My StumbleUpon Beating

I’m currently being pounded by StumbleUpon users thumbs-up’ing my geek t-shirts page, so will finally see tonight whether WordPress is capable of filling the gaps that my custom blog system left wide open. Just to be on the safe-side, I’ve installed WP Super Cache, which was the primary reason for ditching the theme switcher and creating this new theme.

Of course, it goes without saying that I’m not complaining about this traffic spike, and positively encourage people to Digg/Thumbs Up my pages via StumbleUpon. In fact, if any of you reading this are StumbleUpon users, don’t forget to join the StumbleUpon fanlisting too! :D

Update (aka HOLY SHIT):

over 15,000 hits

Update (aka IT HASN’T STOPPED):

over 19,000 hits

I honestly didn’t think WordPress (or Site5 for that matter) would be capable of handling this kind of traffic. I hereby find myself eating humble pie.

10 comments so far

  1. Rhys said:
    On 16 Jul at 7:52 pm

    Do you know, when/if we finally meet, I have a scary feeling we’d both be wearing “May the Way of the Hero lead to the Triforce” t-shirts ;)

  2. Arwen said:
    On 17 Jul at 1:27 am

    lol. I like your geek shirts, they make me giggle.

  3. Cel said:
    On 17 Jul at 5:18 am

    Oo, I’m rather tempted to join StumbleUpon…the geek tees are pretty awesome.

  4. Melissa said:
    On 17 Jul at 2:53 pm

    Oh, now that is a lot of hits even from StumbleUpon.

    If I remember rightly, I think the most pageviews that one of my articles managed to pull from SU was around 5000.

    I still don’t think bloggers really use StumbleUpon to their best advantage though, there really is a whole market out there that isn’t being tapped into by blogs. Yes you can stumble through videos, news items and photographs but I’d love to see a feature there to stumble interesting and humorous blog entries too.

  5. Erin said:
    On 17 Jul at 5:14 pm

    Good grief! That amount of referrers is insane.

  6. Elbrus said:
    On 17 Jul at 6:57 pm

    I am impressed. I’ve never seen a traffic spike hitting 20K users from a Stumble. I am impressed that your server took the traffic in stride. If it had failed would have been your hosting more than wordpress from my experince. Love the “Geeks are for life, not just for computer breakdowns”.

  7. Mimi said:
    On 17 Jul at 10:18 pm

    Woah, 20k users from StumbleUpon?! :O
    I heard WP Super Cache is absolutely amazing when it comes to these traffic spikes. Supposedly makes your site digg-proof
    Definitely looks that way to me!

  8. Gary R. Hess said:
    On 18 Jul at 7:47 am

    WP Super-Cache is completely awesome. I had some problems with it when I first installed (htaccess wasn’t changing–my problem of course), but once that was fixed I could definitely tell the difference. I’m sure with as much Stumble traffic as this blog receives you will benefit greatly.

  9. Christine said:
    On 26 Jul at 5:12 pm

    wow. ^^ i’m impressed too~

    i’ve never even thought to submit myself to stumble. too scared i think !