This is the magic pattern that means a startup is probably going to make it.<p>Incidentally, while 10k uniques a day is not a huge number for the average site, it is for this site. These visitors are per capita about as valuable as you can get. They're not just checking out the latest pictures on their friend's profile; they're all looking for electronic parts.
Alexas graphs really do look nothing like graphs provided by sites :/ who to trust!...<p><a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/octopart.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/octopart.c...</a><p>Seriously, cool graph + wd :)
This may be some what unrelated... but www.mcmaster.com is the best website I've ever seen or used for sourcing and buying mechanical or industrial products. Maybe it's worth considering that kind of model, ie more like craigslist, for octopart's homepage vs the google style.
Congrats fellas! - i'm curious, can you say who your top referring sites are? Does Google dominate 80% of it? Do you spend lots of cycles on SEO? I understand if you aren't comfortable answering these questions in a public forum.