The hits just keep on coming. 1,672,437 page views this month, up from 1,478,801 page views in March.
After posting last months stats, there was some discontent by some angry and somewhat incredulous bloggers that it might be an April Fools joke of some sorts. Sorry, no such luck.
But what was humorous, was one particular blogger (Joe Romm) who said:
It is absurd to publish one’s page views to 7 significant digits without caveats — even 2 is stretching it.
I got a huge chuckle out of that. So just to show that the stats are indeed real, and accurate down to that 7th digit (since they come from the WordPress internal traffic counter), I’m expanding this month’s report.
Joe, this report’s for you. Here is a screencap showing my WordPress internal report page, with all 7 digits, sans caveats. No caveats are needed since the WordPress numbers are actual, not estimated, and not drawn from router statistics.
Maybe Joe will reciprocate and post a screencap his own internal stats page.
The graph on this page above differs a bit from the headline graph (which is graphically edited to move the title inwards and downwards to fit nicely on the page) because it was snapped after 00GMT (5PM PST) and it shows the new month of May stats also, which are of course quite low by comparison.
So the numbers are real, from WordPress.com (where my blog is hosted) and exact to the 7th digit, despite angry accusations otherwise.
In that blog post, Joe Romm also showed an Alexa graph to prove his point, saying:
Interestingly, there is one independent source that suggests Watts’ page views and mine are in fact the same (and hence possibly around 1.4 million). If you go to the Web traffic ranking and comparison site Alexa, go to page views, and type in wattsupwiththat.com, you’ll get this graph:
So at best I am just negating the disinformation Watts is spreading. Sigh. And lest there be any doubt, WattsUpWithThat is in fact an extremist anti-scientific denialist website, as his recent posts make clear.
Gosh, all that angry prose from a traffic report? I don’t much care whether WUWT beats Climate Progress in traffic or vice versa, but I do care when the proprietor suggests that by printing my own internal stats page I’m spreading disinformation. Of course, I don’t expect an apology, but I wanted WUWT readers to know.
OK, following Joe’s lead, lets look at Alexa this month.
Pageviews: we are still about the same in April according to Alexa.
Though over the longer 6 month term, WUWT is slow and steady while Climate Progress runs hot and cold.
Joe didn’t show the other interesting comparative statistics from Alexa though, so I thought WUWT readers might enjoy seeing them.
Here is Traffic Rank over 6 months:
And here is Reach:
But having been labeled a “spreader of disinformation”, please, don’t take my word for it, visit Alexa and see for yourselves. Here is the link.
Some people might wonder why I post my web stats each month. Some might say I’m tooting my own horn, well maybe a bit, I’m admittedly proud of WUWT.
But there’s a bigger reason. WUWT has thousands of visitors, many of whom are regulars who see this blog as something they relate to and grow with. Many visit daily or even more often. There’s a sense of pride and ownership with all of you, too. Without its readers, content contributors, and those tireless volunteer moderators that keep the snark under control, WUWT would be nothing. I try not to lose sight of that. This is my monthly reminder to myself that this is a team effort.
As this blog expands its reach, it seems only fair that my readers also get to share in seeing the growth. I listen to my readers, who are often more insightful than I am, and they offer wonderful suggestions and topics.
I thank you all for making WUWT one of top science blogs on the Internet today.
And thanks to you to Joe, for bringing up this topic last month.
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Heh. I too am “Larry”, and not the one that just posted, I think.
But I wouldn’t mind a bit if people thought I wrote that.
But what I came down here to say was this:
“Some people might wonder why I post my web stats each month. Some might say I’m tooting my own horn, well maybe a bit, I’m admittedly proud of WUWT.”
I have long said (including to my attractive, talented and intelligent wife and 3 daughters): If you’ve got it, flaunt it.”
What exactly does Alexa (and WordPress) measure, how to they measure it, and why atre they different?
Hahahaha you give me such a good laugh from the belly, where it’s about truth.
Just imagine what CP will say… what new depths WUWT is plumbing in its anti-science crusade, can’t convince people by science so it’s t-shirts now
Anthony,
This is truly a wonderful scientific site – the stats are wholly reflective of your tireless efforts and especially the way you run the blog together with the outstanding support of the, also tireless, moderators.
Equally I would like to single out Dr Leif Svalgaard who shows immeasurable patience in dealing with my rather naive questions and as a result (even in my later years) has taught me more than he will ever know.
“But what was humorous, was one particular blogger (Joe Romm) who said:
It is absurd to publish one’s page views to 7 significant digits without caveats — even 2 is stretching it. ”
Anthony, I view your site regularly now and find the level of data provided (as well as the depth of analysis) to be refreshing. I also find the above referenced quote to be both sadly humorous and an excellent example of what passes for analytical review on the topic of Climate change.
It seems endemic among those who support the AGW that they disregard the actual content of the report they choose to criticize to get to the conclusion they wish to reach. Mr. Romm finds fault with your data presentation…which requires that he completely ignore both that you listed how your data was collected and that you explicitly stated the purpose for showing your data in that format. He had to ignore the caveats you posted to criticize you for not giving caveats. Truly amazing.
Keep up the good work.
I, too, am an addict. I want to thank Anthony and all who post here. The knowledge I have gleaned from this site is immeasurable. Although I do not post (lack of scientific background/training), the information from WUWT is passed along to my peers in the course of discussions/arguments. I only wish I could contribute as all of the commentators do. Your civility on all threads is a breath of fresh air in an increasingly uncivil world. Thanks to all. Keep up the good work.
I’m another addict to WUWT – no, delete that – supporter of truth and civility and debate and scientific method in a beleaguered science.
The stats count simply does not begin to account for the length of time spent on each page. I doubt Joe Romm scratches the surface there.
A recent attempt to convert me ended up saying that if they were my university supervisor they’d ask me to find another supervisor, to which I said I already had one who gets up at dawn each day.
Why not just humor Joe Romm and report your stats rounded to two significant digits? Then you’d simply be saying that 1.7 million page views in April was up from 1.5 million in March.
Or, if you really want to meet his stated requirement, publish the stats rounded to one significant digit, making Aprils 2 million pages views higher than March’s 1 million.
Congratulations, Anthony.
Congrats for your stats.
This blog is my favourite.
I don’t know wether it’s my decaying English or the high skill of your blog but I sometimes have some difficulties to understand all the comments.
Anyway, I am a speed reading trainer for young scientific people in France (Phd, 1st or 2nd year), and thanks to your blog I am managing to give them convincing informations about AGW, PDO, Sun’s activity, Icecaps situation…
I wend Joe Rommer’s blog and managed to read as long as 14 seconds of time.
I am not a scientific myself, but I need to develop a scientific attitude : I swear I will try to make an effort to probably manage to read a bit of it 14 more seconds. I swear.
Now, as a W = 2U, in order to save energy, so in order to save the world from thermagedon, every commenter and also you Anthony should write “5UT” instead of WUWT.
Steven Kopits (10:14:22) :
You’re right, IT IS THE HOCKEY STICK!! Steven Chu did use the Hockey Stick in his presentation.
Look at page 7 in this presentation :
http://www.eia.doe.gov/plenary/Chu.pdf
at this link :
http://www.eia.doe.gov/plenary/plenary_main.html#DrChu
STEVEN CHU USES THE MANN HOCKEY STICK IN HIS “Energy Problem” PRESENTATION!!
I see a parallelism in how the media drives AWG and other negative news and am truly frightened by the power that the major media outlets have to drive any particular agenda\viewpoint
In short bad news sells. Case in point:
AGW~ism
Uninformed Environmentalism (IMO most of the rational (lac) behind buying a hybrid car)
Socialist gov’t policies
Economies (greatly infuences consumer sentiment)
Swine FLU hysteria ( Nancy Grace\Geraldo reporting)
Polarization of U.S. politics (us v. them reporting as if politics were a team sport)
Recent rash of Family-cides (seriously is this NATIONAL news? Why promote it other than for shock value?)
No the “media” is not responsible for100% of the above, but IMO the influence in undeniable.
The point is so much power and influence in the hands of the few is NEVER OK, has proven to be dangerous, and will continue to be dangerous. One of the few democratizers of the mainstream media is the internet and the forum that it brings to opposing viewpoints. The problem is also the forum that the internet brings to EVERYONE and can be hard to sift through the static. SO….
Please support respectable sites that promote real actual sensible discussion.
Whatever. That is as coherent of a point as i make at this time of night;-)
Monies sent. Expect a few central IL weather station surveys in the near future.
-Troj
Excellent site you have here Anthony, I visit at least once a day and have for the last couple of months. I think sites like this are so inconvenient for Romm and the rest of the climate deniers that they just naturally lash out with immature name calling and denigrating tactics, doing more harm to their misguided cause than anything else. We know we’re right that the debate isn’t settled and have the raw facts to back that up.
Stay the course, my good man.
Hmmm, how come when you Google News the phrase: sunspots climate
you get RealClimate’s Monckton bashing article? Why don’t any of WUWT’s articals show up on Google News? We need to work on this.
Also, there should probably be a better archiving system for WUWT, so that it would be easier to find old threads and so all of the threads would be accessible by the search engines. I think transparency is important and there is some very good information captured in many of these threads, which should be made easily accessible for interested parties.
“evanmjones (02:06:54) : What did I tell you? T-shirts are a must.”
I think an ad at the top of Drudge’s and Yahoo’s front page is a must too! I’ve got some money just burning a hole in my pocket waiting to go toward that!
REPLY: What sort of an ad? What purpose do you see? – Anthony
I am not sure that a banner ad on yahoo or drudge would drive much traffic and it might make WUWT seem over commercialized.
Tee shirts have some potential, but it come down to what’s on the shirt, i.e. the logo/design and that’s really hard to do right. Also, jackets, sweatshirts, gloves, ear warmers, snow shovels, ice scrapers, etc., might be more appropriate than tee shirts…
I think getting WUWT as an approved news source on Google:
http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/request.py?extra.CustomerType=user&contact_type=recommend_user
leveraging some Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on WUPT, adding an archive tab at the top that leads to a solid indexing/archiving/search tool page and issuing a press release that includes a good quote from Anthony, along with several other respected scientists and encourages users to check out the website, might be the best use of our time and resources. I’ll take care of Goggle News by posting their link in a forthcoming thread and encouraging readers to submit WUWT. I will also put together a list SEO suggestions when I have time and will submit a draft press release when the time comes for that.
Also, Anthony, do you use Google Analytics in addition to the reporting tool from WordPress? If not, you should sign up: http://www.google.com/analytics/. Its free and offers a very powerful suite of reporting, some of which is likely not available from WordPress.