What a day!

40 000 unique pageviews.

4th place on Digg main page!

2nd place on Reddit main page!

SlashDot still ignores me! (that's OK, save it for later)

$25.00 in AdSense (which is delayed by many hours... only seeing 1/4 of my pageviews)

I'm not rolling in the dough, but it has been a blast so far.

So I finally got Dugg around 11:30AM EST. Traffic ramped up and was causing a 1-3 second latency when accessing pages. I put a service call into Dreamhost and they were GREAT, got back to me right away - latency went back down, and they said they were monitoring it closely for the rest of the day. Not bad for their lowest-level Crazy Domain Insane plan.

Traffic tailed off as I got kicked off the main Digg page (but keep on Digging me so that I can get on the Top 10 Diggs in All Topics (need 300 more!)) but then picked up as Reddit kicked in.

Tons of comments on both sites - definitely an interesting subject for peeople - although I vastly prefer Reddit's more mature chatter.

I've also gotten a ton of cool (and a minority not so cool) emails supporting the site and offering suggestions. It's kind of neat that complete strangers are willing to help out with the site!

More in depth analysis tomorrow as I learn to use Google Analytics to see where people are going, and where they're leaving the site. Preliminarily, it seems 'shirts.htm' is the most profitable so far.

Ideally, SlashDot will pick me up tomorrow or later next week to keep the traffic flowing.

Anyone want to do a SlashDot submit for me? (you benefit too, because you can link to your own site if Slashdotters click the submitters name.)