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Traffic Breakdown of a Front Page Surge

Traffic Breakdown of a Front Page Surge

by intervolz·Feb 17, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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The Take

The post actually delivers useful, concrete numbers — hour-by-hour hits, peak/plateau duration, and referral spread — plus the practical ops note that a home server behind Cloudflare survived ~60k visits. Good, pragmatic reading for anyone planning a Show HN drop; I wanted more on bot-filtering and raw data access or interactive charts, but the timeline and deployment notes are the real takeaways.

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Indie developers, makers, hobbyist ops, and anyone running a small public website

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Breakdown of traffic from my Sol LeWitt Show HN post last week. 69 points, ~60k visitors, 10-hour spike, referral spread analysis.

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