Digg Sent Me Over 197,000 Visitors in ONE DAY!

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I may have mentioned this in passing before, about one of my sites making it to the front page of digg. But I thought I would do a full follow up post for all the readers and let them know a bit about what type of traffic the digg actually brought me and whether or not I am happy with having spent over 40 GB of hosting on that one fatihful day?

Site:

Let’s first talk about the site and what it was that actually got dugg? I am not going to post the link to the actual digg article here, but if you are smart enough you should be able to find out which one of the sites was mine that made it to the front page of digg on the day that I posted about.

One of my more intrepid readers actually had already figured out which site it was on the first day! Another two had actually emailed me congratulation me on the sites success before I had even posted about it. You guys know me too well.

The type of site that I had used to make it to the frontpage of digg was a free online image host. I had uploaded a funny picture to the site and submitted the picture to digg. Less than 24 hours later my story had hit the front page. You could consider the picture to be controversial or just plain mean. But it had garnered over 600 comments and over 4,600 diggs. The article is currently on page 4 of the most dugg stories in the past 30 days. 4,600 diggs is quite alot and it did lead to a crazy amount of traffic.

Traffic:

The first real day of traffic we saw an amazing 197,000 unique visitors. That is an incredible amount for any website, but for a image host to sustain that kind of traffic on the first day is just amazing.

As you can see from the screenshot I was mistaken and the actual amount of uniques was 179,000. I think the number of hits is actually at 32 Million. Total amount of bandwidth used was 40 gigs. At this point I have to give props to my host, this site was hosted on a shared server and the site only lagged maybe 3-4 times other than that nothing. In the digg comment you see a total of 10 complaints about the sites speed but that was to be expected on a shared server. When docstoc.com went live they were down for their first day because there site got dugg, techcrunched, and a story on the site dugg as well. So my little site actually made me quite proud!

Here are some more screenshots:

As you can see from the country referrals the traffic was probably the best that you could get because it was not coming from countries that advertisers do not want to pay cash for!

Lets take a look at the referral logs:

Sorry about the crap cropping, but I did not want to resize this image. As you can see more of the traffic came from Digg, but for site that has only been for half a month getting 600 visitors from GooGle is no small feat either.