How much do you make from donations for your website?

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by ced83fra • 12 years ago

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You have a website, and have a donation button : how much do you on average per month ? What is the ratio donation/traffic ?

BlueWinds• 12 years ago

I get ~$50 / month off of 5-10k visits per post (lifetime visits that is, posting weekly).

Yes, I'm on the far end of the bell-curve there, because I cheat, and have actual rewards for people who donate (it's a game development blog). But a surprising portion of those who donate say "no thanks, don't want anything," so that isn't the entire reason.

matvoz• 12 years ago

I have a donate button on one of my projects. The site gets 1k+ visitors per day but in the last 4 months since I have the button I only got one donation. It is not as high on my priority list, so I haven't fiddled with it yet.

fegu• 12 years ago

One donation per month of 5 to 30 USD from a website with 6k visitors per day.

mike-cardwell• 12 years ago

Somebody sent me $5 through Paypal once for https://grepular.com/blog/. I also had a few people send me bitcoins back when they weren't worth very much. And I've had about 38 flattrs too. My blog has been around for about 4 years. Needless to say, I don't do it for the money ;)

akg_67• 12 years ago

Less than 1% of my registered users have donated. The average donor contribution is little over $20. I have a few donors who donate on regular basis.

Recently, I started offering donor exclusive features on my site. It is still too early to know the change in donation trend.

bmelton• 12 years ago

I run a comic book related forum with thousands of registered members, but of which only a hundred or so are active at any particular time.

In the order of donations, I run a yearly fund-raising effort (ala Wikipedia) in which I specify the target as the cost of hosting (~$800 or so, give or take), and I've yet to go a year where I didn't make that goal (though I haven't attempted to fund raise every year).

Communities are of course different from the average web app, utility or program, as communities tend to take care of themselves.

davidgerard• 12 years ago

Not a penny, in several years. I eventually just gave up and made it a "Donate to Wikipedia" button.

benbojangles• 12 years ago

$0 since I put a donate link up last month: http://dalybulge.blogspot.co.uk/ $1.07 per month in ad revenues. Any ideas to help me increase would be greatly appreciated.

How much do you make from donations for your website?

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