Revenue from AdSense I had was around $1.8. Maybe even less. 3 days ago I switched to Ezoic, where the EPMV is already $6.05 based od 2 days data. I am not sure how they measure this, because there is a huge difference in traffic according to Ezoic vs Google. Google shows less pageview, so if I count revenue from Ezoic vs traffic from Google, the EMPV is 20% lower. According to what people say about my niche, the AVG EPMV here is $12-18. I am not gonna have it so high due to the fact that I place all adds manually, all of them below the fold, no sticky bars, one format only, so it will be great to have it on the level of $9-10. From what I see, there is a huge difference in adds clicking on mobile vs desktop ($4 vs $12). Definitely I need to work on the 1st one.
From what I see and observe in other's statistics, working with low competition KW (0-10) many times do not generate this spectacular hockey stick effect. Yesterday I analyzed data from PhilReddit7 and this confirms my theory that it is no longer as it used to be 3-5 years ago. Consistent article posting (no link building) very often generates more like linear increase in traffic rather than hockey stick effect so maybe you can keep writing 1 article per day till the end of the year? I think you mentioned some time ago you considered doing it? I am sure you will double the traffic withing 3 months from now by doing this.