The StumbleUpon effect

We all know about the Digg effect, the reddit effect, the Slashdot effect etc. but you rarely ever hear about the power of StumbleUpon. Today I experienced the StumbleUpon effect on a small scale.

Recently I build a few pages about the C25K program (more about this in my next post). The main page got stumbled and within two hours my Snoop app from reinvigorate went nuts. The counter went through the roof (note that I have a low ceiling ;) so the numbers might not impress you). I was able to capture some screenshots of reinvigorate.net:

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The above image is a screenshot when I came home walking my dog and noticed Snoop was producing a continuous sound.

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Another snapshot 15 minutes later. The number went up for another minute and then slowly decreased. The next snapshot is a total of visitors.
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I’m curious how Google Analytics is processing the numbers. More later