[philipwalton]

When one of my articles made it to the #2 spot on Hacker News, I was watching my Google Analytics Real-Time stats pretty closely. It got as high as ~700 people on at one point. (Here's the submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062761)

[bobfunk]

Our recent post on the Webpop blog about a/b testing a puppy photo (http://www.webpop.com/blog/2013/04/16/can-a-puppy-sell-a-cms) got to #2 as well.

Sat at a pretty constant 250 online visitors for hours. Pretty sure the brief peak must have been close to 700 as well.

Fortunately Webpop is built to handle that kind of traffic, so we never had to worry about the site crumbling under the load...

[philipwalton]

Yeah, I'd be curious to see traffic data from people who got to various spots on the front page and see what trends emerge.

Though, now I'm remembering that the post was also on /r/webdev and /r/web_design, so that skews things a bit.

[sw007]

700 people on the site at one time? Or 700 for the day? 700 at the same time is incredible (to me)! You must have been nervous about your server. When we hit 250 we panicked we would go down!

[philipwalton]

700 at the same time. 40K in the 24 hour period after it made the front page. Yeah, I was not expecting that.

Luckily, I had recently converted the site from WordPress to Jekyll and was hosting it on Github pages, so I didn't worry too much about the load.