The WordPress.com stats team prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. I’ve supplemented it at the end with some additional info.
Here’s an excerpt:
About 2,500,000 people visit MoMA in New York every year. This blog was viewed about 42,000,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at MoMA, it would take about 17 years for that many people to see it.
Click here to see the complete report.
2015 turned out to be slightly lower than 2014 in terms of total viewers and views, but it is still the second most busy year since the blog started in November 2006.
December of 2015 was our best month, owing to coverage of COP21, AGU15, and our new presentation at AGU on the surfacestations project:
WUWT remains the #1 climate related blog in the world, and our detractors would be thrilled to get even a fraction of the reach we get.
In 2016, there will be some changes and improvements, which I’ll outline in an upcoming post.
For now, I wish a Happy and prosperous New Year to everyone who helps make WUWT what it is, including the guest authors, moderators, readers, and yes even my detractors, whom I’m sure will find some obtuse and amusing way to turn this success into a negative.
Thanks as every year for the hard work Anthony and all contributors and moderaters do. Fewer views in 2015 may be a good sign. Perhaps the tide of disinformation is indeed turning and washed the garbage out to sea where it belongs.
The complete report tells me that WUWT was viewed in 237 countries. About 39 more countries than seem to exist.
Adam
Maybe they’re counting territories too??
They count geographic areas by IP address (provided by Counterize), most of which are countries (the 196-ish members of the United Nations). However, if you spend a few minutes with the map, you will quickly find places like Greenland counted as a country when clearly it is still part of Denmark, and places like the South Sudan which are no longer part of any country.
And all 57 States – BHO
57 + “one left to go” = 58
“I’ve been in…. fifty….. seven?… states. One left to go. Uh, one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii I was not allowed to go to {hyuck, hyuck} … .”
Poseur President
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People STILL assert that the man is “bright.” Yeah. Cunning, yes, bright, no. Those who think so either have not been paying attention for the past 8 years or are pretending. It is one thing to say, “I don’t speak Austrian” or “… 57 states…” and the like and immediately correct oneself for a verbal “typo.” He never does. His “gaffes” are living proof of a below-average mind. Sad — but — true. He has “the dull cunning of the snake,” nevertheless, therefore, he is (thanks to those who do his writing and thinking for him) dangerous.
Why bother to criticize this lame duck? Because he is STILL promoted (even by WUWTers, once in awhile) as “bright,” and thereby, his economy-wrecking policies are abetted (for a “bright” man is the one arguing for them).
http://www.rockyhigh66.org/stuff/obama_armstrong.jpg
And Janice, we are doomed to endure another full year of his deliberated mischief, before any replacement can be sworn in.
I believe that one left to go was Hawaii.
However, the president continues to leave out the fact he often visits the state of Confusion and the state of Denial.
Okay, so 59.
Well I believe it IS the correct number of moslem countries.
Welcome to 2016 everyone!
With snow a-blowing and a severe chill in the air, Waterloo greeted the new year with a change of tone. And where to seek the news of the day? Why, WUWT of course!
Here we find the world of climate science intersecting the world of common sense with good humour and confidence that all will (eventually) be well.
The charlatans of climate alarm are now more than ever preoccupied with the leaks in their strange vessel, as the cold waters of reality dissolve their feet of clay. The pirate ship AGW is sinking with its ill-gotten treasure and there is no lifeline coming that way.
Punching holes in that ship of doom is now mere sport as the GW powder is wet and the fuse has gone dark.
Common sense dictates that we turn our attention to helping humanity cope with the coming cold, devoting our efforts to increasing the energy efficiency of homes, transport and industry.
We must build an ever-advancing civilisation, never allowing anyone to undo the wonderful advances the finest of minds have created over past centuries.
Make this the year in which you resolve to dedicate yourself to worthy causes of peace and prosperity.
Anthony,
Thanks for all the effort you put into WUWT. It is truly an oasis in the desert of propaganda from the MSM. I was so fortunate to find this blog which allowed me to retain some sanity on the global warming issue
Catcracking
You took the words right out of my mind.
Anthony, unfortunately, I found this site a little too late. I met with Dr Richard Alley of PSU for lunch in the Corner Room restaurant in September of ’07. Had I been armed with more information from your site, that conversation might have reached a brilliant scientist who is woefully misguided and should know better. Or he just says what he needs to for continued funding. And his last words to me set off alarm bells but I was out of bullets and let them pass.
“It has to be CO2, we can’t think of anything else!”
This from the man whose excellent work on ice core samples from Greenland and Vostock proved that CO2 concentrations ALWAYS lags Earth’s temperature changes!
My background in Process Control tells me that lagging variables are never forcings, they are resultants. But I acquiesced to authority. Thanks to your hard work and the information I’ve gained from WUWT, that won’t happen again.
Many thanks for all your hard work in bringing the truth about climate change to light. I log on to this blog almost every day.
Bill Yarber
Cat, William,
I, too, wish to express my thanks to WUWT, its founder and all the mods, and all the contributors.
Many, many thanks!
Wisdom – and humour – to sustain me when the massed intellects of governments keep reminding me that their x = 0.
Facts – lots of them; and opinions – thank goodness not all the same.
Now, the science isn’t settled, and WUWT keeps proving that – but adding knowledge, sometimes, too.
And a Happy, Healthy and Warm [enough] New Year!
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I believe that 2015 was a landmark year for WUWT in that it revealed to us, perhaps a greater number of peer reviewed scientific reasons for catastrophic man made global warming climate change, than any previous year, thereby putting the kibosh on the very notion that the science is settled.
It clearly isn’t, just by the sheer number of unprecedented newly revealed discoveries of previously unknown causes for climate change.
May I predict Anthony, that the best year of WUWT is yet to come.
Congratulations.
Congratulations Anthony and happy new year.
Googling ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ used to bring up Wattsupwiththat and other skeptical blogs around page 3. Now, I notice on google, yahoo and Ask, there don’t come up AT ALL – one side of the argument has been effectively ‘disappeared’.
I think this most worrying – but it’s also amazing that so many people have found you.
Seems to be the case also in DuckDuckGo search, where even uncyclopedia came up before WUWT… Doesn’t matter too much though. The generations Y and Z seem to have understood the cAGW essence alright. Enjoy. http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Climate_change
Googling “climate change skeptics” finds the first three slots occupied by SKS and Wikipedia. WUWT is #21. Googling “climate change skepticism” results are similar, but WUWT is #24.Googling “global warming skepticism” is similar, with WUWT #34.
Interesting- on google.ca the search results are #10, #98 and #28. If Search global warming skepticism without the quotes, then WUWT is #4.
Happy New Year to you all.
Search on defyccc.com/search
I have just tried to Google
“global warming, climate change blog”
WUW – about 9th.
Not as high as it should be, I think – but on page 1.
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Oops. The correct link is defyccc.com/search
SEO is something that the others do a lot of, and Anthony doesn’t. That’s why they appear at the top of Google’s results.
Try googling “most popular climate blog”. WUWT comes first. https://www.google.co.th/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#tbs=qdr:m&q=most+popular+climate+blog
I was in China a couple of years ago and found that WUWT was blocked. Is that still the case?
The Chinese clearly believe the concept of CAGW is a complete correct, no matter what His Obarminess might think, so what has Anthony done to upset the mighty Peoples Democracy?
Well, Christiana Figueres said that chinese communism is a better regime to fight climate change than democracy. That is my biggest worry when it comes to climate change.
The Chinese People’s (lol) Republic wants the U.S. voter to keep on voting for windmills and against the Keystone Pipeline and other such economic suicide measures. And our own U.S. Enviroprofiteers (Steven M0sher works for one, IIRC) happily help them.
WUWT is about truth in science, but it is mainly about freedom.
That is why I DETEST S. M0sher and his ilk – by promoting AGW, the Enviroprofiteers are destroying their own country for personal gain.
GO, ANTHONY!! GO, MODERA-TORS!! GO, POST AUTHORS AND ALL YOU GREAT COMMENTERS!!
FREEDOM ROCKS! (and so do you… and you…… and, yes, YOU!
Janice, darling, put….the pom poms…..down! (hands you a paper bag to breathe in)
I adore you and WUWT! Happy New Year everyone and may 2016 be Anthony’s biggest year yet!
Thanks for reminder, Aphan. Always good to be reminded that my personality may be delightful to many, but it is obnoxious to some. And, no, thanks. I’ll just keep on being “breathless” me. Just scroll on by…… many do….. .
Janice in my ozzy parlance you are a princess. Anthony does a wonderful job, you enhance the blog roll.
Happy new year to all, the farce has not long to run, as the sun soon will be on sabbatical leave.
Dear Wayne Job,
Thank you.
With blushing rose gratitude,
Janice
Peter Miller
I too found that WUWT can’t be opened, let alone found in China as recently as 2013. I believe the next big battle is going to be for the internet itself. The failing soshulist big try will be ever mindful that a free internet was no small part of their failure. You can be sure that for such control freaks, the internet is far and away number one on their list to do something about. Something this good can’t be allowed to last.
Happy New Year to all,
especially Anthony n the mods:-)
lets hope and strive to keep chipping away at the idiocyAGW etc meme of the warmists brigade
Reblogged this on Wolsten and commented:
“About 2,500,000 people visit MoMA in New York every year. This blog was viewed about 42,000,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at MoMA, it would take about 17 years for that many people to see it.”
Not bad for an independent unpaid blogger on climate change. Well done Anthony Watts!
Thanks for what you do, keeping us updated on the latest information. I have noticed many warmist blogs and forums are dying slowly. Some have had no comments since 2012. The truth is getting harder to find everyday. Happy New Year!
Congrats and Happy New Year, Anthony, you are selflessly doing a fantastic job for the entire world.
The decline in views in 2015 was due to…
wait for it…
Climate Change!
Happy New Year to everyone here. Especially to Anthony and moderators.
This year I installed Calor gas central heating and had my external walls fully insulated courtesy of the Green Steal from the UK government. Notice that I did not install a swimming pool or air conditioning. Thanks WUWT for letting me make decisions based on reality and not on hype from the climate catastrophists.
How much insulation did you add i.e. what does “fully insulated” imply these days in the UK?
Thanks, Tony.?
I’ve been heating my home with logs cut (by me) from trees felled (by me) on my own land.
No green steal is available for such use efficient use of renewable energy.
However – if I were to install a pellet burner and take delivery of pellets made from trees felled in N. America then I would doubtlessly be granted access to generous govt. subsidies.
I suppose that this would be more convenient for me, also, since I could then simply heap the logs from my land into piles and burn them in the open. Cutting them into stove sized lengths and carting them to the house has always been a slight nuisance.
Why is my govt. taking money from me and offering to return some of it to me as a reward for increasing my carbon footprint?
I notice that I could also reduce my yearly car tax, by scrapping my super-efficient 1999 eco-diesel and buying a less efficient car manufactured in 2000. This because the reduced car tax incentive only applies to cars manufactured from that date.
So, perhaps I should cynically increase my carbon footprint in order to gain access to this magic money pot!!!
Happy New Year to all, especially Anthony and ‘the mods’.
42 000 000 from 237 countries – Pretty impressive by any standard. Well done.
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Another simile.
Wembley Stadium is the English national Association Football [Soccer] stadium; it has a capacity of 90,000.
Fill it every day in 2015, and that would be just about 33 million.
Well short of the 42,000,000 views of WUWT.
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Not quite clear as to your point auto.
Congratulations!
Happy New Year!
(The Bloom is off at least one site)
Well done, AW. Perhaps the slight drop off in the views were a natural result of the changes in style, and this will take some time to work through, especially as a few more changes are on the way.
One of the changes – actually, a reinstatement of a feature – I recall asking for during the changes was that the number of comments on a post should be shown. Curiously, when I view WUWT through my tablet phone there is a count of comments with each post, but not when using my (Chrome) browser.
Have a great 2016. Keep warm!
Thanks Anthony and moderators for all the great work you have done, and for all you do!
Congratulations to you Anthony and the moderators for all the good work! Keep up with that for as long as necessary (still years to go, I suppose…).
Thanks for your comments, F.E. Always informative.
Best reply of the year goes to ….Mr. Anthony Watts…
Priceless and well deserved
+1!
+ a shed load!
Lovely!
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+1 x 2016 Watts Per Meter Squared!
And a Happy New Year back atcha, Anthony…and to all the bloggers here.
Anthony,
No matter how well WUWT does, the fight is far from over. But the continued success of WUWT is a source of great joy.
The recent and continuing COPs tell us our collective work of educating others is far from over. WUWT is my first stop on the web every day due to the information, the variety and the humor. I learn something every time I visit.
I must add that the comments from the commenters (who else?) are outstanding. How did you get such an learned and good-looking following?
Please carry on this beautiful work of art and science called WUWT.
My best to you, Anthony, and all who participate in the free exchange of ideas here.
Happy New Year everyone!
Keep doing what you do Anthony. It was appreciated 42 million times last year.
May 2016 be the best year ever for everyone!
Regards Ed
Thanks for all you do Anthony!
Happy New Year to all!