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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 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

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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?

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/

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!

> 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.

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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