Fred Wilson's top referring domains for the past thirty days

Interesting that HN traffic seems fairly low quality (assuming Page Visits and Time on Site as measurements of quality - only Stumbleupon and Countermotions provide lower figures on those metrics). Perhaps this demonstrates that HN visitors read the article, then return here to discuss rather than exploring the site.

I'm not sure what the RSS/Twitter/Facebook flame fest is all about. Or I suppose more to the point, why any of us care.<p>Unless your audience is the extremely narrow TechCrunch demographic, nobody should be making strategic business decisions based on TechCrunch referrer stats.<p>I suppose this is just a good, old-fashioned brawl in the tech world echo chamber.

This is why I like the GetClicky / MixPanel approaches to bounce rate better. I might have the details wrong, but the idea is as long as the page is your active browser window/tab for more than N seconds, you will no longer be counted as a bounce (despite only performing one action).<p>They can constantly reping to estimate your time-on-site within the ping frequency.