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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Gratuliere Dich aus Deutschland!
Now you’ve got it from Switzerland and Germany.
Let’s see how many countries you can get a congratulations.
C’mon you Europeans, it’s not too late yet!
woot!!!
Now, just three months later, I’m gobsmacked at hitting 30 million.
Is that the value added data? ;-}
Anthony, I don’t think you can overstate just how much of an effect you and Steve are making. You are changing history. Thanks!
Congratulations from Brazil!
“Steve in SC (09:18:21) :
Most highly excellent work. You had to know this was coming.
I predict you will break records in the coming year as well.
I look forward to reading this site with its excellent articles and
largely inciteful commentary by an informed and intelligent readership.”
The inciteful is casual, the insightful is causal here.
Congatulationisms.
I too suggested, when you passed 20M, it would be 30M by christmas (still within the 12 days of -).
This makes me a better prophet than Al Gore.
Why aren’t I as rich as him?
Happy New Year. (100,000,000 by Dec?)
wakeupmaggy (09:31:58) :
If you click on the sitemeter icon above and to the right, it will take you to http://s36.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s36wattsup which has maps and other data.
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P Gosselin (08:45:40) :
Actually I’d like to see the raw data behind this hockey stick claim.
The only, err, excuse me, hockey stick claim I see is was toungue-in-cheek. The 10/20/30 Mhit data is more like an exponential curve, but the Sitemeter folks can give you the graph of the last 12 months of hits, and that doesn’t look like any hockey stick I want to play with. Flat from March to September, then September – Decemeber each have more hits than the preceeding month.
I don’t know about WUWT, but the raw data for my web site is surprsingly dirty, the main artefact is to see multiple hits for the same page within a few seconds. It may be to network delays, internal delays at my ISP, I’m not sure. I also see hits to several pages in a few seconds, that may be due to browsers prefetching several pages.
Then again, the web page visit thermometers were not designed to look for tiny variances within a noisy environment.
Each hit record is typically 100 characters of ASCII data, so you’re looking for 3 GB of uncompressed data.
You deserve it, Anthony and moderators.
I came across this blog as a geologist about a year ago, out of curiosity really. Now I’m almost a (skeptical) climatologist – some of the physics is still quite tough though!
Congratulations.
Oh – and a Happy New Year to all at WUWT and all of the very significant contributors (including dear Peter Hearnden on the moor) – could be a Very Interesting Year.
Anthony
Congratulations from Dunedin New Zealand.
Your site is an oasis of sanity in the present version of ‘tulipmamia’ that is sweeping the world.
Keep it up – the real and immediate danger is to the economic threat this mania is bringing to us all.
Don’t look now, but based on these data, the rate of change of your hits is increasing! Unlike, say, circulation of the WaPo and NYT, the percentage of Americans who “believe” in the AGW thesis, or average global temperature.
Quick, Anthony! Hide the incline!
As we used to say in the dairy business, Cream Rises.
Congratulations, where do I vote?
BTW, my guess is that you’re catching-up quick with some of the mainstream media. Anybody have numbers for NYT, WaPo, ABC and their ilk?
Ric Werme
“and that doesn’t look like any hockey stick I want to play with.”
Well, then try using “Mike’s Nature trick” and you’ll get one you can play with!
🙂
Unprecedented. You clearly have reached a tipping point.
Congrats, and let’s hope that 2009 will be remembered as the year the AGW-hype fell to pieces thanks to WUWT and others. I’ll bet 2010 will bring great changes and that the warmists will be the new deniers!!
Much of the fine recent surge is due to climate gate.
On Nov 20 or 21 I said the first thing they would claim is the e-mails were taken out of context.
Well back at the warmistas.
Putting these numbers “IN context”
I doubt there would have been much upward action this fall and a spike in Nov if the Cartelhad released FOIA data and info on request years ago. We know 2 motives they had to hide data. One is adjustment and the other is the boosting from the models. The carbo climate crisis cartel was the trigger for this board.
JOnes and Mann, thanks for all the help.
Anthony
Many Congratulations on a magnificent achievement.
You, with Steve at Climate Audit (Oh sorry, I forgot that you virtually run that blog too!) are almost dounle-handed repelling the AGW wave.
Here’s to you for 2010 and many more hits.
Beware…your carbon footprint it’s increasing too.☺
P Gosselin (08:45:40) : Anthony won’t tell HIS “TRICK”
Congratulations, Anthony and your team!
Way before ClimateGate I came here just to learn – didn’t post as I’m not a climate scientist.
Coming here was also a respite: an island of sanity, where truly fascinating things were debated, from sun spots to ice sheets.
Long may it continue – this site is one of the best, if not the best, place for learned debate.
I love it!
Congratulations Anthony.
I’m a retired science teacher and I’m very concerned about the continued dumbing down of science in schools, including here in Canada. Your blog is one that I access every day to see what some of the more knowledgeable people are discussing. Suggested links are appreciated.
I hope more people will go to Doug L. Hoffman’s fine “theresilientearth.com” for some excellent articles on geological and climate history. I purchased the book co-authored by Doug and Allen Simmons and I plan to draw it to the attention of the local school authorities as a source for senior high students. I’ll also give them a list of blogs such as yours to allow teachers to have some balance in any climate related discussions.
I realize I could be wating my time but it’s worth a try.
Continued success Anthony.
Dave
WUWT is beginning to mean We Understand Weather Too (much to the chagrin of those that would baffle the masses with their fudge factors and other nefarious actions).
BTW, if China has lifted it’s ban on WUWT, your hit count will skyrocket.
Congratulations, Mr. Watts!
Grattis fra Norge!
It is evident that people are starved for unbiased, non-dumbed down, non-doctrinal information and discussion on this subject. Humans are by nature curious and inquisitive. People are sick of getting “scientists agree that…”, “the science says…” rammed down their throats, and belief in the doctrinal truths being treated as a moral question.
The tide is most assuredly turning (as is the climate).
Well, WUWT has certainly become an indispensible blog for me. But what I’d like to know is who was the 30 millionth visitor and what does he/she get?