Comments on: WUWT visitor traffic holding steady

By: George E. Smith

George E. Smith — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:09:16 +0000

Anthony,

Congratulations on the numbers; even the adjusted ones, even Hansen and Mann adjust their numbers; must be the mark of a well run operation.

Do you archive stuff, and is there away to get it. I think your GISS/RSS/UAH/HADcrut comparison is deserving ofa n encore performance just the refresh what that was all about. aprticularly in light of the great ice melt caper, and your UHI studies, people might want to revisit that comparison chart, since all those other things are presumably a result of the big 4 activities.

Just asking.

George

REPLY: It is all archived, just use the search box. – Anthony

By: Hank McCard

Hank McCard — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:10:35 +0000

Anthony,

I heartily join the chorus of those who truly appreciate your insights and dedicated efforts to focus attenion on important weather and climate matters.

Thanks for a job well done!!

By: Phillip Bratby

Phillip Bratby — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:56:56 +0000

Yet again Christopher Booker in the Sunday Telegraph, with another of his excellent articles, is doing his best to publicise “the admirable Watts Up With That website”. See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/02/do0207.xml . Keep it coming Anthony.

By: Mike Bryant

Mike Bryant — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:41:56 +0000

Rob,
There must be some computer expert among the readers who could easily remedy that.

By: PaulH

PaulH — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:03:42 +0000

I have a technical question about how visits are counted. I use the Google Reader to monitor RSS feeds. With Google Reader, I can read the content of new posts on this site without actually having to click through to here. Are the various counters smart enough to count that as a “visit” or should I come here each time to be counted?

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:53:19 +0000

Anthony,

If I google CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTIC the fourth hit down is David Suzuki, then the BBC who reference Gristmill, You are now one of the top climate skeptical blogs, why are you not on the first page, google climate change or global warming and I can`t find you.
If you appeared on the first page I believe your hits would be stratospheric and many more looking for enlightenment would find you.
The third hit down is (climate change skeptic) that should be you.

REPLY: You have a point, perhaps I’ll change the masthead. When I coined it, I wasn’t focused as much on weather and climate as I am now. Perhaps it is time for a change so that search engines find it better.

Anthony

By: Lucia

Lucia — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:35:53 +0000

I have blog envy.

Still– Ditto what SteveM said. I’m sure there must be some blog equivalent of “urban heat island adjustment”. Let’s apply that and get your real stats. :)

By: Julian Flood

Julian Flood — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:46:31 +0000

Dear oh dear, adjusted numbers. You’ll have the climate auditors after you…

JF
PS shame you shut down the methane uptick thread. I was going to post an answer to the puzzle. It’s on my website and has been since Feb 06.

REPLY: I’ll give a try reopening it, but if it strays badly off topic again like it did yesterday, I’m going to close it again. – Anthony

By: Peter Pond

Peter Pond — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:58:17 +0000

Over 800,000 hits per month is impressive. We are indebted to those people, like yourself, who have the enthusiasm, knowledge, time and skills to provide background to one of the most important issues of our day. Thank you.

By: evanjones

evanjones — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:03:34 +0000

Nobody beats the Rev!

By: Katlab

Katlab — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:51:39 +0000

Well, I’ve been talking you up on the MSN blogs, so I hope that helps. I was so proud when they started a discussion on the MSN Money Politics site without me on how Global Warming doesn’t seem to be happening. For a long time I was the lone looney. I told them, I would stay and yell loud enough and long enough until someone actually paused when they heard that the warmest month were in October and November.

Keep up the good work, guys. I’m not a scientist but I am a statistician. Garbage in, garbage out. Beware Mr.Gore! I have a mouth and I know how to use it.

By: iceFree

iceFree — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:57:15 +0000

Its a big thanks to you Anthony, thank you for a truly great forum where even the little guy can have his say. WUWT is a true republic.

By: Smokey

Smokey — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:57:13 +0000

Thanx for that link, Leon B. The trend is clear: RealClimate and Climate Crisis are definitely falling. WUWT is probably picking up some of the folks who don't like the fact that Al Gore's site and Gavin Schmidt's site both arbitrarily delete/censor posts that contradict their True Belief in globaloney. Score one for honesty and fair dealing.

By: Steve M.

Steve M. — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:20:51 +0000

Maybe you can do some creative adjustments like GISS and you’d have record months every time :)

By: Leon Brozyna

Leon Brozyna — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:59:37 +0000

Still, congrats are in order.

Keep up the good work and who knows, maybe one of the big boys on the web will pick up on one of your posts and help punch up your numbers in the future.

As for right now, I see your blog stats have been moving at a good pace this month. Probably break 6 million before Thanksgiving.

Also, your numbers are looking pretty good at Alexa:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/wattsupwiththat.com?site0=realclimate.org&site1=wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com&site2=wattsupwiththat.com&site3=climatecrisis.net&y=r&z=2&h=300&w=610&c=1&u%5B%5D=realclimate.org&u%5B%5D=wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com&u%5B%5D=wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com&u%5B%5D=climatecrisis.net&x=2008-06-07T14%3A13%3A10.000Z&check=www.alexa.com&signature=4DQ6f7l6e6EWYI8FTiVhrxCq5Fo%3D&range=1m&size=Large

Even more revealing at Alexa is the trend for your site compared to RealClimate and Gore’s ClimateCrisis long downward decline: