That works out to an average of less than 5000 per day. Not bad but also not that great. The good news is that there is an increase in the number of pageviews per day, so he seems to be on the right track but it's a long way to go before you could really call it a success from a traffic point of view.<p>Pageviews as a goal is not too great a metric anyway, better things (that result to some extent from pageviews) are turnover and conversion rates.<p>Just a few pageviews per day with a very high conversion rate (to paying customers) is a lot more effective than to simply trying to maximize pageviews alone.<p>I don't really understand the business model behind drawar, other than that it is a web design and developer community, there does not seem to be any attempt at monetizing that traffic (as far as I can see, maybe I'm wrong), which makes it even harder to appreciate the increase in pageviews, after all that makes it a hobby project (more pageviews -> more costs!) instead of a business. But he's on the the right track and if he adds a businessmodel and quadruples the number of pageviews he'll be able to pay for the hosting and have some money left over.
The million is a serious milestone, but pageviews[1] are still a shallow metric.<p>I wish him nothing but continued success, and his advice is spot-on, but I also hope he'll care more for promoting things like the number of people an item has been re-sent to from current readers, effects of efforts to encourage repeat readership, or any other metric that comes from the actions of that community. Dig deeper and segment your numbers, its well worth it!<p>[1] formerly known as 'hits' before people who do web analytics for a living exposed it as How Idiots Track Stats.
1 million pageviews is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, but just getting there for the first time is a still a big deal. Congrats, and I hope this founder finds that the first million pageviews is the hardest million.