topsites - 6:26 pm on Jan 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

The first site that ranks for "louis braille birthdate" just went down. I wonder how much traffic did it got this day. Ill mail that webmaster and tell him to put some adWords on :)

I don't know for sure, but in my experience it's less (a LOT less) than the hype would make us believe.

Don't get me wrong, it's more traffic most our sites see everyday, but it's likely no more than what you'll see once or twice in its lifetime, likely about 1,000 clicks/day or so, maybe 10k hits/day for a really popular thing (keeping in mind, a hit is defined as a data request, so 10k hits = 1,000 page loads, roughly).

In terms of hits (specifically, data requests), maybe it breaks the 100,000 hits/day mark, but probably not. Certainly in initial attention this is likely, but folks who click through, then click through again? It is still vaguely possible, but not nearly as close.

Wikipedia is lucky... Perhaps 50-100 clicks/day, maybe less... But, it's free.

[edited by: topsites at 6:35 pm (utc) on Jan. 4, 2006]