: How many views/day are required for a site to break even? What is a rough estimate of how many views/day a site needs to break even on hosting and bandwidth using advertising? You can assume:

@Gloria169

Well you obviously need more views per day than Twitter & Facebook a year ago (not sure when they broke through the profit barrier)

ALternatively you could easily get to $'00s or $'000s per month on free hosting - e.g. a Blogspot or WP.com blog.

People have TV and Book deals based upon twitter accounts.

You could easily make a 6 figure income using Blogspot to host a sales page and eJunkie for sales and product delivery.

With Adsense you can easily have between [CO].10 and 0 CPM (per thousand views) even if you only make [CO].10 to [CO].20 per click.

My first niche website many moons ago (well 5 years or so) I was making [CO].05 to [CO].10 per visitor in a gardening niche. So you could break even with paid hosting at 3 visitors per day.

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@Caterina187

You get (basically) no money from adSense if people don't click on your ads, so you also need to estimate the click-thru adsense rate.

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@Steve110

Without telling us your average revenue (r) per view, how many views per day (v) you receive, and what your expenses (e) are, it's an impossible question to answer. Of course, once you do tell us those things, it's a simple equation: r*v*d = e (d = number of days).

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@LarsenBagley505

Surely the biggest variable is the value of the adverts you attract, which depends on your content, and the click-through rate, which depends on the number of visitors?

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@Berryessa370

This depends on a few things:


how much does hosting cost?
how much does bandwidth cost?
how much was the development cost?
how much is the maintenance cost?


Too many variables you have no declared to even take a rough stab at it but since you asked:


42 views / day seems reasonable

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