HN Front Page Traffic

Has anyone measured how much traffic can being on the front page of HN generate?

My "Show HN" post was in the bottom half of the HN home page for less than an hour. Traffic to the site was roughly 100 times greater than its current levels (by bandwidth):https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rik-roots-50349611_in-case-an...

I had the same thing happen to me recently. A blog I use to anonymously rant against ridiculous things in my industry went from 2, maybe 3 visits per day to over 200,000 when someone randomly posted an article to HN and Reddit. I didn’t notice until 24 hours later. No idea how that person found me or why they decided to post that.

High positioning on HN can presumably drive a lot of traffic?

Would you mind telling how much traffic (e.g. visits per hour from HN) you get when your article hit the front page?

I reached the front page of HN too (though not #1). My rough stats were:20-30,000 new visitorsMost were from USA, with europe and India, China behind.Mobile users were 70-80%I've been on top of HN and Reddit programming before as well. Though you get a boost, the traffic isnt very sticky. From those 30,000 visitors, I got maybe 20-30 email signups. And the traffic dropped in 1-2 days.But there are long term benefits, as the link was then shared by other people on Linkedin, Ch

From 1 to 20 then down to about 3 on average now. I've had my project (https://writeapp.me) on HN a few times but it really went nowhere. Recently however its been featured on MakeUseOf at least twice, Web Appstorm, and a number of other tech/teacher blogs.Before the MakeUseOf article I'd get 3 to 10 hits a day with 1 visitor at a time. After the first MakeUseOf article it went to about 20 at a time for about a day. After that the site has been

This guy knows https://thehftguy.com/2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-p...(he got 20K/day, which for all intent equals zero in my experience)

a bunch of people on twitter were bragging that they got a lot of traffic from this site called hackernews...

I had a blogpost about five years ago that got frontpaged on HN. It had about 300 upvotes. Google Analytics reported it got 10,000 uniques, impressions about twice that (some people browsed the about page and other posts of mine). Then there’s people blocking Google Analytics so the actual metric would be much higher. I was lucky I used a CDN both for HTML and images, otherwise it would be hugged to death.