Wow! I hit the front page of Digg.com about 20 hours ago, for an old post­ing. The piece is one I wrote back in Septem­ber about new fea­tures in Gmail only being avail­able in the US Eng­lish ver­sion.
With the new Chat fea­ture now released I guess some people were search­ing to find out why they didn’t have it. They found me, and Digg user Gurgle dugg me.

Iron­ic­ally, I didn’t find out about it until mid after­noon because GMail is being really slow at put­ting mail in my inbox. My stat­ist­ics pack­age mails me every 100 unique vis­it­ors. Around 1:30 this after­noon, I received over 50 of these emails all show­ing in GMail as hav­ing been sent “8 hours ago”. I looked and saw that most of them were around 5 minutes apart! I checked my stats pack­age and saw the spike!
(click for lar­ger view). You can see from the hourly chart that for the hour of 5am GMT I got over 1100 vis­it­ors!
The vis­it­ors bar chart for the month has yes­ter­day stick­ing out like the pro­ver­bial sore thumb!
(click for lar­ger image).
In all I had just over 10,000 unique vis­its yes­ter­day: over 7 times the cur­rent aver­age! I’m pleased to say the server held up well. Partly thanks, I’m sure, to Ricardo Galli’s WP-Cache plu­gin. My Webal­izer stats are show­ing 17,000 vis­its for the domain as a whole yes­ter­day (264,000 file hits), almost 3GB of band­width. My last host­ing arrange­ment would have ground to a halt in less than 15 minutes!