Why have my site stats gone mad?

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  kiwiannison · Member · May 16, 2012 at 2:12 am

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  I’ve a regular(ish) history of stats – generally avg 100 hits a day – but so far today my blog has had 472 visitors!
  A large majority (439) are from stumble upon and I cannot understand why the sudden increase from there… I click on the referal link and it just give me a “you’ve been stumbled” page.

  Do they do something like freshly pressed?
  any one know why I may have the sudden referrals today?

  cheers

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  raincoaster · Member · May 16, 2012 at 2:15 am

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  They do something like Freshly Pressed, but MUCH MUCH bigger. Congratulations, you have just gone viral!

  Sometimes you can see what people have stumbled and sometimes you can’t; are the majority of your hits going to one post? If so, that’s the one they Stumbled. It means they recommended you, so it’s all good news.

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  kiwiannison · Member · May 16, 2012 at 2:35 am

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  no – it doesn’t show which post they are looking at – just showing “stumbleupon.com/refer” and then a long code – when I click I just get the “You’ve been stumbled page”

  I’m pleased in a way to get extra hits but not really if it’s just a blip and they aren’t “genuine”

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  kiwiannison · Member · May 16, 2012 at 2:40 am

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  ah.. figured out (on my page stats NOT referrer stats) that most of hits are going to my latest post
  http://kiwiblogbus.com/2012/05/13/waterworks-surely-the-best-fun-you-can-have-with-recycled-objects/

  still don’t know why S.Upon referrals have gone so high suddenly today?!

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  raincoaster · Member · May 16, 2012 at 3:27 am

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  Simply that someone there thought it was worth sharing and a lot of others there agree.