In early August Cloudflare sent me a congratulations email. The site had passed ten thousand pageviews in its first month: 33,561, on a domain that went live on 5 July.
For about ten seconds it was good news.
Then I remembered what I had done in July, which was open robots.txt to every AI crawler in existence. Training included, on purpose. I have no brand to protect and my problem is not that someone copies me: it is that nobody finds me. So everyone gets in.
Which makes that number, taken as it is, good for nothing.
Why does a pageview count not tell you how many people read you?
