Love it or hate it, WUWT gets traffic.
This month was 1,478,801 page views. This is up significantly from both January (1,324,097) and February (1,168,852).
As always, my sincere thanks to the many readers, commenters (even the angry ones, you know who you are 😉 ), moderators, and guest contributors that keep WUWT fresh and interesting.
– Anthony
UPDATE: Since I had a question about it, the numbers and graph above are from my internal WordPress.com traffic counter and stat system. They are actual counted pages views, not estimates like some external web traffic analysers.
Congratulations on the UNPRECEDENTED viewership.
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Watts up with that is the place to be.
Thanks Anthony.
ROM (03:25:27) : …it seems that … there is a quiet but steady increase in the number of easily read and easily understood articles / papers by more and more quite prominent and highly respected climate researchers, appearing on WUWT. Am I the only one detecting this trend or am I imagining things?
I think you are right on Rom. I think many of us sense a huge sea-change, that the AGW blight has also been a driver to produce new growth that is commensurate with the Internet and people’s need for truth, courtesy, and other human values. WWII was a driver for Science as it was then.
As a former active warmist, I decided the issue was so important that I needed to teach myself the science… and then I wrote it down, both to consolidate my own understanding and to help others. I came to feel passionately that Climate Science needs a “citizens science” approach to clean it out, rehabilitate it, with the transparency that can make obfuscation and disinformation a lot harder in future. Without shame, I think my “Primer” is now at a pretty good standard and is unique of its kind.
As more and more folk come to WUWT, I wonder how “organic growth” can happen so as to maintain quality here. Many have learned a heck of a lot and want to pass on the best of what we’ve learned, and find ways to communicate to intractable warmists. For this, I personally hold up a light for a skeptics’ wiki. I believe that such a project is capable of working and of being fun. I’ve written a page on this and have a sticky thread on our Forum, so that, whatever happens, ideas are still accumulating and distilling. I still do not have enough clout to do much more than accumulate ideas steadily – but our collective clout is growing.
Anthony, anyone, any other thoughts on keeping WUWT growth sweet?
A nice amount of increment last month. According to the overwhelming scientific consensus, it is “very likely” to have been human-induced. The science is in, the time for denialism is over… 🙂
Great site. Congratulations!
That’s great. I really appreciate the information and work done here.
I found the donate button, so I hope it continues!
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It sure is hard to imagine where all of this will be in 5 years.
Congrats, Anthony. I love reading your articles and the informed debate and commentary by your other readers. You have consolidated my skepticism. Three years ago I was in the AGW crowd. No more.
PS, I just hit the donate button. This is the first time I’ve ever donated to an internet News Organization. Keep up the great work.
Congratulations.
Love this site.
As others have already observed, much of the material presented here is by professional scientists written for the lay audience. Very appreciated.
Well done Anthony.
AGW = Anthony’s Great Weblog
I was just reading WUWT on Google Reader. Only going to the site to read the comments. Now I always go to the site to make sure that Anthony gets the credit due. I pay my dues, too.
— John Andrews in Knoxville, Tennessee
Our models reveal that the readership of WUWT will continue to decline as CO2 levels increase. The data that is represented by the graphs at the top of this page must therefore be incorrect and there just happens to be a peer-reviewed paper coming out later this month that will explain precisely how and why these spurious data came to be. The correct data have been recorded by satellite and have been massaged and homogenized for your protection.
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Really and Truly REAL Climate
The internet gives the world access to jewels and trash. WUWT is the Hope diamond of jewels. Keep up the good work, and thank you.
Reed Coray
Anthony, I am taking your innovative site for granted. I am two days late in saying thank you. I hope others subscribe, as I have done, not just contribute occasionally. Your efforts are raising awareness on a global scale; you are warming the neurons of our thinking brains.
Sorry, about that dip in February. My reader had a glitch and I missed a bunch of posts. 😉
Keep up the good work.