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No, it wasn't. When I saw this headline I went and checked on news.ycombinator.com, and it wasn't affected. In fact, Hacker News actually got more Google traffic on Monday, 5/23 compared with Monday, 4/11.

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Wow, thanks.

I submitted because Alexa is fairly accurate with very high traffic sites, and the drop in HN's rank and reach seemed to coincide with Google Panda roll out.

No worries, happy to clarify.

not questioning your statement, but traffic from two arbitrary days doesn't prove much :)

Okay redduck666, I summed the most recent week of traffic sent to combinator.com from Google that I had data for, and then I summed a week of traffic sent to combinator.com from Google including 4/11 (while keeping the days aligned). Google sent over 20% more traffic in the most recent week when compared to the week of 4/11. I hope that the longer baseline + the fact that traffic increased--not decreased--is enough to convince you? :)

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