck, the story got only a few votes there. Guess their users don’t even know what is the thing called Ubuntu Linux. However, I’ve just registered myself on Digg, feel free to connect with me. It will be pretty difficult to participate in community beacuse social bookmarking takes up large amounts of time wich I don’t have recently. Well, this time I’m gonna try, comments on Digg are so amazing 
August 20th, 2007 #
Congrats on hitting the Digg front page, I’ve yet to make it there.
Reddit is a great site too, just a much different scope overall. I’ve been on the Reddit home page four times, and 3 of the 4 were politically-oriented, which is the base of Reddit. (Avg 5-8k users I’d say.)
Stumble Upon is good too, however the volume is significantly less than Reddit and especially Digg.
In a nutshell: Reddit = educated and civilized, Digg = uneducated and uncivilized
August 20th, 2007 #
Not bad at all. It’s via that digg that I found out about this site and it’s allready in my Google Reader
August 21st, 2007 #
Jon: I am afraid I must disagree with you. Community of Reddit seems to be bitten by a bug. Just compare content listed on the front pages - most of dugg stories are noteworthy. That’s why I haven’t been an active user on Digg, it was simply too time absorbing
And what can I see on Reddit? 25 stories, most of them BORING (imho). Also I noticed the news about Alex Kurzem, I think I have seen it before. Indeed, something about two months ago
Supposedly Stumble Upon generates tons of 30-second visits, but I haven’t ever checked it on my own…
Young Crazy Fool:That’s great!
Thanks to the sensation described above now I do have a stronger motivation to publish 3 posts daily. One can say it might be challenging and difficult to achieve, but let’s say I’m prepared and gonna try. The season is calling
August 21st, 2007 #
Glad that you managed to survive the traffic.
August 21st, 2007 #
Marc: Thank you very much, I forgot about it. One of next post will be written about server load and coping with the traffic
August 22nd, 2007 #
I envy you…
August 22nd, 2007 #
[...] Post was inspired by home page improvements coming on Digg, an article published on Pronet Advertising, and a comment written by Jon [...]
August 23rd, 2007 #
Very impressive Bart. How much bandwith did that take you for?
August 23rd, 2007 #
Mutiny Design: You will find the answer in comments to post about GPUs.
September 14th, 2007 #
[...] one month ago my entry about Ubuntu Girl hit the Digg front page, so now is the high time to check out the rankings for “ubuntu girl” within 4 major [...]
December 22nd, 2007 #
go on this way you are going great…
December 23rd, 2007 #
Haha. Thanks, you made my day
January 8th, 2008 #
[...] C’mon guys, if this doesn’t convinced you at all then I really don’t know what to say anymore hehe. Don’t ask me what is the translation on the picture, I really don’t know and I did’nt bother to find it out. By the way, did you know that this linux chick was the one responsible for the Ubuntu craze? Find it out here. [...]
January 11th, 2008 #
Damm that’s a lot!
January 11th, 2008 #
Indeed. And I want more. And more. And more…
January 11th, 2008 #
Everyone does
March 19th, 2008 #
Great post. Gonna connect with you on Digg.
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