Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

As promised, here are the results of yesterday's digg.com effect. At the time of this writing, the article had been dugg 995 times. The digg story was posted 1 day + 18 hours ago.

According to my web logs, there have been 6,094 views of the referenced page. Overall, hits were up 26% to 462,746 total site hits yesterday. Page views were up 11.5% percent to 180,306 pages viewed yesterday. Unique visitors was up 38% to 18,291 visitors yesterday. For the übergeek readers out there, I kept an eye on my server's load average throughout the day. Most of the time it was around 0.50, but it spiked to as high as 2.21 at various times. Fortunately I didn't have any real trouble with the load.

I use Google Analytics to track actual (human read) pages also. You can see from the graphic below that human-read traffic was more significantly impacted by this event than even the numbers above show (click image for full size).

Not only did I receive a lot of (mostly-)positive feedback about the digg utility, but I also received some very good feedback about my novel, The Agency Delta. And that really is the whole point for me. I appreciate all the feedback and support from everyone. I know my blog goes all over the place. It's my place to just express my random thoughts, so I truly appreciate those of you who keep coming back whether I'm talking tech, books, movies, TV, politics or bacon. I especially appreciate you who have taken the time to read my book online and give me comments. I'll be posting another chapter later.

Thanks!