Back on March 15th, 2009, I was amazed to find that WUWT hit 10 million on the internal WordPress hit counter.
I started the WUWT blog in late November of 2006, and it took me over two years to get there
Now just six months later, I’m amazed again:
Despite the many people of the alarmism bent who dislike what we do here, WUWT continues to be popular. As always thanks to the many many readers, the guest contributors, and especially to our moderators dbs, Charles, and Evan who keep the flow of conversation going smoothly.
I’m grateful to all of you for the continued success and support. I’m especially grateful to those who spread WUWT links on other websites, helping to drive traffic here.
Now my most important question: what could WUWT do different or better?
– Anthony
By the way, another interesting question is “How has WUWT changed over the last 10 megahits?
The increased readership (and postership) makes it a lot harder to keep up with all the replies to a topic, I’ve given up trying to follow all of them. It’s clear that other people don’t keep up with all of them either, witness the fairly frequent posts that echo something said the day before.
One benefit of having so many active members is that the first I hear about many events, research, and other happenings is here. Several posts in the last few months have appeared before other media get wind of it or have time to get it into print. This makes WUWT one of the better sites for breaking scientific news.
WUWT also seems to be recognized as a medium that is an attractive place for such announcements.
In my mind, this is one of the biggest improvements in WUWT this year. I predict that more ad more sites will turn to WUWT as a source of breaking news on the climate front.
Here’s to another 20 megahits!
Awesome figures there, Anthony! Telling and showing the Populace whats true and real is what’s it’s all about. Sharing stories and giving support to those who deserve’s it says it best, I think! Can we have an encore??? Time will tell!
Fantastic, Anthony. Keep up the great work. BTW, do you and you readers know about the poll on the Economist website? It’s at: http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/383 .They also have a debate going on.
Whoops, the link address disappeared. It’s http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/154?source=most_commented
@ROM (20:32:53) Thanks for taking the time to fully elucidate AW’s merits. I’m old and verbally parsimonious these days, but wish I’d said the same.
I’ll raise a glass to 20 M.
Anthony wrote: “Now my most important question: what could WUWT do different or better? ”
Not much, just keep it up! Do what suits you.
Some things asked for in these comments can be handled by regular readers answering the questions of those new readers who do ask questions – and they should. I try to respond by suggesting links to articles that I have found clearly written. To do this I have been saving many things and trying, not as successfully as I’d like, to keep track of them. Often, questions can be answered by searching on key terms that a new viewer might not have thought of. I’ve also found that regular internet searches often link to previous WUWT posts and I can quickly point someone to that post and all the comments.
So, I think regular readers can do more to help. And anyone with a question should ask it.
I also click on the ads that I see that are new. Some are oddly out of place but I check them out anyhow. Some are actually interesting. If just a few percent of the regular readers follow this plan WUWT may actually earn a few dollars.
This is a great learning environment.
Thanks Anthony and moderators and all contributors.
Congratualtions on being the Next Big Thing.
What should you do differently?
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Unprecedented, robust, settled. The largest figure since record keeping began. Higher than 1998.
Now, webmaster, can you make it easier to post images if people do not have their own web sites? Please, pretty please?
Congratulations.
You ask “what could WUWT do different or better? ” and apologies to anyone who has already said this (I haven’t read all posts on this page) but I do have a suggestion :
It would be nice to maintain a potted summary, with links, of all the important things we have learned about climate and the conduct of climate science and the climate debate, so that newcomers can get up to speed, and everyone has a document that they can send on to others etc. It would take time, so maybe you could recruit volunteers from the readership here. A structure like the IPCC’s would be appropriate …..
When the AGW scare is over and you have some spare time (!!), you could turn it into a book.
This site has become the ‘VOR'(voice of reason), many come here for real information that simply doesnt exist anywhere else.
The MSM(main stream media)is blind and deaf for the most part to the actual truth only listening and reporting the ‘consensus’ as dictated by the AGW/MMCC/AAM narrative.
More and more people are seeking the truth, the lies and media manipulation, the polititians lies and deceit has become so obvious that ordinary people have found they have a genuine hunger for the truth and its not being satisfied by the traditional media sources.
Is it any wonder that the political consensus dislikes blogs like these? The cosy consensus is being ruined, the constructed reality being built is being pulled apart under their very noses, each fake report, each fake story, each fake study pulled to bits using the actual truth, can you imagine the frustration and anger of the political classes? All the time, money and effort used to build this solid looking consensus and its falling apart before their eyes, worse still from their point of view the sceptics are winning simply by revealing the truth.
The truth shall set you free!
What he said:
ROM (20:32:53) :
If you build it, they will come.
Thank you, Anthony.
Thanks Anthony et al. I wish I could offer you the original work as a gift, but at least I can offer the link to you and anyone else who would like to take a fabulous 2 minute 36 second break from the nincompoops:
REPLY: Nicely done. Our timescape is but a fleeting moment. – Anthony
My congratulations as well.
(Told ya’ the count would metastasize.)
From time to time posters on your blog are at a loss on how to use html tags.
My suggestion: on your RESOURCES page include a couple of links for primers on html tags. Then all you have to do is refer the poster to your resource page when the question comes up.
If you think this idea has merit here are a couple of satisfactory links on the subject
basic html tags or here another basic html tags site
Congratulations Anthony on an excellent site. I’m amazed that you’re amazed, because this is the only site that scientists of an independent mind can find, and discuss in a civilised manner, all the true information about the weather and climate. We are all grateful for the effort you, your moderators and your contributers, put in.
All the best for the future, keep up the good work, and I look forward to the 30 million mark.
Huh….what?
With this number of commenters, some threads become hard to navigate, and some squabbles leap to new threads like a wildfire leaping a fire-break.
The sheer quality of the posts and comments can get drowned (like the ceremonies of innocence).
I’d love to be involved in helping either with moving up to a forum or trying to catalogue/TikiWiki the volume of superb work here.
Congratulations Anthony. WUWT is first on my bookmark list and I placed it first on my “Favorite Sites” link on my personal web site. I truly appreciate the intellectual honesty, candor, and broad spectrum of knowledge found here.
I’ll also mention that after 30 years in technology and science I always wondered about those strange coincidences that defy statistics and explanation. Now I know It’s the WATTS effect!
Keep up the good work. It is much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Hank Hancock – Las Vegas, NV
Awesome!
“J.Hansford (16:12:03) :
20 million hits….. all those enquiring minds. The science is far from settled.”
It’s no where near enough hits to settle the facts. Although, WUWT was mentioned on ABC here in Australia, so, maybe, just maybe, the word is spreading (Lets hope more so before Copenhagen).
F. Ross (21:58:22) :
How about http://wattsupwiththat.com/resources/#comment-65319 ? 🙂
Make the Arctic cool down faster. Oops, too late.
The immediate compelling improvement is — increase width to 1024 pixels. Unforgiveable to keep it at 800 pixels, much as you are loved.
Anthony, hearty congratulations to you , your site’s success is both a credit to you and the team. The extent to which you are being vilified by the pro AGW sites confirms the degree to which your incisive reportage bothers them. WUWT has become my ‘daily read’ and I enjoy swapping ideas and banter here.
A suggestion would be a more readily searchable index to posts. Clicking back through the months and hovering the mouse to try to find articles is ok, if you remember the name of the article, but still a bit time consuming. A site specific google search works quite well, but many people don’t know how to do this.
How about a search page which uses the google site specific search with some tips on how to track down that post you are after?
Keep up the great work.
Well done Anthony. Real,observational,un”adjusted” information is the hallmark of your site.A question-why is it that deltoid and other alarmist sites prefer to ban people than to debate this issue?
Re: L. Gardy LaRoche (20:26:06)
Just use “Edit” “Find” (or shortcut: Ctrl-F) – (you’ll find as fast as you can click).