Slashboinged!
Last week, I wrote a story that in 24 hours hit the frontpages of both Digg and Slashdot, with Blog related firepower provided by the mighty Boingboing.net (ranked number 1 in Technorati, when not knocked off the top by Spamblogs).
What would the overall effect be of such a concentrated assault of traffic? Well, let’s check out the main players first:
Digg.com: Ranked 107 in Alexa.
Slashdot: Ranked 172 in Alexa.
Boingboing: Ranked 1,161 in Alexa.I’ve been Dugg and Slashdotted before, but never, er, Boingboinged. And it’s quite an interesting experience to have all three happen within 24 hours of each other.
For now, here’s the bandwidth served up over a four day period:
10/07/06: 3117.11 GB (Digg)
11/07/06: 5232.46 GB (Slashdot, Boingboing, Digg, news sites)
12/07/06: 1078.50 GB (Slashdot, Boingboing reposts, News sites)
13/07/06: 1386.94 GB (Boingboing reposts, news sites)
I’ve only been hit by Digg and Reddit once, and I never saw the amount of traffic that was meantioned here. The most telling thing was how when BoingBoing picked it up, it kept the numbers going (and increasing) for a good long while.
Tags: BoingBoing, Digg, Interesting, Slashdot
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