OMB Breaks All Time Readership Record!
Saturday was an eventful day for One Man’s Server… It had the unenviable task of keeping up with a record day of visitors!
In one 24 hour period over 115,000 people visited the site. The vast majority as a result of reaching the “Most Popular in 24 hours” page on Digg for people visiting the 13 Billboards post (over 2,500 Diggs so far). I’d like to pass along a special thanks to SuxMonkey for kick-starting that Digg effort. I would also like to send out a special thanks to Roy Kaldung for optimizing the heck out of the server so it can keep up with all of the demand.
I’ve also attached the MyBlogLog stats page for Saturday showing a detail of some of the top incoming and outgoing traffic (Just select the thumbnail for the full sized view). Keep in mind that these stats are not entirely accurate, but are within about 20% accuracy. The true visitor count was likely between 135,000-150,000 visitors.
So, I would just like to take a moment to once again thank all of my regular readers. I find all of this to be very exciting, and of course it wouldn’t have been possible without you!
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Congratulations! I just discovered your blog and really enjoy some of your off-the-wall content. Will bookmark it and come back for more!
congratilations John, this is just awsome. Actually I should file a case against you for steeling time. I really appreciate the info’s, fun and the way you run thar blog.
great
Rhoody
…. That’s more than 1/3rd of the entire population of Iceland. Hat tip to you John.
115,000 in 24 hours?! :O
For many people that is a decent target for a month, but a day! Congratulations John, I think the saying it true that content is king :)
All I can say it wow :o
I’m happy with my 3,000 visitors a day, can’t wait to break 10 grand, let along 100 grand.
Awesome and well deserved, you have a very interesting website here and we are many who enjoy this site on a daily basis. I have turned several of my friends on to this site as well. Very different from your regular run-of-the-mill blog.
Hats off to Roy Kaldung as well… managing to keep the server up through that is impressive.
Kim:)
That’s completely amazing, John! I can’t even imagine it! My two ‘highest-trafficked” sites get about 30 a day! LOL!
I’m honored to be a part of your community!
That’s impressive that your server kept up with it! That post was also pretty worthy of getting onto Digg, though. Good job.
Fantastic job John! My personal record is merely 10-15% of that and I was blown away by it.. I couldn’t imagine how frantic you were with trying to keep things up and running – damned Digg effect :o