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
Real Climate could learn something from you Anthony!
How real science works…
Keep up the good work!
“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…”
Totally agree with the above statement of J. P. Once you get away from the MSM (and some fake alternative news, too) you realize just how far fetched their reporting has become. Often the MSM are weeks behind in their reporting of “breaking news” and then almost always it lacks in substance and anaylysis. The scripted bantor is annoying and often is only relaying false alternatives. The unmentioned version is often where the truth lies. This site is one of the places to visit for the other more accurate version you will not get on TV/Newspapers/Radio.
Warm congratulations (if you’ll pardon the pun!) from Fiona and her Mum, Janet in Yorkshire, England. WUWT and EU Referendum are the only 2 blogs we have to read every day. Thanks Anthony for linking to his posts from time to time.
His recent posts on Dr Paucharis financial shenanigans underpins what a major scam this really is. I liked one description of Dr P as a “Carboneer” as in privateer or pirate helping himself to other peoples money!
Long may you continue to shine a light into the darkest corners of the AGW conspiracy. Clearly more people than ever before are waking up to the COLD facts!
We wish you all the best and will support you all the way.
Congrats Andy. What I’d like to see, as one who builds Web site strategies for clients, is the number of new visitors and how they got there, their duration of stay and the number of page views—that way you can see how deep people are diving into the site for information.
The reason I come here is because I get the latest news about the world weather and then lots of news and links from the comments section. People post links to the sites they consider the best, so it is an excellent filtering system, saves me having to wade through the web doing searches.
There is excellent moderation and I do not have to put up with inane trolls here and game playing. Given that the AGW crowd have been shown by climategate whistleblowing emails to kneecap anyone who disagrees with them, I surmise that the moderators have to deal with a lot of that sort of stuff here probably on a daily basis.
In addition to Anthony’s comments, the standard of comments by the visitors shows (to me at least) that there are many intelligent and just plain “nice” people visiting here. It may be a “virtual” community, but it is uplifting.
Here’s an idea. Your popularity is such that you could start your own radio show dedicated to global warming skeptism. Advertisers would flock to it, even the carbon traders.
And the hits just keep on coming. Congratulations, Anthony, moderators, guest posters. A favorite site for me, wish I could keep up with all the posts and comments.
As an aside, it would be quite interesting to periodically compare how the economies of states with Cap and Trade laws fare against those without such laws. Assuming, of course, that no federal law is passed. California and a few others now have such laws. If reducing CO2 via green laws is so good, California should be leading the nation in economic activity and low unemployment. Quite the contrary, actually.
Bob Kutz in the previous thread stated that “your side’s credibility fades by the day” referring to the skeptical view. I guess that explains the mere 30,000,000 hits. Thank you Anthony and team for you selfless efforts in maintaining this wonderful forum.
I would like people to examine and expose exactly what is taught in the various “climate science” departments attached to the various universities around the world. If these departments are turning out people who all agree with the AGW thesis (I don’t know that they are, but they seem to), are they teaching science? How much maths, what sort of maths and physics, and so on.
I would see this as a legitimate scientific research project similar to the surface stations project.
30 MILLION HITS
AND WHAT HAPPENS ?
THEY SMACK YOU WITH GOB !!
INGRATES
To Anthony Watts, The Moderators, and omost of all the Screeching Mercury Monkeys
You all have brought education and reading pleasure to my life. Thank you all sincerely.
Honoured to have a link to WUWT on my blog!
Anthony, oh, wonders, and thank you.
These last few days I’ve been working on and around the nascent wiki Neutralpedia to enable it to become the vehicle for the climate science, data, and story that we need for the future. A competitor to Wikipedia would not only be good in its own right, it might give the incentive WP needs to reform.
I hope that NP may become a work-and-fun-place where the increasing number of readers and contributors here can really help rebuild the science – or rather, put together the work seen here into an encyclopedic, coherent form.
Congratulations Anthony, the amount of work you and the mods put into this site is amazing.
But if I could make one comment…with that many readers the influence of this site is approaching that of MSM with the added value of allowing scientific debate. It is important to keep the debate open and not restrict the scientific comment to certain areas that you think are right…..the site is bigger than the man and open science must prevail.
Hoping the blog moves on to bigger and better things in 2010.
Congratulations, Anthony and Team.
Just goes to show that people crave honest, clearly presented information and mature discussion without the nastiness that the ‘warmers’ seem to use at every opportunity, if the opinion does not match their ‘belief’.
It is cool and raining here in the middle of summer in Queensland.
Thankyou all for your hard work. If the MSM had done their work properly you would not have been so successful. But they didn’t and you did – the rest is history!
It’s all been said: awesome; no one/no blog more deserving of such an international readership; and, especially, it is our pleasure! Great, deep satisfaction.
When I make lists of sites to recommend for decent information in the climate debate, WUWT is always on these lists. The site is doing a very fine job and deserves the success!
–Ahrvid
Congrats from France!
Your blog is so clear and the forum full of many interesting informations, fun to read too!
Here it’s still an information blackout. Only some minor media mentionned man made global scam . And yes on wikipedia.fr too the warmist cult locked the entry.
Good stuff always goes well. Keep it up!!
LMSM =CMSM The head does the “news planning” while the two mouths of the monster give you the inaccurate versions to fight over. The truth lies outside the MSM – L or C. Stay out and think out of their box.
Just wanted to say, again, many thanks for all the work you and your moderators do, Anthony, in providing a constant stream of informative, eye-opening and sometimes highly entertaining posts. Thanks also to all the interesting links provided by the many wonderful commentators here. I wonder if other daily visitors’ families are as fed up with them as my family is with me? At least I have a professional excuse, and you are providing an ESSENTIAL service here. Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!
Lucy Skywalker (14:11:45) :
Wow. Excellent idea. However, eliminating bias is easier said than done. It seems to always lead to an infinite regress as in, who watches the watchers or who moderates the moderators? But I am sure you’re aware of that. Besides, it does not have to be perfect, just more neutral than that bastion of political correctness and global warming lies, Wikipedia.
Almost exactly two years since I discovered WUWT and started to see the light. Thank you.
Great work! Looking forward to more great posts and breaking info in 2010!!
Congratulations, but without wishing to rain on the parade, it is all part of the world wide, seismic shift in public opinion.
The best is yet to come!