LifeHackered

When LifeHacker.com links to your website for an article, and your webhost can't handle the traffic. Common symtoms ... people visiting the page within hours of a Lifehacker posting generally see a poor performing website, or a message from the website host indicating that the site is unavailable due to exceeding traffic limitations.

Commenter 1: This is some website. It says it's down.
Commenter 2: Yeah, it's been Lifehackered. Check back in a day or 30.

by G33kSp3@k3r November 4, 2011

the lifehacker effect

It means having too much traffic on a web site due to its link being posted on lifehacker.com as a feature article, sometimes even causing the featured web site to go down.

I just visited the site, but it seems the lifehacker effect took off again!

by mish1234568 March 14, 2009

Lifehacker

One who practices lifehacking. See lifehack.

John Doe: I can turn the channel 2.5 seconds faster than before.

Jane Doe: You are such a lifehacker.

by Necronites February 6, 2012

lifehacker lag

The lag of a small website resulting from a link posted on lifehacker.com

This site is so slow. It must be suffering from lifehacker lag.

by coreyjo January 28, 2014