Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Using the previous ratio figures, here is the total traffic you would need to send to sponsors to make the same amount of money.

(1,000 raws / day is the baseline in 2000.)


2000- 1,000
2001- 1,250
2002- 1,562
2003- 1,953
2004- 2,441
2005- 3,052
2006- 3,814
2007- 4,768
2008- 5,960
2009- 7,450
2010- 9,313
2011- 11,642
2012- 14,552
2013- 18,190
2014- 22,737
2015- 28,422
2016- 35,527
2017- 44,409
2018- 55,511
2019- 69,389
2020- 86,736


Today you need 931% more traffic than you did in 2000.

In 2015 you will need 2,842% (this is correct there is no error) more traffic to make the same as you did in 2000 from the pay site model.

edited it to simplify it.