September 25th, 2009 WUWT hit the 20 million mark. I was shocked then, because we’d gone from 10 million just six months prior. I wrote then in Another small milestone for WUWT:
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.
Now, just three months later, I’m gobsmacked at hitting 30 million.
Longtime reader and surfacestations volunteer Gary Boden sent me an interesting email a few days ago.
To: Anthony Watts
Anthony,
First of all, here’s wishing you and your family a peaceful and blessed Christmas.
Second, as I predicted on September 25th:
Gary (19:24:11) :
Thirty million hits by 1 Jan 2010?
REPLY: Doubtful, but reader can always help by placing links on other blogs. – A
WUWT is just about to pass 29 million on the Blog Stats hit counter with eleven days to go. You just may do it.
-Gary
WUWT will end up December 2009 with a new record in monthly traffic. Though it has dipped during the holidays. I’ll have more at years end.
On behalf of myself, the moderation team, and contributors, readers, it has been our honor. – Anthony
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Great job, Anthony, and congratulations. You have earned it, and this site is always interesting and informative.
Congratulations Anthony. I’ve been viewing here for several years now and rarely spend a day without looking. We’re still trying to get a UK Surface Stations off the ground but it appears our network is even more unfathomable than elsewhere, despite our history.
Actually I’d like to see the raw data behind this hockey stick claim.
– Surely it is not protected by intellectual property rights,
– or subjected to confidentiality agreements,
– or only available to acedemics,
– or is not subject to the FOIA (don’t tell anyone that it is!),
– or is already available at other websites, or is lost
– or is deleted,
– or you don’t have the time for the “endless time-consuming demands for information”.
The truth shall set you free. Keep on trucking Anthony, I’ll try and do my part by hitting your tip jar as money allows. I know it is not cheap to run a site like this.
Dear Anthony and Your Team,
Congratulations on the milestone. You all deserve it.
Logging on to your wedsite is the highly anticipated pleasure of my day.
The energy flowing around your site is . . . energizing.
BUT: don’t dwell on looking back, keep looking ahead
John
Congrats & Thank You!
~Joe Sixpack
The WUWT rising levels, not of the seas of course, drowned all climate lies and… last but not least,”El Gordo” (the fat one) won’t ever forget WUWT. That’s a great feat too. ☺
Sorry – I only wanted to make the first line bold.
Ainst yet mastered the text formatting.
I also award you the anti-Barrie-Harrop (as in anti-particle) award for this year.
Congrats, but y’all needed that holiday respite to catch your breaths and recharge your souls. 200,000+ hits/day is quite a number. We’ll soon see how the new year looks; will it remain settled down or will the wild ride resume? And then there is that small matter of the weblog awards voting that is supposed to kick in next week.
Has been a pleasure to have helped in my own small way and im learning such a lot at the same time.
Cheers. CF.
Congratulations to Anthony and Team.
Life lessons learned at this site are more important than the light you throw on the global urban legend of catastrophic warming.
Thank you, thank you, thank YOU!!!
Mike Bryant
Brilliant site, I would expect nothing less! You deserve it…
I forgot to add the slash. Let’s see if this works.
I considered the BBC one of the better news outlets with the exception of their reporting on all things climate so i ignored that. (and some other things were i consider them biased but don’t want to elaborate here)
Only after ClimateGate did i look around for a more reliable source of information about AGW and all. It practically drew me to WUWT. There’s no other place like this to find information and really debate it without ending up in shouting matches.
Befitting and gratifying just now. Thanks AW and friends for building this ark. The flood of deception is far more destructive than water!
As a general rule, visitors should always feel free to explore advertisers of interest.
I personally find the pro-AGW ads of particular interest.
Does this mean a hockey stick graph for you? I’ll believe it when I see it! Or maybe not!
Congratulations, happy and healthy new year to you and the team. Your audience awaits the new year with great expectations.
In case people are not aware, Harropium is a name dropping, cut and paste particle from Australia, who couldn’t make a photo kiosk chain work.
Meanwhile, attempts are being made to prevent WUWT appearing in the science blog category of the 2009 weblog awards.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=185779101778&topic=11095
Yes, thanks for the truth Anthony. The free market of ideas and true scientific curiosity win again!
Happy new year.
Congratulations on a thought-provoking and valuable web site.
For comparison, I asked the CRU how many hits their site had received over the last three months but they said that they didn’t keep the raw data although the adjusted data could be made available.
A truly “rare and exciting event” that CRU would have never predicted!
Congrats!!
And it’s all due to one simple premise….honesty. This is where you can come and find the truth, whether it’s good news or bad.
Oh sure, now I’ve got Hit Envy.
Congrats, Anthony.