Another day of record traffic...

Posted to The Newsroom by Justin Myers at 2:06 p.m., Nov. 5, 2008

...but not for the reason you'd think.

For the second time in the past month, we broke our all-time record for the most visits in a day to themaneater.com yesterday.

Of course, our elections coverage had something to do with it, but it turns out we had another article get picked up by a large Web site. Last time, features editor Kristin Torres' review of The Cure's latest album got picked up by a large fan blog; this time, columnist JJ Stankevitz's piece about Texas Tech got picked up by SI.com.

Check it out:

Some context:

• We usually get anywhere between 1,500 and 3,500 visits per day.
• As far as actual pageviews, let's first look at a typical day (Oct. 17). The site as a whole had about 6,600 pageviews. The front page got 919 of them. Now let's look at yesterday's 14,083 pageviews:
  • 2,058 for the front
  • 1,716 for our politics blog, which we updated throughout the day
  • 1,318 for our election guide
  • 2,338 for JJ's column.

That's pretty intense.