How big is read.cash in April 2020

(Note: our previous size estimation was published about 4 months ago)

We're still pretty small, but we're slowly getting bigger.

At a snail's pace, but we're getting somewhere.

Here's where we stand currently against our competitors:

Yep, there we are! About 13000 times smaller than medium.com. Ok, let's zoom in a little bit (about 1000 times):

Oh, yeah, there we are. Hello!

This chart shows everything in relation to read.cash (so, read.cash is exactly one in size, and five means that something is five times bigger than read.cash)

So, read.cash has passed honest.cash in relative size and is approaching coil.com (yes, I didn't know that site exists either).

Why isn't memo.cash here? Tricky question. We're measuring how big something is by looking at its relative presence in Google.

So, for example, if read.cash has 700 pages that mention the word "city" in Google and honest.cash has only 350 - we can reason that read.cash is about 2 times bigger than honest.cash.

It's a bit more complex than that - we're measuring a lot of words and then averaging them out (there are 20 random words like "area", "bitcoin", "challenge", "city", "comment", "eat")

However, it seems that Google doesn't like memo.cash at all:

It's hard for me to imagine that read.cash is 13 times bigger than memo.cash, especially since other rating show not that big of a difference.

For example, the Majestic Million ranks read.cash currently as site #287,137 on the Internet and memo.cash as #360,279.

If memo.cash was 15 times smaller, it wouldn't even be in Majestic Million.

As you can see, honest.cash is ranked #443,161, so it means that memo.cash is probably smaller than read.cash, but bigger than honest.cash, but the difference is not as dramatic as 15 times.

Why is it like that? The explanation is probably in the fact that memo.cash has very little text and Google likes long texts (unless, of course, you're as big as Twitter).

Are we growing? Yes, and no, and maybe.

Something is growing. We're seeing probably 10-20 new sign ups daily, we're seeing 20-30 new articles per day.

Anyone who has written at least one article is considered an author here. The chart duration is about 6 months.

The total number of tips is growing, but it has slowed down considerably from the peak of the Infrastructure Fund Proposal discussion.

Here, presented as daily tips given:

So, unlike the pandemic we're not growing exponentially, which is sad.

But we're far from giving up.

Actually, since we couldn't really be actively developing and promoting read.cash in the last 4 weeks - that was also an interesting experiment - is read.cash capable of growing on its own?

The answer is, sadly, no, at least not now.

So, we need to put a lot more effort into promoting read.cash and that we'll do.

Still, the number of daily visitors is pretty impressive (between 1000 and 2000 visitors daily with some peaks up to 20,000 visitors)

Sidenote: Can we buy some popularity for read.cash?