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30k for a successful blog post is not a lot though. Your average youtub-er personality considers anything less than 100k+ views per post not as a major success.

Eg. Digital Foundry (tech related) gets on average anywhere between 30k and 140k views per post. The successful ones are over 100k. https://www.youtube.com/user/DigitalFoundry

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Development related blog posts never get super high traffic. You can't compare an article about some python topic to YouTube video about a mass market consumer tech product.

He's right.

It's decent. A great post will get 30k view the day it's published on HN and goes on the top page.

A post that can't make the top page (too niche, not buzzwordy enough, not good enough, etc) can still rank on Google and get 30k slowly over the year.

It's really about the topic. A classic "Another Uber Self Driving Car Accident" is of interest to a population 1000 times bigger than python multiprocessing.

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