What the what?

"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures) 02/25/2014 at 20:04 • Filed to: None

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I was looking at the Quantcast site traffic stats for Jalopnik (sometimes I like looking at random data, don't judge me), and I noticed this massive spike on November 8-9. Most of the time a day's traffic is in the 250,000-350,000 unique visitors range, but on the 8th it rocketed to 991,000 and the 9th it climbed even higher to 1.04 million. For a reference of scale, if those 1.04 million people were all in one city it would become the tenth largest city in the United States, slotting in between Dallas and San Jose. I checked and this is the most active day on record for Jalopnik, and the only time the site has had over a million unique visitors in a single day. For the life of me I can't think of any big news around that time that would cause such a spike. Anyone know what it was?

As a side note, Oppo's biggest day was October 2nd, with 176,000 visitors.

Tom McParland > Dusty Ventures 02/25/2014 at 20:07

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Was that the Doug's Coast to Coast record post? Or it could have been that silly bike helmet thing

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Dusty Ventures 02/25/2014 at 20:07

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Rob Ford or something cross posted to Gawker?

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Dusty Ventures 02/25/2014 at 20:08

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That would be because of this here. http://jalopnik.com/swedes-develop… If I remember right it is the most viewed article ever on jalopnik.

MtrRider > Dusty Ventures 02/25/2014 at 20:09

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These are the top stories from that time.

We have invisible bike helmet, Forza and Tesla on fire.

N/A POWAAAHH > Dusty Ventures 02/25/2014 at 20:09

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Lots of races?

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Dusty Ventures > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/25/2014 at 20:10

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By jove, you've cracked it!

Now, what was it that brought 176,000 to Oppo in October?

EDIT: Nevermind

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Leadbull > Dusty Ventures 02/25/2014 at 20:13

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The death of the Furai?

Tom McParland > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 02/25/2014 at 20:14

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How sad is it that the most popular post ever on Jalopnik is not about cars...but rather a goddamn bike helmet.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Dusty Ventures 02/25/2014 at 20:15

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Looking at DasWauto best of Oppo post it looks to be the weekend of that whole Range Rover attack thing so a ton of that stuff was posted to the FP, and between the 1,2, and 3 there were 10 different articles shared to the FP. So that would drive a bunch of uniques our way. http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/best-of-opposi…

Dusty Ventures > Tom McParland 02/25/2014 at 20:20

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I am rather curious how that got six million views. I mean it's impressive as all getout, but still

Blondude > Tom McParland 02/25/2014 at 20:22

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Silly bike helmet thing. :/

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Dusty Ventures 02/25/2014 at 20:23

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It got shared to other Gawker platforms to spread lie wildfire, someone even sent the link to me a few days after it came out and she has no interest in cars at all. So basically, it made it out to the regular people.