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
I appreciate your and your fellows work so much. Carry on!
Congratulations!! Going to your site is part of my morning ritual. Have to read the truth before I open my daily newspaper.
Dear Anthony,
Thank you for this wonderful resource and vibrant online community!
May it continue to achieve greater success and recognition!
A very big thank you to all the moderators for facilitating good standards and maintaining openness.
Congrats from England! But just remember you have the CRU to thank for you rapid rise!
Picks up coat, and heads for the door…….
Speaks loudly to the hunger of the human mind.
congratulations, well earned and deeply appreciated.
Congratulations! Anthony, you deserve it!
Ecotretas
How good is that!
Keep up the good work Anthony, and many thanks to you and the team for the enjoyment WUWT gives me.
The climate debate is far from over.
Wow. Just wow. Congrats Anthony and mods and readers and posters too.
And even you few dedicated conspiracy theorists as well. Happy New Year while I’m at it!
_Jim
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And whatever the topic is, the comments also make WUWT worth visiting!
Keep up the excellent work and – let me soothsay a little – 100 Million will be just around the corner! Ok, that might be a ways away but within sight.
Congrats!
pwl
http://PathsToKnowledge.Net?s=soothsaying
Tripod (08:29:17) :
This is one site that I can visit morning, noon, and night and always find something new to read and more to learn. Thanks Anthony for a great site.
Yes, it’s treatening to ruin my sleep.
Among many other things, it dispells the vacuous elitist notion that only MSM “Journalists” with their “layers and layers” of editorial/peer review can report and discuss News, which now even involves anything the MSM wants to say it is, but nothing else. Wrong, as proven and still counting!
“threatening” – I blame WUWT!
Congrats! It certainly demonstrates the enormous wealth of information WUWT readers have come to rely on.
Pat yourselves on the back for a job well done, and best wishes in 2010.
40 million by March 1st
This is happening much faster than my models predicted it would. Therefore, it must be wrong. I am resetting your page view count back to 20 million now.
But seriously, congrats, Anthony. You deserve it.
sHx (11:18:10) :
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?
That’s actually very hard to identify – the real winner would be just an IP address, and for my hit to read this post it’s just a corporate proxy server that has likely forgotten who made the request.
I did identify the person who entered the 250,000th comment, but I don’t know if he ever heard the news and I forget who it was anyway. BTW, yours was comment 275895.
Anthony, my sincerest congratulations to you for WUWT. Very special congratulations must go to the Moderators, those all-too-often unsung heroes whose efforts keep this site from descending into flame-wars and name calling. It is the civility which permeates this site which makes it so special: everyone is welcome, all ideas are considered and all reasonable comments are published.
The vast amount of work that it must take to keep WUWT going can only be imagined. To hit the 30 million hits mark must be some small reward for the WUWT Team. I imagine that your readership is the envy of more than a few of the MSM organisations!
Keep up the efforts Anthony and the Mods, we really do appreciate what you have achieved in producing this marvellous resource, this WUWT.
30 million hits.
You’re getting famous faster than previously expected.
Congratulations. I hope we all did our part by re-Tweeting posts, adding them to Facebook pages etc thereby inviting others to enjoy the excellent posts on WUWT.
Congrats Antony and Team.
We are behind you. Keep the pressure up.
Salutations de France Anthony.
Thank you for your incredible work.
I can hear the IPCC, Team etc. on this:
“It’s worse than we thought!!”
In Portugal or Danmark or anyplace to you:
Congratulations!
The truth has a way of seeking out and finding people.. Word of mouth is more powerful than the LMSM (Liberal Main Stream Media)
Excellent Job!!!!! Congrats on ethical treatment of skeptic and believer alike!
This is absolutely fantastic. Mainstream media? What mainstream media? WUWT is now the antidote to mainstream media. Soon, Anthony, you’re going to be right up there with Al Gore. Only this time, you will tell the world about the real inconvenient truth, not the fake inconvenient truth of yore, err… I mean Gore. And then brace yourself for your own Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar nomination.
Ok, I’m only kidding about that last part.
Keep up the good work !
Is that just “Hits” or “Unique” visitors, eh?
I think I have to insist on you publishing the raw data please…
🙂