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alceufc on April 22, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom

The distribution of links pointing to a Web site follows a power-law distribution (few sites get most of the links) [1].

It is very likely that the number of visits follow a similar power-law distribution.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/287/5461/2115.full

mendicantB on April 23, 2014 [–]

I'm pretty sure this is exactly what I just said.

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