Overnight, another milestone occurred. As of 6:20 AM PST, the WUWT hit counter shows:
Thank you readers, thank you moderators, thank you guest contributors.
Traffic has slowed from about half of what it was during the heady days of Climategate and Copenhagen in December, but I note that this is not unique to WUWT, as other climate blogs have also experienced similar drops since then. However I’m pleased to say that WUWT has kept many new readers since then.
Here’s an Alexa comparison of WUWT and four other commonly visited climate websites:
For my part, I’ve gone through a period of exhaustion and illness due to keeping up the pace a couple of weeks back, and for awhile, resorted to posting a lot of press releases rather than analysis and commentary.
This is why I value the work of our volunteer moderation team and our guest contributors so much. You have my heartfelt thanks for your continued efforts.
At the moment, I’m facing survival issues with my own business due to the downturn the economy has suffered, and I’ll be unable to put as much time into WUWT as I have in the past. Even the Google Ad words hits have dropped off as the economy cools. The economy has finally caught up to my little niche.
Given the situation, I hope readers will forgive me if I showcase a weather station product or two in the future as a way to gain revenue. WUWT gets more hits than my business does, so I’d be a fool not to take advantage of this traffic. I figure many WUWT readers might be interested in some of the weather products I’ve invented and offer. Most recently I’ve been working on a personal weather radar channel, a small box that you can add to the back of any flat screen LCD TV/monitor, that gives you 24/7 automated radar display for your location, and without any data fees. Look for that in a week or two.
Again, thank you all for making WUWT the most visited climate science blog in the world. – Anthony
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Congratulations Anthony et al, this is an amazing performance.
Well I have to say that I was NOT expecting that. All those fireworks, and the confetti, for being the fourty-millionth hit! (How did you rig all that stuff up in my cottage?)
Anyway, I’d just like to thank everyone who’s made this possible.
Also, I’d like to point out that the value added stats for this site prove that it is the most visited climate site since records began. And if we don’t act soon it will destroy the internet.
Antony,
Thank you for injecting humour back into my life. OK the AGW crew deserve much credit too but this site illuminates their antics superbly!
Thanks for the laugh!
John
Well done, Anthony. I joined your blog just before last Xmas, at the 37M+ point. I’m pleased to say that I was on your site yesterday (Thursday, late a.m. your time), so contributed to your latest milestone. Keep it up; nobody does it better!
I have a friend who runs a small sports blog. [I post occasionally.] When I told him how many hits WUWT gets he nearly fell over. As a regular visitor and frequent commenter, I would not object to more advertising which might be more lucrative then you can possibly imagine. Advertising does not necessarily mean offensive. I will bet that WUWT has more unique hits a week then Time magazine.
We could hardly expect to get the information on this site from a source funded by taxpayers so if most of us could donate a small amount it would add up since there are so many people who see this site. Lurkers don’t need to be freeloaders.
I want a 2011 WUWT Calendar with a crappy weather station pic and outrageous warmist quote for each month.
Why not do a surveymonkey on your readership; see what you can sell us?
REPLY: I’ll consider it, but don’t want to get too commercial here – A
I have been a visitor and occasional commenter here almost since the beginning.
In my job I come into contact with a lot of members of the public, and have perfected a casual way of mentioning AGW. (Usually along the lines of ‘Where’s all this global warming they’ve been promising us…?’)
I have given this site’s details to dozens of people over the last few years and hope to have done my small part in the campaign to educate people who may not be that interested in the subject.
I know that chatting to people and giving them some food for thought has resulted in them reconsidering their position, and your site gives much more detailed scientific information. And not a few giggles here and there!
Thank you so much Anthony for your dedication to the cause. Please don’t wind down too much, I am a bit of an addict of this site and I will still need my fix!
Congrats to you and your mods and a big Thank you!
I just made a donation and I’ll be checking out the new weather gadgets too.
Keep up the good work.
REPLY: Thanks so very much, Anthony
So, 40 MILLION hits and Anthony, who made this wonderful site possible, is facing financial problems (aren’t we all?) but I’ve hit the tip jar with my ‘Widow’s mite’ and if only a quarter of the visitors to WUWT did the same, Anthony’s problems would be over.
Let me repeat what Leif Svalgaard (11:01:21) said: DONATE NOW. $10 is NOT going to break your bank, but if enough of us donated that amount then WUWT’s continued existence would be assured.
Let’s give recognition to ctm and the rest of the Moderators for ensuring that this site remains the most open-minded, interesting and informative site about climate/weather/what’s happening outside!
Anthony, please can we have an anniversary date of WUWT’s very first web appearance? Then we could have an international Birthday Party! Imagine … WUWTers around the world raising a glass in appreciation of what this site has achieved!
REPLY: Thanks for the kind words. My very first post and the date is visible in the archives on the right sidebar – Anthony
I compared WUWT to Tamino. Had a -very- good laugh!
PS – Anthony and/or mods, check out this page at Alexa……and the line that includes “From the site…..”
http://www.alexa.com/search?q=wattsupwiththat.com&r=site_site&p=bigtop
Just turn that graph upside down – then your stats will look much better.
Realclimate seems to be coming in for a landing on the abcissa and this is as it should be. Anthony, I want to thank you so much for bringing a remarkable, diverse, knowledgeable, international universe of talent into one spot. It is easy to see that this has required a near superhuman effort and sacrifice of life’s other demands and pleasures, plus help from dedicated supporters.
I rank the education I continue to get from this site over the past 3 years or so at the top and I am a geologist, engineer and economist with a lot of book learnin’ and professional experience. Even meeting on line such bristling intellect, and I include the argumentative foes on the other side who passionately and respectfully sharpened everyone’s wits. I believe your creation has had a giant affect in a world that was seemingly bent on surrender to hateful ideologue Liliputians whose desire was not to save the planet but to control it by tying free-thinking spirits down to a grim and dark economic and political surreality and to subjicate noble science itself to this end. Even the Liliputians themselves are being saved but, like ungrateful Nile crocodiles, may not know this.
Your blog’s enormous popularity is in no small way because it was open to all sides of every question with the simple rule of respect of others as the guiding principle. Bravo and congratulations!
Tell me how I can donate some cash. I’ve selfishly enjoyed the site and I’ve just noticed mention of donations. How can I do this. I did buy a surfacestations report with a little extra but I would like to give again.
[Reply: Click on the “Donate” button on the right side of the home page. ~dbs, mod.]
A million thanks (if not forty) to Anthony and his excellent mods for keeping us all sane during some dark days, and for keeping us civil now we can see a little light at the end of the tunnel. From several visits a day in the heady weeks after climategate I’ve had to cut it to several a week as work was getting neglected! – but long may the site flourish, continue its good work, and further the cause of truth
Anthony,
I don’t actually recall when I first linked to your site (a couple of years ago now) but it has been a saviour of my sanity working in a government office with its attendent AGW parnoias and economically destructive policy responses.
I am selfishly sorry for the fact that you will be posting less but fully understand it. I am very appreciative for what you have given and just hit the tip jar for the first time myself.
Thank you sir and best of luck with your business.
Anthony, moderators, posters, and commenters:
Thanks all for the help in keeping true science alive and well and congrats to all visitors for making this site shine!
Sorry to hear that the volume has slowed a bit on your site. I guess we’ll have to dig up a fresh CRU/IPCC scandal for you (there’s so much to choose from that I don’t know where to start).
Steven Kopits (12:37:47) :
Why not do a surveymonkey on your readership; see what you can sell us?
I’d buy Al Gore’s brain. It shouldn’t cost much, perhaps a dollar per pound, which should cost me about a buck and a half, assuming of course he actually has one and it doesn’t squeak when it’s squeezed.
First thing on a morning – coffee and WUWT.
A big thanks to everyone involved in making it all work.
Hey the $10 idea is great. I just did it and was reminded that A takes PayPal. How sweet is that? I should pay more since I must have put up about 10% of those hits myself, but things are tight all over. The power of many is needed here.
Just dropped a donation in the tip jar. Just out of curiosity, have you ever looked into becoming a 501 (c) 3 edicatopnal organization??? Then the government would be helping to subsidize both sides of the argument.
Regards,
Steamboat Jack
I have never in my life donated to a political party and only rarely to small local charities.Words of thanks are easy, but, as I always tell my kids, it isn’t what you say that counts but what you do. Donation of £20 on its way.
C’mon you Brits, support WUWT.
Thanks guys.
Anthony – I add my congratulations and also proffer some unasked for advice.
When the climategate first hit, I naively thought that the end of the scam was soon to come.
However, the forces of darkness are well organised and are intent on riding this out and will soon act as if it had never happened.
After all, “there are many *proofs* that AGW is real” and no matter how many are shot down, more will rise up to take their place.
This is going to be a very long, exhausting war.
You must organise your work accordingly.
I strongly urge you to re-organise and to step up a level, rather than reduce your output.
You already have an excellent team – Charles the moderator and all.
What you now need is an unpaid, retired general manager, to run your site for you, under your sharp oversight as managing director / CEO or chairman.
Post yourself, as often as your time, energy and interest dictates.
But keep the site hummimg full speed ahead.
As I said, there is a long war ahead.
Organise, organise, but do not whip yourself into exhaustion, either physical or financial.
From an old hand in other battles.
good luck,
AusieDan
Anthony – I just made a longish post but somehow it got swallowed up, so here’s the shorter version.
first – congratulations.
Second – some advice.
This is a long war to defeat those trying to hide the truth.
You must reorganise your own work habbits and move up a level to avoid burnout, either physical or financial.
I suggest yo appoint an unpaid and hence retired, general manager to run your site for you under your watchful eye as MD/ CEO/ chairman.
Keep posting on important matters as your time and interest dictates.
But leave the daily grind to others.
They that preservere will win.
Truth will also win out, but it does need both help and organisation.
Best wishes,
AusieDan.