HN front page, 16000 visitors in a day, how many actually read the article?

Post by onlyup » Sun, May 12, 2013, 7:43 PM UTC

consz wrote: post #53

gnosis wrote: post #47

I rarely read even the articles with interesting titles that make it to HN's front page. This is because when I did read more of them, they usually turned out to be a lot less interesting than the ensuing discussion on HN. So now I use the HN discussion as a proxy for article quality. In the HN discussion I can often find a good summary of the article and get a sense of whether the article is likely to be worth readi…

Agreed, I'm the same way, I probably haven't clicked an article on HN in weeks, I usually just read the comment sections of articles that have interesting titles.

Post by gwern » Sun, May 12, 2013, 10:13 PM UTC

BCM43 wrote: post #69

gwern wrote: post #68

Here's a bit of data: last week my page http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns was submitted to Hacker News and hit the front page for a while, racking up thousands of visitors. As it happens, I was running an A/B test on fonts, where a JavaScript timer sleeps 40 seconds and then fires, telling Google Analytics that a reader has 'converted'. (This hopefully avoids the bouncing distortion of the 'time on page' metric…

What happens if a user is running noscript?

Post by qu4z-2 » Mon, May 13, 2013, 3:11 AM UTC

trhiawd wrote: post #50

jonknee wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not too surprising as a decent percentage of HN visitors are currently making tools that destroy privacy.

s/destroy/monetize/