According to QuantCast, we are, in fact, experiencing record traffic levels now, with a particular spike coincident with the time surrounding Purim, larger than the spikes we had last year around Pesach and then around Tishrei. FWIW
@IsaacMoses thanks for the pointer. We've also had bumps in the number of questions being asked and answers being offered, and we've had a lot of new users. Nice!
It is a common practice for people to buy their Pesach eggs in advance of Pesach. I've seen different reasons for this, including:
The popular notion that some chametz might somehow get into the egg, and therefore the egg must be owned by a Jew in advance of Pesach when the chametz in the egg ...
In case folks haven't seen it, there's some discussion on MSO about redesigning the profile page (again). Input from people who don't live on SO could be useful.