A Story On The DIGG Home Page- What’s The Traffic Like?
April 25, 2007 by Pablo Palatnik
Ever wanted to get a story to the Digg home page? Easy task, it is not. I’ll share some stats with you about a story I got to the homepage yesterday. I know a lot of you wonder, What kind of traffic can it really bring? You might know if you’ve already been submitting stories, etc.
Let me give you quick stats on this particular story (every story will obviously perform different):
GOOGLE ANALYTICS Data (javascript)
for 4/25:
22,381 unique visitors
26,794 page views
84.33% of all site traffic from Digg.com
traffic from:
digg.com – 19,997 visitors (Google Cache) – 1,061 visitors
Basic Digg count based on information I have:
4/25 12:25 – 1 Digg / Submitted story
12:48PM – 18 Diggs
12:51PM – 20 Diggs
4:28PM – 83 Diggs
4:28PM – On Digg Home Page
4:30PM – 124 Diggs
4:30PM – 200 Diggs
4:50PM – 239 Diggs
5:31PM – 420 diggs
5:32PM – 430 diggs
7:30PM – 700 Diggs (est)
10:30PM – 900 Diggs (est)
11:30PM – 1000 Diggs (est)
4/26 7:40AM – 1205 Diggs
**PAGE HAS NOW BEEN VIEWED BY OVER 16,000 VISITORS & OVER 1,260 DIGGS.
