What are the daily stats when a hub is thought to have "gone viral"?

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   Glimmer Twin Fanposted 10 years ago

   Every so often I see comments about hubs "going viral".  I'm just curious what people consider when they say a hub has "gone viral".  Is it 100 views a day...1,000 views a day...10,000 views a day, etc...?  Is a hub considered viral when the number of views goes up for a few days and then goes down, or is it viral when the number of views goes up and stays up?

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      David 470posted 10 years agoin reply to this

      I don't know if this is viral, but back in 2011 I had a hub that got 5000 views a day for weeks.
      
      In my opinion 10,000+ would be more so..

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         TIMETRAVELER2posted 10 years agoin reply to this

         I think 5,000 per day is pretty viral!  I've never been that lucky!

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         catgypsyposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         WOW!!!  That's pretty terrific...and viral, I would say!

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         Glimmer Twin Fanposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         5,000 hits per day is awesome in my opinion.  Wow.

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   relacheposted 10 years ago

   In the larger scheme of the web, when something is viral it achieves millions of views in anywhere from a few days to a few weeks.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 10 years ago

   I've only "gone viral" once. A band I wrote about linked to my Hub on their official Facebook page so my views blew up huge for a couple of days afterwards... I think I racked up about 9000 views over three or four days. I was ecstatic. I wish it would happen more often.

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   Greekgeekposted 10 years ago

   Relache is correct in that "viral" on the web at large tends to mean a sustained traffic flow that results in millions of visitors over a few weeks. Think of when Gangnam Style took over the web, for an extreme example. It was a viral phenomenon with staying power.
   
   Like FreddysCat, I use "viral" more imprecisely to refer to times when one of my pages has gotten a great link from a prominent article and/or gotten a flood of social, topical traffic, boosting its traffic up into the thousands per day for a week or two. But this isn't really viral, as it's not hundreds of thousands, nor does it last for more than a few weeks of buzz.
   
   I guess I'd call it a "social media spike," or something. Even if they're not long-term viral, they pay nicely.
   
   I really love having a few page on topics that tend to get a traffic spike whenever that topic is in the news again.

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   KoffeeKlatch Galsposted 10 years ago

   Wow , 5000 a day sounds viral to me.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 10 years ago

   Considering that on a good day, the majority of my Hubs get an average of maybe 10 hits per day (if I'm lucky), suddenly getting a few thousand in one shot was certainly "viral" enough for me!

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   Mark Ewbieposted 10 years ago

   Three views. In a single day!!!  Absolute madness.  I was rushed off my feet - getting ready to answer comments (no one bothered) - counting my Adsense (one cent).
   
   Since then it has gone back to normal but I live in hope.

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      Motown2Chitownposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      
      
      Hiya, Ewbie!

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         Mark Ewbieposted 10 years agoin reply to this

         Hello you!!!!

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      catgypsyposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Mark...so funny! Sounds like my viral moment...haha.

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