Ask HN: What kind of number of visitors might I expect for my blog

Hey all,

I have started a blog recently and I wanted to know what kind of number of visitors would be a good target to try and reach. I targeting the beginner/medium level of software security testers with most my articles.

I also did one article on corporate spying.

I have had around 200 visitors to my blog with a spike last week (50 and 65 per day after posting on the link HN). I would like to have a solid base of visitors, this is of course not realistic at this moment, it will take time to build a reputation and get know around the interwebz.

The actual questions are thus:

1. What number of visitors is realistic (lets say within 48 after posting an article 2. At what point (number of subscriptions, number of visitors) can you speak about a known blog 3. How would you quantify what people think about the quality of a blog, I was thinking about backtracks, good vs bad comments ...

Thx a lot for your insights