The New Hotness

The overall page view count may be down, but people have been replacing water heater anode rods at an increasing pace:

Home page / Archives	23775
Water Heater Anode Rod Access Done Right	8432
CNC 3018-Pro: GRBL Configuration	5301
G-Code and M-Code Grand Master List	5049
Why You Need a 6-Point Socket to Remove a Water Heater Anode Rod	4300
American Standard Elite Kitchen Faucet Disassembly	2621
Toyota Sienna: ABS Trouble Codes	2531
Raspberry Pi: Forcing VNC Display Resolution	2011
CNC 3018-ProXL: Y-axis Extension	1641
Subaru Forester Fuse Boxes	1276
Broom Handle Screw Thread: Replacement Plug	1239
Removing a Water Heater Anode Rod	1221
Auto-V.I.N Gauge Scam	1029
Low Budget Bench Power Supply	984
CNC 3018-Pro: DRV8825 Hack for 1:8 Microstep Mode	980
Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball: Scroll Ring Troubles	929
Whirlpool Water Heater “Lifetime” Warranty: The Good and the Bad	917
Digital Tattoo Power Supply: Polarity Doesn’t Matter	912
Bed Bugs: Thermal Kill	908
Review Phreesia Authorization	834
Huion H610Pro (V2) Tablet vs. Ubuntu 18.04	821
Kenmore 158.17032 Handwheel Clutch Disassembly	799
Shimano SPD Pedals: Creaking Resolved	788
2000 Toyota Sienna: Replacing the Bank 1 Sensor 2 Oxygen Sensor	753
Schwab / Symantec VIP Access vs. Yubikey	751
Toyota Sienna: Rear ABS / Speed Sensor Failure	729
HP-48GX Calculator Disassembly: Case Rivets	688
Reversible Belt Buckle: Post Restaking	683
Kensington Expert Mouse Scroll Ring Fix	629
Makerbot-style Endstop Power Adapter for Protoneer Arduino CNC Shield	616
Displaying Variables in Gnuplot	614
Kohl’s Guest WiFi Terms & Conditions: The Short Version	613
Replacing Phil Wood Hub Bearings	595
Magnesium Water Heater Anode Rod: Seven Years Later	576
Adding a Device to LTSpiceIV	564
Philips Sonicare Essence 5000: Battery Replacement	550
Browning Hi-Power Magazine Dimensions	545
MPCNC: Emergency Stop / Feed Hold / Resume Pendant	544
Raspberry Pi Interrupts vs. Rotary Encoder	538
CNC 3018-Pro: Home Switches	534
Resistance Soldering: Transformer	510
Adafruit Touch-screen TFT LCD Rotation	489
Quick-and-easy IR-passing / Visible-blocking Optical Filter	476
Dis-arming a Steelcase Leap Chair	471
Icecast and Ezstream Configuration	470
Why You Shouldn’t Use Heat Pumps in the Northeast US	465
Baofeng UV-5R Squelch Settings	460
Mini-Lathe Tailstock: Alignment	449
Homebrew Magnetizer-Demagnetizer	446
Arduino Serial Optical Isolator	444
Mysterious Noise in Toyota Sienna Minivan: Fixed!	444
Baofeng UV-5: Squelch Pop Suppression	434
bCNC Probe Camera Calibration	432
Demolition Card GTA 5-10-9	431
Multimeter Range Switch Contacts: Whoops!	425
Realigning Tweezer Tips	421
Schwalbe Marathon Plus and Michelin Protek vs. Glass Chip	418
Kenmore Model 158 Speed Control: Carbon Disk Replacement	417
Kenmore Electric Dryer: Power Resistor Replacement	416
Old Kenmore Sewing Machine Foot Control Repair	414
Closing the Dmesg Audit Firehose	400

That adds up to 200 k page views from 122 k visitors, for an average of 1.6 pages / visitor, down slightly from last year. For a variety of reasons, I wrote only 242 posts over the course of the year, so more folks read only the single post matching their search terms.

To give you an idea of how awful online advertising has become, WordPress shoveled 817 k ads at those readers, slightly more than four ads per view. Given the toxicity of online advertising, I just started paying $50/year for a “personal” plan to get a few more gigabytes of media storage, which also let me turn off the ads. Most of you won’t notice, as you already run ad blockers, but it will calm the results for everybody else.

Fortunately, losing the $250 / year income from those ads won’t significantly affect my standard of living.