Pick A Card, Any Card (Internet Math)

Submitted by stephen black on Thu, 2006-03-30 14:38. :: Internet Marketing

Hmmm.. I was very surprised to learn that today my article reached number one on digger, according to Todd. Also according to Todd, the article attracted 1500 visitors and caused the server to stand still. Great for the site, bad for the server.

Um...if my article was responsible for 1500 visitors, why does the counter presently show only 113 people read my article? 

Could someone explain this to me?

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Crimson
hmm
Submitted by Crimson on Wed, 2006-04-05 02:31.

is that 1500 visitors at the same time or over the course of the day?

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ToddDickerson
traffic backfire
Submitted by ToddDickerson on Thu, 2006-03-30 16:22.

Stephen I finally had the problem you reported w/ comments disappearing... just wrote you a long reply about my guess as to what it is... but basically we had another user get dugg and he got ~300 page views w/ much less traffic from digg.com. I think what happened was the mysql server overloaded and refused to render any pages BUT the server was still counting and recording the 'requests' for pages... so thousands tried to get to the page but not many actually did... sorry... its my/the servers fault. We'll be ready next time.

This is what they call 'the digg effect' - instantly crashing servers b/c of so much traffic at once.

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