HP traffic is going nuts for some reason...

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   paradigmsearchposted 10 years ago

   https://www.quantcast.com/labs/real-tim … bpages.com
   
   Absolute best I've ever seen.

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      Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Is hp's the blue line or the squiggly line?

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         paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         Both,
         
         Currently
         17,029
         unique visitors
         77
         page views per second
         Uniques / Page Views Per Second
         
         Starting to slack off now. I saw it spike at 20K unique visitors and 100+ page views per second.

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            Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

            It's probably that new hub I wrote... I knew it would be huge but I didn't realize it would bring us all fame and fortune. you're welcome.

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               paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

               Looks like the spike came from Ashburn, Virginia.

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                  Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

                  Yeah... Im huge there.
                  
                  Actually... my new hub did get 20 views... which for you would be like a hub going viral. lol That was a surprise... two red arrows.

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      Kain 360posted 10 years agoin reply to this

      I did not know HubPages had a real-time stats. Very interesting!

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   janderson99posted 10 years ago

   It is probably due to HP opening up the flood gates and featuring a lot more hubs. Adding thousands of pages at once to the G index is likely to trigger spikes.

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      Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

      uh oh... the grown ups are talking... Id better go before I embarrass myself.

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   paradigmsearchposted 10 years ago

   Traffic shooting back up again.
   
   And two-thirds of it really is from Ashburn, VA. That place really is close to Washington DC...

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      Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Now you will be president.

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         paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         I'm wondering if Langley has a subsidiary in Ashburn...

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            Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

            oop! You lost me... that's ok... I knew I was out of my league as soon as I saw the moving graph.

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            Writer Foxposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            Wikipedia is in Ashburn.

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               paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

               Be nice if they decided to link to all our hubs.

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      Writer Foxposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      The total number of households in Ashburn, Virginia, is 22,555.  According to that Quantcast information, half of them are on HubPages right now.  Very strange. There is a big debate going on there now about Obamacare.

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         Millionaire Tipsposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         They are probably looking for hubs to steal.

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         paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         Whatever is going on, traffic now dropping like a rock. I guess an Obamacare hub got themselves a spike.

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            Writer Foxposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            I couldn't find anything that would attract that much attention.  There is a Gubernatorial race with an election on November 5th and a big debate this Thursday.  Candidates are: Republican Ken Cuccinelli, Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Libertarian Robert Sarvis.  I checked their names, too, on HP and didn't find any recent activity on Hubs. ??????????

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               Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

               It was my puppy and kitty hub.

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                  paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

                  Actually, I think it was your tuna hub.

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                     Beth37posted 10 years agoin reply to this

                     haha... that would not say too much for the good ppl of VA. Surely it was the puppy.

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   Writer Foxposted 10 years ago

   I think it had to have been a traffic scam.  Ashburn is an upscale community with a six-figure median income and even a major news event (think: hurricane, earthquake, terrorist attack) would not attract half of the households to the same website at the same time. And notice how quickly all that traffic just vanished.  A normal, legitimate traffic spike would trail off not just vaporize.

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      paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      I'm going with Langley probing HubPages for recalcitrant Hubbers.

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         Writer Foxposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         Well, it wouldn't need 11,000 unique IP addresses to do that.

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            paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            They didn't want it showing as all from one IP, so they just rotated through their list. However, I have changed my mind about Langley. I'm now thinking Maryland as the pre-proxy source.

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         barryrutherfordposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         lol!

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   Writer Foxposted 10 years ago

   It could be Amazon.com:
   http://forum.statcounter.com/vb/showthread.php?t=41717

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      paradigmsearchposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      I think you've actually found the real reason!

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         Writer Foxposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         I hope someone from the staff deals with it because those hosted sites appear to have bots that commit click fraud.  AdSense won't like that! (It's amazonaws.com which is a hosting company owned by amazon.com.)

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   Paul Edmondsonposted 10 years ago

   This type of thing is pretty common.  We typically block the IPs.

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      Writer Foxposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Cool!

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   agilitymachposted 10 years ago

   Very interesting.  After watching one of my puppy hubs (seriously - it was a puppy hub) go viral (for me) this week with 120 viewers on at any given time for a while, I was wondering how many people visit HubPages.  I was wondering how small a part my measly 120 viewers played in HubPages bigger picture.  Here is my answer!!  Thanks Mr. P.

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