Welcome to the other side! Glad to see you š
From now on I am deliberately handicapped when it comes to judging how many readers I have. I still see stats in feedburner (thatās a Google service that Iāve used since 2006 to give my RSS feed a constant, never-changing address), but other than that, there is no Google Analytics, no StatCounter nor anything else. In other words: I canāt track you.
Itās not that I couldnāt do it on a static blog. Everybody does. Itās only that I think I donāt need that any more. Iāve done it for a long time and Iāve learned that I cannot increase my readership without investing a lot of time. And even then, there is an upper limit, that I canāt break with my type of content. In its best times the blog had about 500 readers per day, on good days a few thousands. 90% of them came for a handful of posts.
I had one of the first āuser experience reviewsā of the Nikon D300 online, and for one lens, the Tamron 17-50/2.8 VC, I had the only review for a long time. I did some comparisons between DxO versions, I produced some Photoshop tutorials, and that drew most of the traffic.
If youāve done that for a few years, it stops having appeal. It is just work. As I always say, thanks, I have a job š
Iāve also stopped having ads on the blog. I used to have amazon ads, mainly as a means to link to music, but Iāve removed them as well. They didnāt earn me money anyway, and nowadays they would make the blog count as ācommercialā - with all the implications this has in times of the GDPR.
Therefore: if you like what you see, and if you want to do me a favor: drop me a comment š