Finger on the pulse
I've been amazed watching this site's traffic for the past few days. It usually only measures a few hundred hits per day, which, given it completely generic appearance and relatively uninteresting content amazed me. But a post I made about the Iraqi information minister about a week and a half ago clearly got picked up and distributed someplace.
On April 8, the traffic doubled to almost 900 page impressions. Then on the 9th, it more than tripled to more than 3,300 hits. I thought it was just a temporary blip because on the 10th it dropped down to more than 1,400. The on Friday, Tikkabik was shocked and awed in a massive decapitation strike of Web traffic: more than 13,000 hits (totalling over 250MB of traffic). Saturday saw a respectable total of more than 5,400 impressions.
Much of the traffic seems to be originating from the UK. Well, we'll see how next week goes. My account with my Web host gives me enough bandwidth flexibility that I can see how this rides out over the course of the next few days without panicking about a huge bill at the end of the month, but if continues on this track, I will have to pull the thread all together.