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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It’s not only the stories that make this such a ‘go-to’ site, it’s the intelligent comments and discussion. Well done all!
Anthony and Moderators,
Great work! Keep the interesting, informative articles coming!
I only wish more actively publishing climate scientists would visit using real names and comment on the articles. How can we organize/ advocate/ encourage them to do this? They might come to understand the power of this approach to “doing science,” or at least to informing the broad public in a sensible, scientific way about their science.
Finally, while the “live/ real time” element here is awesome, I wish I had some better way of accessing/ organizing previous articles/ threads so as to quickly locate information to share with others. Hope you can do something along these lines in 2010.
Keep up the great work; maybe, just maybe you can play an important role in putting the “science” back into “climate science” (and getting the politics out by informing people so they realize they ought to vote out of office any politicians using the AGW hypothesis as an easy target for tax revenue.
Hmmm it must be about time for Google to remove Wattsupwiththat from auto-suggest… must… stop… skeptics…
Grats Anthony on an amazing year.
For what its worth RC just passed 10 million hits after five years online.
Congratulations Anthony et al.
Yet 30 million is a small number considering the importance of the subject. It’s less than one visit per adult Dutchman since the inception of the blog.
Any person with access to internet and an inquisitive mind should visit WUWT at least once a week. Hence there is a potential for billions of hits per year.
We have to encourage family, friends and colleagues to get acquainted with WUWT. That’s really the only way to educate the masses and for politicians to take notice of dissenting opinions.
DirkH (19:23:46) :
Yahoo has ~181 million visits a day by ~71 million people in the U.S. Yahoo is ranked 3rd over all of most visited sites after Google and Facebook.
click ‘day’ here to see:
http://www.quantcast.com/yahoo.com
Even Yahoo mail is ranked very high. A banner ad in Yahoo mail would reach a lot of people.
The real Hockey Stick!!
http://www.quantcast.com/profile/trafficGraph?wunit=wd%3Acom.wattsupwiththat&drg=&dty=pp&dtr=dm&gl=6mo&ggt=large&showDeleteButtons=true&width=520
click ‘month’ here:
http://www.quantcast.com/wattsupwiththat.com
I should have said “one visit a year” per adult Dutchman.
Hi Anthony,
I believe the key to your success is:
a) Allowing dessenting / AGWers comments without filtering unlike RC.
b) Great, regularly updated content.
c) Lack of MSM objectivity
TerryS (08:54:23) :
I think that anyone with a Facebook account should log-in and get stuck in there. WUWT and CA have two supporters there (Willis and Hilary), they need more now!
Willis made an excellent comment trying to explain the scientific method to these ignorant people but they’re just not having it and are unable to point to any example of non-science on WWUT or CA.
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=185779101778&topic=11095
Well done Anthony & team! Since directed here by Chris Booker, its become a daily read – really informative. Whenever climate change comes up in conversation with friends, I tell people visit this site read the posts and make up your own mind. Is the science really settled? Is the debate really over? And is the “science” of AGW compelling?
I think you have made a major contribution by facilitating the distribution of information to a global audience. I have certainly learnt a lot, and I just love Leif’s posts when he is on a roll!
Happy New Year from a very cold England – keep up the good work!
Don’t want to be the techo-geek in the room, but the accepted term is ‘pageviews’ now. ‘Hit’ is very 1997. Still, 30 million of them, that’s a lot of pages served.
Happy New Year from Aus!
congratulations, and well done to all, refreshing to find truth debate and sanity, I have become a daily visitor and I know some friends have too:-)
Looking forward to the continuation
Thank you Anthony. I’ve learned much here.
Congrats!
The increase is all me-I go in and out a lot
This would seem to support starting a new “Tips & Notes” page more frequently. Suggest every week. Again, congratulations.
Congratulations Anthony and WUWT for such a well deserved increase in your blog traffic. Your blog is certainly one of the best resources out there and it continually gets under the skin of the warmists and alarmists, which can only be a good thing.
Your increase in terms of tens of millions in such a short time certainly puts my little blog into perspective as I was excited getting about 1000 hits a month which suddenly increased to 1000 hits in about two and a half weeks.
So once again, Anthony… very well done and keep up the excellent work!
It’s been a helluva wild ride the past two months since Climategate broke. I used to come here maybe once every two weeks, but since mid-Nov. I’ve become accustomed to visiting daily and often spending a whole lot of time here. Thanks for staying so active over Christmas/New Year’s.
yeah, great work, keep up the amazing work u’ve got there, lol