Speaking of the Best Buy Cease & Desist situation, here’s what the traffic looked like on Laughing Squid during that time period. The result of extensive blog and media coverage, 2 front page Diggs and a Slashdot mention.
On December 12th our blog hit a record high of 222,523 views in one day.
These stats were generated using the excellent WordPress Stats plugin.
A special shout-out to Donncha O Caoimh and his indispensable WordPress Super Cache plugin, which helped keep our server running smoothly during the traffic spike.
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Wow Scott! That’s a huge traffic spike. So glad the plugin helped too, mind if I quote this post?
Donncha, sure thing, feel free to quote, link or use the sceenshot.
Well Scott I was one of those hits. I knew you had no issues (the C&D didn’t have a leg to stand on) but even I’m surprised at that much of a jump. I assume even broken down, most of that spike was all for the one article? Or was it also for the follow up too?
Patrick, it was the combined traffic from the C&D post, the apology as well as the original posts on the IE Best Buy polo shirt and the IE Best Buy Mission.
Might I ask what are the server stats? :D
I’m just trying to understand what 200.000 visits really mean. :D