# One Hundred Thousand Reads > A thank you, and a look at the numbers. By David Álvarez Rosa, 16 July 2026. Canonical: https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/one-hundred-thousand-reads/ 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.

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.[^fn:1] Thank you, again, for reading. [^fn:1]: [Optimizing a Lock-Free Ring Buffer](/posts/optimizing-a-lock-free-ring-buffer/) leads with 17,169 reads, followed by the [Fundamental Theorem of Calculus](/posts/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus/) (12,575) and [Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism](/posts/devirtualization-and-static-polymorphism/) (11,961).