How much traffic can being featured on Google homepage give you ?

The whole of internet. Easy guess right ? Lets try and find out.

All of you might have noticed that last week starting November 4th, Google started featuring the Sesame Street characters on its homepage with special doodles celebrating its 40th Anniversary.

And clicking on the doodle would take you to a search page with the first page listing of Sesamestreet.org.

I was wondering how much traffic the site might have received during these days ! its a seven day long process and its only half way through, but its good to check the numbers right ? Now, I know this is not the same as “being featured on the homepage” means but this is as close to it.

Let’s see what Alexa says.

It cannot give the exact numbers but the graph explains it all. There’s a humungous spike in traffic and the real numbers would be amazing to see. If only the webmaster shared it with us.

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