Wow. Thanks for sharing the numbers. 5M uniques is impressive. That feels like a pretty decent market share of all developers in the world.
Thank god HN doesn’t run paid ads. Otherwise I can see marketers spending crazy money for promoted posts. I hate how Twitter injects promoted posts into my feed. Thank you for keeping the ad-holes away from here.
Most of the post I could find that share their Data with blog post hitting front page of HN suggest they got less than 100K PV. They do get over 100K aggregate over a few days.
100K Vs 5M. This mildly suggest HN has a very high engagement from its users.
The numbers I mentioned are an undercount because they don't include all the apps and sites that consume HN through the API. When the new API we're working on is released, it will eventually all be in-house and then we'll know. I suspect the numbers will jump quite a bit.
pg used to post graphs sometimes using an old Google API where you could supply all the data points in a URL and it would return an image. Edit: like http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=ls&chco=ff7700,000000..., which still works! via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833276