I do wonder what sort of traffic HN gets in terms of Page view. Would HN consider self hosting an analytic like plausible or other cloud solution where the information is public?
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
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.