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If anyone will appreciate this, Hacker News will: this page is un-monetized, has no ads, no cookies, no Google Trackers, and loads no external scripts. You can

If anyone will appreciate this, Hacker News will: this page is un-monetized, has no ads, no cookies, no Google Trackers, and loads no external scripts. You can check! I (the author) don't even know how many people are on the page (except that it is a lot because it's linked here). The images do load from a different domain (tylervigentest.com), but that is for a different reason. I was overwhelming my webhost with more DNS requests than it could handle.[0] I went to move my domain, but it got locked in the process (I don't know why). Offloading the images was the only way I could think to reduce the strain on the current DNS server. [0]See, for example, the comments section of the submission here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37318295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37318295

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hennell 3y ago
I think it's worth tracking how many people view a thing at least just to have a reasonable idea so things like "how many DNS requests should I be able to handle" are less of a shot in the dark. But it was nice to read something with no distracting ads, or complicated popups asking my consent for a range of mysterious cookies. I was also very much liked your inline notes system! I avoided the early notes as I'm so used to them either taking me to a new site or scrolling me to the bottom of a page and losing my place. Your inline notes were almost perfect, letting me read only extras I wanted, without losing the main thread, brilliant! Have you explored the possibility of sticking a new plaque on it calling it Bloomfield bridge?
- tylervigen 3y ago
  I mean, fair. But traffic on my site tends to be extremely spikey like this (whenever the Spurious Correlations page gets posted somewhere), so I am not sure I would ever get an accurate baseline. I don't mind paying a little extra for something that works. Also the reason I don't track pageviews is psychological: because the metric cannot impact me in any way, I avoid it so that I don't just sit around watching numbers go up. I am glad you liked the inline notes! I explored a lot of ways to do that before I settled on them. s/o to Matt Stevans for the CSS: https://www.stevans.org/inline-footnotes/ https://www.stevans.org/inline-footnotes/ I don't think the bridge needs another plaque. But the good news is that now if someone else is curious and searches the project number, they will find the answer!
- SoftTalker 3y ago
  > I think it's worth tracking how many people view a thing at least just to have a reasonable idea so things like "how many DNS requests should I be able to handle" This can be done from web server logs and doesn't require cookies or client-side scripts.
- dolmen 3y ago
  The only issue with the notes system: I don't know how to access them for copy-paste. It would be good to also have a copy somewhere in the page.

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hennell 3y ago

I think it's worth tracking how many people view a thing at least just to have a reasonable idea so things like "how many DNS requests should I be able to handle" are less of a shot in the dark. But it was nice to read something with no distracting ads, or complicated popups asking my consent for a range of mysterious cookies. I was also very much liked your inline notes system! I avoided the early notes as I'm so used to them either taking me to a new site or scrolling me to the bottom of a page and losing my place. Your inline notes were almost perfect, letting me read only extras I wanted, without losing the main thread, brilliant! Have you explored the possibility of sticking a new plaque on it calling it Bloomfield bridge?

tylervigen 3y ago
I mean, fair. But traffic on my site tends to be extremely spikey like this (whenever the Spurious Correlations page gets posted somewhere), so I am not sure I would ever get an accurate baseline. I don't mind paying a little extra for something that works. Also the reason I don't track pageviews is psychological: because the metric cannot impact me in any way, I avoid it so that I don't just sit around watching numbers go up. I am glad you liked the inline notes! I explored a lot of ways to do that before I settled on them. s/o to Matt Stevans for the CSS: https://www.stevans.org/inline-footnotes/ https://www.stevans.org/inline-footnotes/ I don't think the bridge needs another plaque. But the good news is that now if someone else is curious and searches the project number, they will find the answer!
SoftTalker 3y ago
> I think it's worth tracking how many people view a thing at least just to have a reasonable idea so things like "how many DNS requests should I be able to handle" This can be done from web server logs and doesn't require cookies or client-side scripts.
dolmen 3y ago
The only issue with the notes system: I don't know how to access them for copy-paste. It would be good to also have a copy somewhere in the page.