Cloudflare sent me this email:

Getting to 10K is no easy task and we hope you continue to grow and we are glad you chose Cloudflare to provide services for your website.

21981 Pageviews

Small celebration: 🚀🎉

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This was an unexpected milestone, I started this blog in mid-2025 just to have a place to write and share my thoughts. Also bonus was that building this made me learn some Ruby and Jekyll for building web applications. One more framework/language added.

Tiny confusion

Now, honestly I don’t know whether to celebrate or not since I’m not sure if this is human traffic or just bots. 10k seems like a lot (20k actually from pageviews) since July 2025 , but then again it might be a small number for a blog. I just wanted to share this because I feel some devs might actually know if this is a big deal.

Anyway, I did a careful small celebration🎉🎉, and back to work I go. 🚶🏽 Here’s a screenshot of my homepage for today:

Also posted on dev.to for Richard Djarbeng

Additional comments:

Reaching a milestone of 10,000 pageviews on rdjarbeng.com is a significant achievement for this blog. This journey began in mid 2025 as a simple creative outlet for sharing thoughts and personal insights. Beyond the writing, the process of building this site provided an excellent opportunity to learn Ruby and gain hands on experience with the Jekyll framework. Adding another language and tool to a developer toolkit remains a major personal success.

While Cloudflare confirmed over 20,000 total pageviews since July, a healthy dose of skepticism remains regarding the nature of this traffic. Distinguishing between genuine human readers and automated bot activity is a common challenge for web developers. Regardless of the traffic source, this growth serves as a motivation to keep refining the platform and creating content. A small celebration is in order before turning focus back to new projects and further technical exploration.