I'm trying to come up with a ballpark figure for the number of readers HN has.<p>The only source I could find with some concrete figures:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-news/ which is about 2 years old.<p>- 1.6M views, 200,000 uniques per weekday.<p>Just from this, I'd guess about 25-50% higher than it was in 2013, but that is just my gut speaking.<p>So the ask: how would you estimate the number of readers HN has. Even better, what their demographic breakdown is.
One thing I feel I should add: HN has always been about quality over quantity. We spend our time on what we think may improve the quality of the site, and if we had to choose between being smaller/better and bigger/worse, I hope it's obvious that, and why, we'd choose smaller/better. Growing, but slowly, seems to be the right state for HN.
A stat that I can share. My iOS Hacker News Client which is currenty number 4 on AppStore has between 550 - 600 daily unique users and roughly 2.5k daily sessions on average.