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Comment by sherbondy | Hacker News Reader

Pretty darn fun to be able to see the Hacker News front page effect in realtime since they have their own site's Plausible stats publicly available!

https://plausible.io/plausible.io?period=30d&source=Hacker+N...

What a great demo of the product :D

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What a great link.

At the time of writing, Goal Conversions:

- Visit/blog 12800

- Signup 8

I knew anecdotally that HN doesn't convert but, oof, that's rough..

HN influences. It makes a wide and deeply technical circle aware. Maybe a week, month, year they suggest [or recommend to peers], etc. organic growth business like Plausible is about surviving long enough to keep growing your network effect. All these mentions and discussions add up. People remember.

exactly! our first "viral" moment was on HN too and we only got a few direct signups that day but we would never have made it to this point without being on the top of HN that time

I'm surprised the baseline's so low? (Single digits)

That's incoming traffic from HN only. Remove that filter and it's closer to 5k visitors/day.

Ah! That makes a lot more sense, thanks, I didn't spot that.

(In case Plausible people are here: I found it a lot more obvious on the desktop site, in fact when I saw it there I thought 'oh it just doesn't show the filter on mobile', but then when I switched back saw it does, I just hadn't noticed it.)

good point, thanks! we had to shorten the top menu on mobile devices to fit all the important stuff so you only see "X filters" rather than the full filter as on the desktop

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