Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Login required, hits keep coming

It has now been about 22 hours since I required login in order to press the button. Traffic has only slowed a little, and I'm hoping this is just the spam bots having been turned off because they didn't work anymore to keep the time pegged at zero.

Here's a graph of peek and press interval for the three weeks since launch:


As far as I can tell, the jump in activity around 4/21 was due to a sighting at stumbleupon.com where the button was listed under "bizarre" web sites. It may also be that all those days of hammering hits were people's toy bots playing with the button.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I dont belive how such a simple concept has actually become quite popular! Shame about the bots, but now the time is actually getting over a minute. Id love to see the day when it hasnt been pressed for 24 hours!