Congratulations are in order for hitting the 60-million mark in page-views. As you can see from the Alexa traffic rank, WUWT has remained steadfastly popular since that pesky ClimateGate story a year ago. Way to go Anthony!
The traffic rank starts with Google at #1, Facebook at #2, YouTube at #3, Yahoo at #4…on down to WUWT which is at #15,974.
From four years ago,
Welcome to: Watts Up With That?
Posted on November 17, 2006 by Anthony Watts
As a frequent contributor to other blogs, I’ve found it to be a fun way of sharing ideas and discussions. I’d been toying with the idea of doing one of my own for awhile, and now that elections are over I felt the time was right as it appears I’ll have more time on my hands 😉
The idea here on this blog is somewhat “gee-whiz” in nature. I’ve always been fascinated by useful trivia, i.e. things that make you think rather than pointless things like Britney’s and KFed’s latest celebrity gossip.
If you’ve ever wondered about something puzzling, anything, or how things work, or why certain things are the way they are instead of some other way that might appear to make more sense, this is the place to pose the question. Hopefully I and others can supply an answer. Nothing is off-limits except crude language or personal attacks.
For example: Have you ever wondered “why the sky is blue during the day and black at night”? Or “why does your urine smell funny after eating Asparagus”? How about “why do cats appear aloof to their owners and dogs don’t”? “Does Disc Golf cause cancer”? (with apologies to Lon) These are the kinds of Q&A tidbits I’ll address here, plus occasionally some commentary on recent events.
Like Alan Chamberlain on “Dog’s Breakfast”, I prefer posts from people whom identify themselves. Handles are OK as long as I know who they belong to. But if there is a good reason that you want to make an anonymous post, I’ll consider it. There’s a moniker used on the popular tech discussion board Slashdot for such posts called “anonymous coward”, which may be a good way to describe “Tell it to the ER”. But hey, if you have something to say jump in, just be civil.
So does anybody have any gee-whiz questions?
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Congratulations Anthony and the hard working mods.
I know there are several regulars from Wales and it would be interesting to see a worldwide breakdown of your readers.
Warm regards to you all.
I think I may have become addicted.
WUWT = POTT ( portal on the truth) – for the real dope
Congratulations on your success Anthony, long may it last.
Next week we will celebrate two important WUWT milestones . The anniversary of Anthony’s first Blog, in Nov 17/06 and the announcement of the CRU email leak, 19/11/09. I remember, that eventful week last year, also reading on WUWT, the first reference to ‘Climategate’ by Bulldust. I propose to celebrate as suggested, with a glass, or two, of chilled Beaujolais to toast Anthony and moderatorsand of course, Steve MC and Mosher. I shall also set off fireworks from my balcony and send a donation to WUWT in gratitude….
Ahhh and may the Force be with you, my friends.
But hey, pay attention! Someone’s not watching! What also happened on 17th November? Crikey folks, celebration time coming up.
@ur momisugly Jeff Id “Open Letter on Climate Legislation”
@ur momisugly Sir McIntyre “Miracles and Strip Bark Standardization”
Have you wondered that WUWT changed BLOGS´CLIMATE?. It has definitely warmed up following almost exactly Mann´s Hockey Stick!! ☺
Anthony, congratulations and a BIG thank you. Its good, its, clean, its humorous and its scientific and highly informative without ad hominems, with the whole scientific spectrum; sceptic, lukewarmer, warmist, the whole lot, having the opportunity to comment. It is, I would say, democratic.
Jimbo says:
November 8, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Now there’s a URL I can recommend! 🙂
Unfortunately, that and my search skills haven’t managed to find the date of the 1,000,000 page view. Back then the first comment about that would typically be from some commentor gushing with praise, and there were few enough of us and the mega views rare enough to make it fun to be the first to note the passing. I think it happened sometime in March or April 2008.
Anthony tended to make note of major per-month view threshholds. Here are a few posts on threshholds passed:
http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/01/wattsupwiththat-anthony-watts-steven-goddard/
Joe Romm is jealous “the most meaningless statistic on the web – his 50 millionth hit .”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/25/another-small-milestone-for-wuwt/
20,000,000 views
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/15/10-million-page-views/
10,000,000 views. (Duh!)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/12/21/my-first-14-mil-week/
“Despite my having to cut back on posting and moderation to nights and weekends in order to devote more time to my livelihood during these economic down times, WUWT continues to grow.” [That’s 1/4 million views in a week, not 14 million. Clearly WUWT was and is doing better than the economy.]
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/03/another-record-month/
402,000 unique page views for the month of May. [About 1.1 million in March/April/May.]
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/02/18/thanks-to-all-my-readers/
First 100,000 page view month (only 50,000 a couple months before).
Congrats to Anthony and the team. I spend far too much time here every weekday, but regard this site as the the science education I used to regret not pursuing when I was much younger. WUWT is both addictive and mind-expanding at the same time, in the best way possible. I am incredibly grateful to everyone who contributes so much of themselves here.
Heartfelt congratulations, Anthony and all you mods!
I’ve been visiting here well before that day in November last year, for the education and the wonderful comments – iaw, for the joy of learned scientific debate, as opposed to political preachings disguised as ‘science’.
I applaud you especially because this has not changed, in spite of the millions more coming here for their daily dose of sanity.
ClimateGate made me jump into the waters here and drop the odd comment or two, because I am still learning.
After all – if one calls oneself a scientist, learning about new discoveries is part of the profession.
No decline to hide here.
Excellent Anthony,
I can remember the first 100,000!
I’m afraid you’re deluding yourself Antony.
Towards the end of last year Alexia changed the way they measure site frequentation.
They stopped measuring the number of packets in a bucket and started measuring directly in the T3 backbone (pipes) leading to the server. This gave an apparent increase in traffic.
Once you have homogenised the data for this effect you’ll find your traffic has been steadily decreasing since the beginning of 2009.
Looks like you’re trying to hide the decline.
It’s worth remarking that before there was Anthony Watts, there was John L. Daly. His Still Waiting for Greenhouse site began in 1999. His book The Greenhouse Trap came out in 1989. Sadly he died in 2004.
Well done Anthony, you and your team have changed the world for the better. Truly amazing. A national treasure – nay, INTERNATIONAL treasure. Robin (New Zealand).
Here are a couple of extracts from Green Agenda that I would not heard of last spring, let alone believed:-
“We should all want to be wise and careful stewards of the beautiful planet we call home. But most of us realise that humans in general are not being good stewards. We are wasteful with our natural resources and have reduced biodiversity. Therefore, when we read about groups and organisations calling for a ‘green revolution’ and a new relationship between humanity and nature it is easy to agree with their ideas.
However, certain aspects of the modern green movement that is permeating every segment of our society are not about protecting the environment. You don’t have to dig very deep to discover the true beliefs of the influential leaders who are using genuine concerns about the environment to promote an agenda of fear and control. Please carefully consider the implications of the opinions that they so openly and freely express:
(references and sources for the quotes below can be found here)
“The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”
– Club of Rome,
premier environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United Nations
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“We need to get some broad based support,
to capture the public’s imagination…
So we have to offer up scary scenarios,
make simplified, dramatic statements
and make little mention of any doubts…
Each of us has to decide what the right balance
is between being effective and being honest.”
– Prof. Stephen Schneider,
Stanford Professor of Climatology,
lead author of many IPCC reports”
I have to thank your truly excellent WUWT blog for giving me the spur for finding this alarming trash that is, almost as I type, being broadcast to the fertile minds of children , and some adults.