The “Digg Effect” at supriyadisw.net

What is the “Digg Effect”?

The “Digg effect” definition from Wiki is the term given to the phenomenon of a popular website linking to a smaller site, causing the smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic.

This Tuesday my Ultimate Ubuntu Dapper Look Like OSX got dugg. This resulted in over 30,304 page loads and 16,000 unique visitors in less than 5 days. Here are some a visual analysis of the “Digg effect”.

My article at Digg.com

It all started when my article was pushed up to the the front page. I’ve submitted some of my other articles to digg at the same day without much success, and this one seemed no different. Perhaps this article got a little attention from diggers

Pageloads and Unique Visitors

The summary from the Bar Graph above (taken from statcounter):
Pageloads: 30,361 pages.
Unique Visitors: 16,526 visitors.

Feedburner Statistic

The most Feed Readers and Aggregators using Firefox Live Bookmarks (523).

Visitor Stats

The graph above taken from Performancing Metrics.

Traffic Rank

My traffic ranking on Alexa: 115,994 (up 6,320,202).

How to survive from the “Digg Effect” for WordPress

There are some tips to survive from the “Digg Effect” for WordPress:

1. Coral P2P Web Cache.
   The Coral caching system does not rewrite embedded links to pages or images, so is useful only for sites using relative links to images or other pages. Additionally, Coral will only serve content from the original site up to 24 hours after it becomes unreachable -source Wiki.
2. DuggMirror.
   Suffering sites may be able to mitigate the “Digg Effect” by temporarily redirecting requests for the targeted pages to one of these mirrors -source Wiki.
3. WP-Cache 2.0.
   A very-easy-to-install-and-use plugin. By creating cached pages, it reduce the php code parsed by the web server, and also eliminate the query to mysql database. Both speeds up the page load dramatically -source http://blog.tarotoast.com/2006/03/19/233/.

Conclusions

Diggers seem like a nice bunch they don’t do much damage! Happy dugg and gud lak!