Huge spike in US traffic

[Loki]

I wonder what brought this about. I'll investigate. The increase is only from the US, not other countries.

Screenshot from Quantcast:

[drgnclbr]

It's possible something on the site was linked to from an American-member heavy site (like Reddit or something).

[Loki]

It's possible something on the site was linked to from an American-member heavy site (like Reddit or something).

Possibly, but I don't see a similarly drastic movement from Google Analytics - even though Sunday was the day of highest traffic this week according to it. It's possible that it was either a glitch from Quantcast - or that Quantcast is more accurate, or that I have encoded more pages with the Quantcast script than with the Google script. It is possible.

Anyway, it was a one-day-wonder, since the following day's traffic results are out now and the next day was back to "normal" again.

[Graham]

Maybe the Racial shooting threads. They pick up the traffic.

[Gooding]

TA has attracted American attention.. maybe the Americans are eager to learn something.

[Loki]

TA has attracted American attention.. maybe the Americans are eager to learn something.

There certainly is a dire need there for that

[zhaoyun]

Perhaps it has something to do with the Dylan Roof shooting?

[Gooding]

There certainly is a dire need there for that

I tend to agree with that assessment.

[Rudel]

Now let's enjoy our new wave of purely Germanic half-Italian members.

[Gooding]

Now let's enjoy our new wave of purely Germanic half-Italian members.

It'll be interesting to see what these Germitalians will have to contribute, for sure!