Overnight, another milestone occurred. As of 6:20 AM PST, the WUWT hit counter shows:
Thank you readers, thank you moderators, thank you guest contributors.
Traffic has slowed from about half of what it was during the heady days of Climategate and Copenhagen in December, but I note that this is not unique to WUWT, as other climate blogs have also experienced similar drops since then. However I’m pleased to say that WUWT has kept many new readers since then.
Here’s an Alexa comparison of WUWT and four other commonly visited climate websites:
For my part, I’ve gone through a period of exhaustion and illness due to keeping up the pace a couple of weeks back, and for awhile, resorted to posting a lot of press releases rather than analysis and commentary.
This is why I value the work of our volunteer moderation team and our guest contributors so much. You have my heartfelt thanks for your continued efforts.
At the moment, I’m facing survival issues with my own business due to the downturn the economy has suffered, and I’ll be unable to put as much time into WUWT as I have in the past. Even the Google Ad words hits have dropped off as the economy cools. The economy has finally caught up to my little niche.
Given the situation, I hope readers will forgive me if I showcase a weather station product or two in the future as a way to gain revenue. WUWT gets more hits than my business does, so I’d be a fool not to take advantage of this traffic. I figure many WUWT readers might be interested in some of the weather products I’ve invented and offer. Most recently I’ve been working on a personal weather radar channel, a small box that you can add to the back of any flat screen LCD TV/monitor, that gives you 24/7 automated radar display for your location, and without any data fees. Look for that in a week or two.
Again, thank you all for making WUWT the most visited climate science blog in the world. – Anthony
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Weather station products? Let’s see ’em! 🙂
Paul
I do the Alexa analysis every couple of weeks or so as well, but only with your site, Gavin’s, and Steve Mc’s. I never thought to include climate progress as I had assumed that no one visited it ever. I guess I was wrong. It’s just that people don’t comment there or they get moderated out!
You’re not even tempted to hide the decline? 🙂
Anthony and the moderators
Ok you can not work without fundings, what is the best way , using the Donate button for the surfacestations.org project?
REPLY: That or visit the weathershop icon at right and see if there is something that interests you. – Anthony
Send me a shipping address [Check your email – Thanks – Anthony]
The stats probably look like a hockey stick…but we believe you! : )
Patchy to AL: “AL, So good of you to fly from the US to North India. You are the
conscience of the earth’s climate! Say, what kind of fuel mileage
do you get in that beautiful Gulfstream?”
AL: “About 48 feet a gallon!”
Maybe Climate Progress gets intelligent readers who then all comment on how crummy Climate progress is, and then all get moderated out? Or maybe since they just echo whatever realclimate says folks comment over there instead?
I am interested in seeing your weather station products.
Anthony: The wife is going to kill you if you don’t show the cash after being chained to your computer. Do it.
Definately show the sun in your widget too. I think it helps to inject it’s equations into our thinking. This solar24 thing is interesting.
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition” (Adam Smith 1723-90)
You Sir have applied the antidote to our current poison. Semper ubi sub ubi
Congrats on the continuing up tic on WUWT. It is a privilege to be able to come to this site and read daily often more than once and once in a while contribute a little from an old worn out country boy.
Go ahead with the weather products I am currently using a LaCrosse and have had nothing but trouble with the remote rain sensor and have gone back to a manual rain bucket.
I look forward to continued education via this wonderful web site.
Bill Derryberry
REPLY: Bill I recently made the decision to dump both LaCrosse and Oregon Scientific products from our line for the same reason you cite. They are junk. I do have a cool replacement that its more accurate and trustworth, and is NIST traceable. Look for it showcased here in a couple of weeks. – Anthony
Is that possible to put real time cosmic rays reading, solar wind speed and solar proton density data into your weather radar channel?
REPLY: Not that channel, but we have another app for that. Similar setup, and you can program your own content from anywhere on the web or from your own PC/Network see http://www.viziframe.com – Anthony
Course, it’s worth pointing out that Alexa is a proxy, not a direct measurement of each site’s traffic. A fairly good proxy, I grant you, but still…
Just thought I’d throw that one out there. 😉
Congratulations on the continued success.
Please do whatever it is that you need to do. Your efforts are important.
My God Bless these United States and the Great State of Texas
…….and the good people at WUWT
Regards,
Steamboat Jack
Anthony,
We’re seeing a slight pickup in the economy. Recreational products are beginning to be purchased at about 40% of 07- 08 levels, up from about 10%. There is some light coming unless the taxes start rolling in hard and fast. We’re also seeing a pickup in construction industry but I’m not sure if it’s through govt. or private consumers.
I suspect climate progress has about 12 steady posters. Their censorship is tight.
This is many times more classy site. It is also less of a political bully pulpit. I can’t deal with Realclimate because it is composting the same single posts for too many days. Yikes. It causes me to react when every warmist site twists each little “science” finding into a political command telling people what to do.
Good idea to increase marketing your products. Very good idea. Since Big Oil is stingy, you deserve the money.
I enjoy your site Anthony, and I hope your “other” business survives and thrives. The economic situation does seem to be going downhill, especially in terms of the national debt as reported today. That, as well as the ongoing health care bill controversy, the up-coming carbon tax bill being put forth by Kerry, illegal immigration, political corruption and backroom deals, etc., all serve to move people’s attention away from discussions of climate. For the last year or so the public has been the victim of information overload, and I think a lot of folks have just tuned out altogether.
Wuttites are nothing if not loyal, Anthony, and probably a bit smarter than some of the other climate site visitors: ) Sincere congratulations for another record broken.
Congrats to Anthony, the Mod Squad, Willis and all the other guest posters! You guys work hard to keep things both interesting and civil, and your ranking is well deserved 🙂
As a new visitor to your website (4-5 months) I appreciate the effort, and many hours, you put in.
Thank you.
Congratulations!. Have you any records on what kind of posts receive more hits?
I remember, not long ago, being amazed at WUWT passing 20 million, now this milestone is one more demonstration of the high esteem in which you and your site are held.
Congratulations Anthony. Here’s to the big 5-0 !
I want you to know that I am working on a computer model which will show that all bloggers located within 1200 km of you also have 40m hits.
And if the model shows it, it must be true, right?
Congratulations! I’m responsible for a few hundred of those hits – you’re on my bookmarks for daily visits. I confess that much of what you post is over my head, but without your (and the teams) valuable efforts I would be less aware of the real situation.
Just hit up the tip jar. I’ve followed this site since it started and appreciate all the time and effort you (and the mods) put in to keep it informative, engaging, and contiously updated. I have posted maybe 4 comments in all that time so I would consider myself a lurker. If you are a fellow lurker and enjoy this site, throw in a donation.