Size estimation of read.cash

Reddit asked us: "How big is read.cash compared to other similar sites?"

Well, here's our best estimate on the 53rd day of existence of read.cash:

[BREAKING NEWS: Due to the late discovery, publish0x.com was added to the first slide, but not to the rest]

Hard to see, let me show you our proud little dot a bit closer:

How did we come up with this estimate? Well, like you do all science - by googling!

(Actually, we're typically ducking, but you get it)

In this case, we had to google, because DuckDuckGo doesn't show the estimate of the results count.

Whenever you google something - you get this thing:

It's not perfect and changes constantly (seemingly it's more of a random guesstimate, rather than an exact number), but it should suffice in comparison of the sizes.

We took a few common words: "bitcoin", "fact", "reason", "uses", "presence" (just some random words) and compared the results count in Google for most popular article sites (well, Medium doesn't pay anything to the authors, but it's the biggest of them all, so included for comparison)

Just for fun we can calculate the "market share" for each word:

Ok, it seems reasonably within range. read.cash isn't exactly zero... but close to it.

Now we can "normalize" the results by dividing each result by the smallest one (read.cash):

The number in a cell shows "how many times more Google results were there for each particular word than on read.cash", so for example honest.cash had 17 times more pages with the word "bitcoin" than read.cash and medium had 306000 times more pages about "fact" than read.cash.

Lots of growing to do!

After that, we have averaged each column and took a square root to find out the side of a square to draw.

It's not an ideal method, but it should get some feeling of the sizes...

...and that's what you see:

Just for fun, as cubes:

The good news is that we only have 99.996% left to grow to be as big as Medium! Hold my beer...

And here's the timeline of all of the projects: