crazily huge traffic from Facebook

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  morander · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 1:35 pm

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  Hi

  I seem to have some unexplained traffic from facebook. According to WP stats it is all being driven from Australia but at the moment is is passed midnight. I am lucky to get 500 hits per week but I have had that in the last two hours.

  Any ideas?

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  debeckett · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 5:33 pm

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  It looks like your recent post titled “Newborns are Boring” was shared on the Facebook page of AussieDaddyBloggers:

  I expect this accounts for your spike in traffic from Australia. Enjoy the visitors :-)

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  morander · Member · Mar 26, 2013 at 8:18 pm

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  Hi there.

  I thought that might be the case but according to Facebook, only 64 people saw it and as I initially said, the activity was happening between 11pm and 2pm when most people are asleep.

  Any ideas?

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  debeckett · Member · Mar 27, 2013 at 2:38 pm

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  Maybe their newborns kept them up? It’s a funny post, and the title “Newborns are Boring” is something just about every parent alive can relate to.

  Other than displaying the number of views a post has received, and the source of referrals to your blog, we don’t have any way to further determine the reason for an increase in traffic.