[modeless]

Page views are ~140 million per month: https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1604768632331870209/photo...

Assuming $0.50 net CPM on one AdSense unit per page view, that would be $70k monthly/$840k yearly revenue. And since operating cost is $100, that's all profit. I'm no AdSense expert but I believe this would be super conservative, maybe an expert could chime in with higher realistic numbers. Even if you don't like advertising there are other ways you could earn money with a site like SteamDB.

[loyski]

Cloudflare stats are inflated. I have a site getting 30k visits a day according to Google Analytics but Cloudflare says it's close to 100k. So I think Cloudflare doesn't filter out bots in their analytics.

[Kiro]

Why are you doubting the numbers? All gamers use this site. Anything less than a huge number would be unthinkable.

[loyski]

I'm not doubting the stats, just saying that Cloudflare is not an accurate gauge of website views and visits. Cloudflare shows 3x the pageviews on my site than Google Analytics.

[hn92726819]

A man with two watches...

Why do you think google analytics is more right than cloudflare? Adblock can block GA, but it can't block cloudflare

[MCArth]

Google analytics numbers don't include users with adblock

[Hello71]

isn't that what you want if you want to calculate adsense revenue?

[modeless]

For page views (not "Visits") on my site, Cloudflare is within 10% of Google. Your experience doesn't necessarily apply universally.