AdSense Revenue Calculator

Project your daily, monthly and yearly AdSense earnings from your traffic.

Enter your traffic and either your CTR and CPC or your page RPM. You will get daily, monthly and yearly projections, plus a twelve-month forecast that compounds your traffic growth.

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The two ways to model AdSense income

If you know your click-through rate and cost per click, earnings are simply pageviews × ad units × CTR × CPC. If you already have AdSense data, page RPM is more reliable because it bakes in every variable Google applies. RPM is revenue per thousand pageviews, so earnings are pageviews ÷ 1000 × RPM.

Page RPM versus ad RPM

Page RPM measures revenue against pageviews; ad RPM measures it against individual ad impressions. Three ad units on a page produce three impressions from one pageview, so ad RPM is roughly a third of page RPM in that scenario. Comparing the two by mistake makes performance look far worse or better than it is.

Niche decides almost everything

The same traffic volume earns very different amounts depending on subject. Insurance, legal services, finance and B2B software attract high bids. Entertainment, general news and free-download traffic attract low ones. A tenfold difference in RPM between niches is entirely normal, which is why generic benchmarks are close to useless.

Geography and season

Traffic from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia typically earns several times what traffic from South Asia earns, because advertisers bid more there. Earnings also rise sharply in the fourth quarter as advertising budgets peak, then fall in January.

More ad units is not more money

Beyond a point, extra ad units cannibalise each other, slow the page and push readers away. Rising impressions with falling RPM is the signal that you have crossed that line.

Frequently asked questions

What is a realistic CTR for AdSense?
Most content sites see between 1% and 2%. Anything much above that deserves scrutiny, because artificially inflated clicks are the fastest route to having your account closed.
How much does AdSense pay per thousand views?
Page RPM varies from well under a dollar to well over ten, driven mainly by niche and audience country. Use your own AdSense data rather than a published average.
How much of the revenue does Google keep?
Publishers receive 68% of the revenue Google collects from AdSense for Content. The remaining share is Google's.
Are these projections guaranteed?
No. They are arithmetic applied to the numbers you entered. Actual earnings depend on advertiser demand, seasonality, traffic quality and policy compliance.