Analytics from HN vs Techcrunch

Might be a poor soul who has to visit HN from corporate computer behind corporate firewall. :)

I'm also super curious about that - I'll try and bundle that up & share in a few weeks/months when we actually have trustable numbers.

I don't find this sort of post riveting, either, but I'm glad someone took the time to put it together. The browser stats from a technical audience are definitely interesting, as is the fact that HN now drives half the amount of traffic as TC.

The reason I personally found it interesting & put it together was that it actually broke my assumptions about HN vs TC.

All the times I've had articles on TC in the past, there have been tons of window shoppers, and very few people even dove past the landing page, let alone signed up. Compared to my own behavior on HN, I was initially expecting far more signups and usage off of HN as compared to TechCrunch.

One other thing that I'm noticing is that the HN traffic's dropped hard already, but the TC traffic is still going strong (~1500 this morning alone).