I'd always cringe when looking at the bounce rate for my content that would get attention via social media/Reddit/whatever. I liked getting the raw numbers up and seeing people actually reading our stuff, but everything felt very fleeting when you start giving those numbers context compared to your more organic sources. This is all to say that the numbers don't seem very extraordinary in my experience, generally speaking.
I posted some stats from my recent experience being on the front page of Hackers News for a day.