Over the last day and a half, over 2,000 4,000 visitors have visited that entry via SU. That’s pretty much what this blog did in terms of traffic all of last month. Here are a few things I’ve noticed during the surge.

I’m glad I installed the WP SuperCache plugin awhile back. I don’t have the Super Cache functionality turned on (it lets you just turn on WP Cache, which I do have on), but by caching that entry, I was able to serve that entry quickly and without a large number of database calls. If you run any kind of popular WordPress-powered blog, I would recommend WP Cache or WP SuperCache.

I’ve read many blog posts that say StumbleUpon traffic comes quickly but doesn’t really convert in terms of RSS feed subscriptions. My subs are about the same as they had been. Has anyone else noticed this? I wonder too if this will create repeat traffic.

I’m also surprised by the lack of comments considering the amount of visitors to that post. I figured a post about security and PHP would garner some discussion either way, but thus far, I’ve only received 1 comment on that post, and it wasn’t so much a comment as it was a correction.

I’m going to keep an eye on this for the next few weeks and see what the long term effects are, traffic-wise.