Hacker News now generates 10x the traffic of TechMeme

Three observations: this is just one dataset. You can't assume that HN generates more traffic based on this story and this one alone.

They appear to have been posted at different times of day- this can have a huge impact.

Also, the chart cuts off before the TechMeme traffic dies off- it already seems to have a significantly longer tail than HN traffic.

For what it's worth, I did a comparison of HN vs. Reddit traffic to my blog: http://blog.untogether.co.uk/post/17661390124/fun-with-analy... and Reddit absolutely smoked HN. Not that that's too surprising.

I know from multiple experiences that this graphic is misleading. Techmeme sometimes sends more traffic than HN; it depends entirely on the slant of the story and on its positions on TM and HN.

Which is why rags like The Verge are rewriting articles like:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/16/2952030/user-interface-des...

and sites like BGR, MacObserver, ExtremeTech, ITWorld, Bostinno and probably plenty of others maintain a presence here dumping their links.

I'm just wondering about selection bias, maybe some people read both HN and TM, and didn't re-visit because they had already read about it on HN. Have you got any recent examples where the story first appeared on TM and then on HN?

No way this article is correct. I dispise users discussing traffic as a goal on most sites, but at hacker news is radically different it's about intelligent discourse and enlightenment. I can assure you PG wouldn't lose any sleep at night if he knew other sites were visited more than HN. Look at the URL. One is a subdomain and the other is a straight .com. Plus who believes that stat reporting nonsense anyway. The only true way to tell is opening up Google Analytics for both domains and then comparing.

10x is a big claim for a sample size of 1.