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: Yeah, Ethiopian Multiplication is the most popular page for StumbleUpon landings, so every time we get a StumbleUpon surge, that page gets a boatload of hits. It's an amusing feedback loop. Any time someone thumbs-up any page on the rosettacode.org domain, SU throws more users at the pool of pages on that domain. EM appears to have the highest weight in that pool, so SU tends to throw more users at that page than any other. Since the Ethiopian Multiplication page has a rather high thumb-up frequency, that causes the domain weight ''and'' the page weight to go up, resulting in a large surge of traffic. It's been exactly two weeks since the latest surge began, and it's still resisting falling back to normal levels; a normal day's SU referral visit count is 10-20, and we only just fell below 900 yesterday. Incidentally, I'm pretty sure I narrowed down the trigger behind this latest surge to [http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201003/whats_the_point_of_ospathcommonprefix.html one of your comments on another blog]. Cool. :) --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 01:38, 9 April 2010 (UTC)