Plain Reckoner

Per thousand views

Is what you earn per thousand views any good?

Measured against 1.17 billion pageviews and $6.84m of verified ad revenue, across 123 businesses a broker checked before they sold the data

Worked out for an example site: 50,000 views a month, $760 a month from ads.

What you earn per thousand pageviews — the figure the trade calls RPM $15.20/1,000 views
$2.21bottom tenth each block is a tenth of the 123 sites $35.05top tenth
Ahead of roughly this share of the measured sites
40%
Where that puts you
Around the middle of what we measured
What your traffic earns at the measured median
$761
The gap, per month
$0.50
What it earns in the top third of the sample
$1,083
Broker-verified revenue in that sample
123
What the middle site in the sample earns per thousand pageviews
$15.21