I got digged - The digg effect | .: ShaolinTiger

I got digged - The digg effect

January 20th, 2006 by ShaolinTiger at 11:59 AM MYT - 2,666 views

So I woke up this morning bleary eyed to check my sites/stats/etc as I normally do and I noticed quite a lot of users online..

This is normal though, sometimes I get hit by trackback spambots and have 50-60 users online, but this time, they were legitimate, and all looking at the same story - How to use RSS feeds on your Wordpress site.

RSS for Wordpress

Then I thought hmm...so I checked my sitemeter, and low and behold I had a whole load of referrals from digg!

digged

Hmm so I checked the traffic for today, yup a massive spike!

digg effect

And there I was, my face on the front page of digg and my story on my little blog

digg front page

I've seen other people get 35,000 hits in a day from the digg effect, so hopefully the traffic a) will keep coming and b) won't crash the server Seems pretty steady so far.

Something like the Slashdot effect but I think not so extreme

Anyway here's the digg URL:

http://digg.com/programming/How_to_use_RSS_Feeds_on_your_Wordpress_Site

Tags: digg, digg-effect, geek, sitemeter, Traffic, wordpress

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14 Comments so far

SpyMy.com on January 20th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
Using Unknown browser

ShaolinTiger gets digged on Wordpress story...

The Wordress RSS feature on Kung-fu Geekery made the front page of digg.com at some time during the night and is currently undergoing the flood of traffic known as the digg effect!...
Jee on January 20th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP

Bravo!

Just make sure your current hosting can handle the traffic surge
Wingz on January 20th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP

wuah lucky gwailo
Pat on January 20th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP

Lol! Guilty of assisting and abetting - thats what you get for introducing me to digg and spymy man!

Oh hey, enjoy the hols and have a good time up north (Vik says hi)...
__earth on January 20th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP

u lucky bastard.
Dabido (Teflon) on January 20th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 on Windows XP

Now that's a phallic looking graph!!!

Your post has given the internet a hard on!
alexallied on January 20th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP

not bad at all. enjoy the traffic
spiller on January 20th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP

another reason to partay tonite, yay!
KY on January 21st, 2006 at 10:09 am
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5 on Windows Server 2003

bandwidth exceeded not yet?
Persian Kitty on January 21st, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP

Hi Handsome,

I wanna hump your leg.
ShaolinTiger on January 22nd, 2006 at 12:39 am
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP

Hosting handled it fine, didn't get much traffic though as I was digged about 10-11pm I think, I've seen spikes of 35,000 unique hits on some diggs, I only got about 3000

Wingz: Don't confuse luck with skill.

Pat: Thanks man, see you when I'm back.

Dabido: Yah ROFL, didn't look at like that.

KY: Nah I'm not hosting Suan any more, plenty of bandwidth now
Andy C » Burns night on January 26th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Using WordPress MU

[...] 2. The Digg effect [...]
Planet Malaysia on September 21st, 2006 at 5:54 pm
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Linux

I was get temporary suspended by Web Hosting company when I get digged. Here it's:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Bandwidth_Monitoring_Tools
Burns night » Andy C on November 10th, 2006 at 5:12 pm
Using WordPress 2.0.4

[...] 2. The Digg effect [...]