Congratulations are in order for hitting the 60-million mark in page-views. As you can see from the Alexa traffic rank, WUWT has remained steadfastly popular since that pesky ClimateGate story a year ago. Way to go Anthony!
The traffic rank starts with Google at #1, Facebook at #2, YouTube at #3, Yahoo at #4…on down to WUWT which is at #15,974.
From four years ago,
Welcome to: Watts Up With That?
Posted on November 17, 2006 by Anthony Watts
As a frequent contributor to other blogs, I’ve found it to be a fun way of sharing ideas and discussions. I’d been toying with the idea of doing one of my own for awhile, and now that elections are over I felt the time was right as it appears I’ll have more time on my hands 😉
The idea here on this blog is somewhat “gee-whiz” in nature. I’ve always been fascinated by useful trivia, i.e. things that make you think rather than pointless things like Britney’s and KFed’s latest celebrity gossip.
If you’ve ever wondered about something puzzling, anything, or how things work, or why certain things are the way they are instead of some other way that might appear to make more sense, this is the place to pose the question. Hopefully I and others can supply an answer. Nothing is off-limits except crude language or personal attacks.
For example: Have you ever wondered “why the sky is blue during the day and black at night”? Or “why does your urine smell funny after eating Asparagus”? How about “why do cats appear aloof to their owners and dogs don’t”? “Does Disc Golf cause cancer”? (with apologies to Lon) These are the kinds of Q&A tidbits I’ll address here, plus occasionally some commentary on recent events.
Like Alan Chamberlain on “Dog’s Breakfast”, I prefer posts from people whom identify themselves. Handles are OK as long as I know who they belong to. But if there is a good reason that you want to make an anonymous post, I’ll consider it. There’s a moniker used on the popular tech discussion board Slashdot for such posts called “anonymous coward”, which may be a good way to describe “Tell it to the ER”. But hey, if you have something to say jump in, just be civil.
So does anybody have any gee-whiz questions?
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Almost equals the UK population!
Congrats. Climategate is what brought me here to stay
To celebrate this milestone I recommend a re-post of this:-
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2006/11/17/welcome-to-watts-up-with-that/
to remind everyone just how spectacularly this site has grown, all because of us, the visitors, the oft-derided but never dissuaded sceptics.
Let all WUWTers raise a glass of their preferred libation on 17th November, wherever they may be, and drink a bumper toast to this site, to Anthony and, most importantly, to the Mods. This site is now recognised internationally as being one of the very best. The 60 million mark shows this!
So. Who’s in for the International “Cheers to Watts Up With That” global toast?
We could all write in just to let the WUWT Team know in which countries their supporters are!
congrats anthony and friends –
are u planning an online climategate anniversary party?
perhaps we could all offer our best moments of the past twelve months.
If I, err, Anthony had a penny for each page view here, well, he’d deserve it!
Where is the pesky “Lower values mean higher traffic with Alexa rankings” explanation?
Come on, people always ask about that!
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almost a hockey stick!
congratulations anthony, mods, and contributors
Whoo-hoo! Congratulations. (And I can say I was there when it was a paltry 40 million.)
Man, I knew I’d been hitting WUWT a lot lately, but that’s ridiculous!
Congratulations, Anthony (and mods, and visitors)!
An interesting point of comparison can be obtained here: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/realclimate.org#. (It is not looking good for true believers.)
We can be sure that furious copy-and-pasting will ensue.
Nice work Anthony & all the other contributors & mods. Is there a big party at 100,000,000? Might be a fun contest to predict when that will happen.
Congratulations . Just sorry I didn’t know about WUWT before late ’08 . You’re doing more good than you know , Anthony .
Yep, my day is incomplete without a visit to WUWT. Michael asked, “when the 100 M mark will be set”? My guess is, within the next 16 months, around 2nd quarter 2012.
Ryan: that’s a pretty good status quo extrapolation based upon site stats.
I enjoy the education i received contributing to the hit count. Great job Anthony! Watching our back and keeping that hockey stick Firmly planted in their ribs.
Fantastic, Anthony!!
Stephen Brown says:
November 8, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Let all WUWTers raise a glass of their preferred libation on 17th November, wherever they may be, and drink a bumper toast to this site, to Anthony and, most importantly, to the Mods.
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Perhaps we should hold out until the weekend, and raise a glass of the Beaujolais Nouveau which, according to Berkeley’s finest purveyor of wonderful wines, the great Kermit Lynch “is a return to classic, bygone Beaujolais, thanks to conditions that used to be typical but have since become rare: a long, cool growing season, followed by a late harvest.”
It’s probably less than two years since we were bombarded with stories of the wine industry collapsing because of global warming, and the skiing industry too. I guess I’ve got my weekend planned on the 20th/21st – party at Kermit’s on Saturday with cool-grown Beaujolais, then up to the mountains on Sunday to ski some powder.
Congratulations Anthony. If you’re in the neighborhood on the 20th, I’d love to raise a glass with ya.
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/504/kermitbeaujolaisnouveau.jpg
Thanks, Anthony. I love this site. As someone who grew up in Yuba City, may your winters be drier and your summers cooler.
I am trying to figure out if this deserves a Darth Vader quote or an Alliance one. It kinda depends on the point of view. Are we the good guys or the bad guys? Vader is much cooler (was until those silly movies at least).
I am torn. I guess based on the recent empire strikes back article we much be the Alliance. So here it goes….
“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
😀
John Kehr
Excelsior! 🙂
And over your first 10 days you got an amazing 11 comments. Now I guess you get about 11 comments every 10 minutes! Congratualtions!
WUWT Index from day 1
http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/monthly.html
tell everybody including all the young ones
Um, why is the chart flipped? Is this some reference I am missing to “how to mislead the public”? Or am I just too dum to read a chart correctly? :-\ Talking about the traffic scale on the left hand side.
My Gee Whiz Question: “Can it rain without a cloud in the sky?” (I happen to know the answer but want to see what others come up with)
[How far from “overhead” must a cloud be to be considered “clear sky” ? 8<) …. Civil War: Battles were fought in the rain, with no clouds in sight. Robt]
I wandered by in early 2007 after hearing a rumor there was something wrong with the surface stations . . .
Since then . . .
I have been a moderator for two years, which I regard as a high honor. I have surveyed (mostly, but not entirely, via satellite image and interview) well over 200 stations. (I FINALLY found Lake Placid, NY, and nailed the new location for the Key West ASOS, which I have just uploaded to surfacestations.org.) I have been privileged to work with Anthony on various projects.
I have been over it so many times, I regard the USHCN as my MMTS brothers and my CRS sisters. (I still try to hunt down the few remaining lost sheep.)
I think I can say I have enjoyed one hell of a ride, and I look forward to loads more!
“So does anybody have any gee-whiz questions?”
If I put a dead Gopher in a mailbox, will it go to heaven?
Cheers and congrats Anthony!
[Watt you meant was “How long will it gopher?” Robt]
Gosh. And unless I misremember we we were all astounded when WUWT went through the million mark. Seems it has grown a bit since then. Anyway congratulations Anthony you seem to have got something going here.
Kindest Regards.