[Oculus]

An interesting titbit of information from this post is the approx. # of visitors reaching the front page of HN can get you:

"BlinkLink managed to get about 50k pageviews against 17k visitors"

I'm not sure on how much other sources (Reddit, Twitter) contributed to that number though.

[minimaxir]

From my articles that have hit the top 10, 50k pageviews with a little bit of virality seems reasonable.

You can roughly estimate the amount of visitors on a front-page HN post by 1 point :: 100 unique visitors. In this case, (17k visitors on 138 points), visitors viewed the page 3-4 times, which is unusual.

[clarky07]

>visitors viewed the page 3-4 times, which is unusual. well, this had the bizarre counting effect that had some people refreshing a lot to see how fast it was going down or if anyone was tweeting it to make it go back up etc.