A few reflections on our numbers

I'm a novice in this stuff.  Please feel free to write in and set me straight if you have better or more complete information.

We are running at about 1.5million page impressions per month.   I'm told that News Limited's online commentary/opinion site, The Punch, has between 1.2 to 1.5M per month.   I'm chuffed that we are doing so well with such little resource.

On a business day, we regularly bring in about 70,000 page impressions.   Here are the ciculation numbers for Australia's major daily newspapers.

 NewspaperCityState/
Territory
CirculationOwner
1 Herald Sun Melbourne Victoria 515,500 News Limited
2 The Daily Telegraph Sydney New South Wales 374,395 News Limited
3 The Courier-Mail Brisbane Queensland 216,638 News Limited
4 The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney New South Wales 207,013 Fairfax Media
5 The West Australian Perth Western Australia 203,304 West Australian Newspapers
6 The Age Melbourne Victoria 197,500 Fairfax Media
7 The Advertiser Adelaide South Australia 180,091 News Limited
8 The Australian Sydney New South Wales 135,115 News Limited
9 The Australian Financial Review Melbourne Victoria 77,046 Fairfax Media
10 The Herald Newcastle New South Wales 49,300 Fairfax Media
11 The Mercury Hobart Tasmania 45,339 News Limited
12 The Gold Coast Bulletin Gold Coast Queensland 38,728 News Limited
13 The Canberra Times Canberra Australian Capital Territory 32,706 Fairfax Media
14 The Examiner Launceston Tasmania 31,947 Fairfax Media
15 Illawarra Mercury Wollongong New South Wales 27,057 Fairfax Media
16 Townsville Bulletin Queensland Queensland 26,395 News Limited
17 Geelong Advertiser Geelong Victoria 25,955 News Limited
18 The Cairns Post Cairns Queensland 25,758 News Limited
19 The Border Mail Wodonga Victoria 24,729 Fairfax Media
20 The Advocate Burnie Tasmania 23,488 Fairfax Media
21 The Toowoomba Chronicle Toowoomba Queensland 22,932 APN News & Media
22 Northern Territory News Darwin Northern Territory 20,562 News Limited
23 Sunshine Coast Daily Maroochydore Queensland 20,259 APN News & Media
24 The Courier Ballarat Victoria 18,860 Fairfax Media
25 The Morning Bulletin Rockhampton Queensland 17,702 APN News & Media

It's not an apples/apples comparison, but you get some idea of the significance of our numbers.  Many of the smaller newspapers, like the Sunshine Coast Daily, generate pretty hefty advertising revenues.  It's a revenue stream for this site that I'm developing.   Yes, we will have ads! 

Now to SPAM.

I've published 40,235 comments and have rejected 2,464,056 comments.

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