In the month of april my blog was on digg.com twice: Dear AMD and Getting involved with Ubuntu.

Interesting notes:

  • Dreamhost is my current host, and did not suffer from the digg effect
  • I got more traffic from people linking to the “No you can’t have a pony” pic than from digg
  • Stumble Upon, not digg, was the top referrer
  • Firefox beat IE in page views by roughly 9x
  • Windows XP was the most frequently used OS viewing the page. Windows XP had more views by 1.1x linux views. (Which is pretty darn close to 50/50)
  • Initial digg sends roughly 13k hits during the first day, 6.5k the second day and then exponentially falls off.
  • The traffic from the first digg was much larger, and was on a Saturday. The second digg was on a monday, and gave 5k less hits
  • Google reader appears to be the most used feed reader
  • Comparing stats when not being dugg, site readership is almost exclusively non-windows.

My hats off to dreamhost for working even during the digg effect, despite only paying like $7/month.

Related posts:

  1. Increase driver awareness
  2. Serial port over TCP/IP