Ask HN: How many people are on HN?
Just wondering if there were any released metrics or clever ways to estimate the volume of users looking at Hacker News (say at least once a week?). I imagine it is a high multiple of the number of posters/registered users. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=hacker%20news%2C%20hn%2C%20news.ycombinator.com%2C%20ycombinator%2C%20yc&cmpt=q)
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I think the very best submissions got something like 2k points. Since those are really interesting, I would assume a significant proportion of the readers upvoted them, let's say 20%. It would mean 10k unique registered visitors a day. I don't know about the non registered visitors, but let's say for the sake of guessing that they are 10k, that would be (very approximately) 20k unique visitors a day.
I haven't looked at the numbers. I should, but there are too many other things to do, and we worry about quality more than quantity.
Here's some data from Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com
Alexa is not even close to being accurate on tech-related sites. A 3,000 alexa rating on a non-tech related site means the site is attracting at least 3 million unique visitors per month.
My best guess is that HN attracts around 300k - 500k uniques per month.
My best guess is that HN attracts around 300k - 500k uniques per month.