Pageviews as a goal is not too great a metric anyway, better things (that result to some extent from pageviews) are turnover and conversion rates.
Just a few pageviews per day with a very high conversion rate (to paying customers) is a lot more effective than to simply trying to maximize pageviews alone.
I don't really understand the business model behind drawar, other than that it is a web design and developer community, there does not seem to be any attempt at monetizing that traffic (as far as I can see, maybe I'm wrong), which makes it even harder to appreciate the increase in pageviews, after all that makes it a hobby project (more pageviews -> more costs!) instead of a business. But he's on the the right track and if he adds a businessmodel and quadruples the number of pageviews he'll be able to pay for the hosting and have some money left over.