One Hundred Thousand Reads

A thank you, and a look at the numbers.

This site just passed one hundred thousand reads. It started as a public notebook that almost no one read. The plan hasn’t changed: one post a month, no quick takes, only deep dives into things I care about. If you have read even one, thank you. That number is you.

Visitors stay five and a half minutes on average. Reddit and Hacker News send almost nine in ten of them; every search engine put together sends fewer than one in twenty.

Two sites, most of it. Reddit and Hacker News send nearly nine in ten readers; every search engine put together sends under one in twenty.

reddit69%

hacker news20%

search engines<5%

others6%

The traffic comes in spikes: a post hits a front page, pulls a few thousand reads in a day, then goes quiet. The three most-read posts owe over 41,000 reads to a few such days.¹ ¹ Optimizing a Lock-Free Ring Buffer leads with 17,169 reads, followed by the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (12,575) and Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism (11,961).

Thank you, again, for reading.

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