All the traffic you ever wanted-- and then some

True stories of web traffic spikes and how sites survived them-- or didn't. Plus how-tos for high bandwidth challenges

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Last updated 7-7-07

"...outgoing bandwidth usage spiked to nearly 9 gigabytes in a single day..."

"Switch to an external image provider."

"Never serve content that isn't HTTP compressed."

-- Reducing Your Website's Bandwidth Usage; March 05, 2007

"Folks, this is free bandwidth!"

-- Getting the Most Out of PNG; March 07, 2007

"Peak traffic from Digg can send anything up to 10,000 visitors an hour to your site..."

"Modern Life is a text based site, relatively lightweight, but a couple of Diggs per month will still got me through around 30Gb of data transfer in December."

-- Digg and the Mob Mentality Or, what to expect from people if you get Dugg; 31 December, 2006

"...my site hit the front page of digg.com and for the first time the site exceeded 600,000 hits in a day which caused the site to go down for about an hour. Thankfully the host upgraded my site to the top hosting package so we are back up! Digg away!"

" -- predatorix.com; February 25th, 2007

"How to keep your site up when 20,000 people all decide in the same hour that the content you've been writing for months is suddenly interesting."

-- How to: Survive the Digg Effect (The Ultimate Guide)

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"Digg Traffic is more than 3 times Less Likely to Click on an Ad than Google Traffic"

-- Digg Traffic v/s Google Traffic - A Chitika Analysis Report; April 9th, 2007

-- Clamping Down on Website Traffic (TreeHugger) by Mark Ontkush; 06.12.07

"Once the story hit the front page on Digg I was seeing over a thousand hits per hour."

"Digg brings in the hits, but StumbleUpon has the legs."

-- Bookmarking Effect Netscape vs. Digg vs. Stumbleupon « Blogging Explorer-The Blog Bible [original URL, now broken, "http://probuzz.wordpress.com/2007/01/14/bookmarking-effect-netscape-vs-digg-vs-stumbleupon/"]; January 14th, 2007

"When my blog hits the front page of Digg, page views typically increase by a factor of six or seven times."

-- The Top Ten Stupid Ways to Hinder Market Adoption; January 29, 2007

"Since I logged off last night around midnight, 12 hours later, over 23,000 people have been to this blog."

-- I Don't Digg Being Dugg; January 20th, 2007

-- Making the Front Page of Digg and Reddit (and $16.56): A Synopsis; March 27, 2007

-- How Not To Deal With A Digg

-- Digg effect took down your website. How to come back online with only a few lines of code.; June 19, 2007

-- Reddit sends more, Diggers read more. | Tech Op/Ed; June 6, 2007

"Success: Reddit (391 votes), Metafilter (112 Faves), Digg (4200) diggs, Del.icio.us (1700 Saves)."

-- Statistics by Hour, Sunday 1/14/07