How much traffic does a site receive when it reaches the HN front page?

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mtmail · Accepted Answer

"From saturday to monday: 80,935 unique visits with peaks of 600 simultaneous people on site. Out of those 81K, 24,661 came from HN. The average time spent on site was 2:11." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107658

ve55 · Answer

Depending on where you are on the page and how interesting the title is, I'd put it at between 10-100K visitors.

gus_massa · Answer

As a rule of thumb, the number of visits is approximately 50 + 100 * points. YMMV.

DamonHD · Answer

In my brief experience, not as much as Slashdotting used to!