>Off topic: Is there a way of detecting which effect a site is experiencing?
I'm not familiar with a way. Some ideas:
* Have Alexa/etc. report real time data including referrers. This requires that work is done by one of the few companies that gets this data.
* Create a site that just monitors which links show up on a manually created list of popular URLs. This would only be an estimate, though since it wouldn't view actual traffic.
* Have people who run sites that might get killed include some code that checks the logs/analytics and reports heavy activity. This is problematic since it requires each site in question to prepare for getting lots of traffic.
