Thanks to everyone that continues to help make WUWT:
“…the world’s most viewed climate website”
– Fred Pearce The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming
Here’s some year end numbers from my wordpress.com hosted stats page. All numbers represent full page views.
Here’s the data table of completed page views, peak month in green:
WordPress.com sent me this interesting (but a bit silly) year-end summary via email:
There are about 1 million books published worldwide per year. This blog was viewed about 34,000,000 times in 2010. That’s about 34 times as much as the total number of books published in 2010
In 2010, you wrote 1884 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 4175 posts.
Obviously Climategate and Copenhagen in December 2009 was a watershed traffic event, and as interest waned and summer set in, so did traffic. But, the overall trend remains upward:
I offer a special thanks to my moderation team, who work tirelessly in the background to keep this forum running smoothly. Thanks also go to guest posters who help bring a diversity of ideas and discussion.
And for those if you that have sent private messages of encouragement, I sincerely thank you.
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Anthony,
And on top of everything else, your success makes Joe Romm apoplectic.
Seriously, yours is a wonderful blog. I check in every evening and I always find something of interest. Hope all is well with your family.
Keep fighting the good fight.
Happy New Year,
Walt
Congratulations Anthony and crew! And a big thankyou to those who post and comment! I check this site daily and obviously value the knowledge I gain here! Please continue to be the best science website in the world!
As a visitor from early summer of 2008, I thank you so much Anthony and The Team.
Today is the coldest for this season, and the northern (and the Japan Sea side) part of Japan is now having heavy snowfall:
http://www.jma.go.jp/jp/bosaijoho/radar.html#a_top
(Click the bottom-left orange button to watch the past 3-hour trend at 10-min steps)
Thanks to the ridge running though the mainland, Tokyo seldom has snowfall but receives cold dry northerly wind, and the temperature was 1 degC this morning (now 10:30 am JST).
Wish a happy new year everyone!
Yes indeed, well done to all.
Ok…now if you throw out that spike as an anomoly, and then take the step function after the anomoly, we see that readership is in a decline.
🙂
Congrats, going stronger than ever!!
Congratulations Anthony from soggy Queensland where as late as mid last year it was never going to rain again because of global warming and now we’re awash because of global warming
Your site is certainly one of my favourites
Just a quick thank you to Anthony, guest posters and the mods for a site that is a daily read. A thank you also to the commenters who make for a very lively discussion.
Happy New Year everyone!
Anthony,
Your WUWT blog with its wonderful team is what the MSM should be like.
I love what you do.
Congratulations for your accomplishments.
John
Congrats and thanks for the opportunity to be a guest poster.
Hey guys, how about popping over to the tip jar?
Frequent flyer. Never dissapointed. Love the place.
Cheers!
BTW, the tips and notes comment box has disappeared again… OK if I post the following here? It is a good laugh.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scientist-climate-20110105,0,6481221.story
Something along the lines of; Dog swears he is a Cat “I know I look like a Dog, and I act like a Dog, but I am a Cat. Really. But I am growing tired of being a Cat because of all the other Cats bad behaviour, so I might become a Dog. I wonder if he is related to Rahm.
Anthony and the team, thank you all for the work you do and the effort into making the data about climate change available for all to see and comment on because I know I would never have gained a more knowledgeable take on this particular subject in such a short space of time on my own. I can safely say the discussion is not as simplified as I used to view it! It’s been said before but it would be wicked to see the other pro-AGW sites traffic and see how they rate with WUWT 😉
As others have commented above, I check this site multiple times a day as part of my daily routine. It makes me think, and it brings to my attention information I would never have time to find on my own.
The discussions and debate among the regular contributors have become a necessary part of my life. I find the intelligent and perceptive posts and the responses refreshing and revive my hope that all the world is not awash in sloppy thinking and follow the leader trends. It has sharpened my beliefs on many subjects.
Thanks to all who participate and of course to Anthony for his leadership and the fine crew of moderators he has assembled to keep this blog at the top of so many peoples daily information fix.
Larry
I never paid much attention to climate issues until I read a bit about the controversy in the UK over “An Inconvenient Truth.” Then I watched “The Great Global Warming Swindle” when it was first broadcast and was convinced something was wrong. A long spell in hospital last year gave me the time to research, and the ClimateGate emails confirmed it, we were being conned.
This site has become required daily reading, along with Bishop Hill, EU Referendum, Steven Goddard, Tom Nelson and others. What I appreciate is the science and the tone of the debate; moderate, polite, intelligent. I contrast this with the rants of George Monbiot, Marcus Brigstocke, Joe Romm et al which have little to do with the science and all to do about belittling “unbelievers” like me.
All my family are confirmed sceptics thanks to the information I glean here and elsewhere. As I travel extensively for business I find more and more people who don’t know but are unconvinced of the warmist propaganda and it doesn’t take much to get them thinking and pointing to this site usually works. This is in stark contrast to 2 years ago when to even question AGW it was met with stares of disbelief and people edging away from you.
Thank you and keep up the good work.
Benjamin P. says:
January 6, 2011 at 1:36 pm
I submit you get your information about Fox News from the DNC or any of the alphabet news channels, and probably from rags like the New York Times, too. You certainly don’t get it from watching Fox News.
BTW, it’s “winning”, not “wining” unless, of course, you equate spirits with success.
Thanks for all your hard work, Anthony & Mods! I find the quality of scientific discourse on WUWT to be first-rate & always enjoy stopping by.
Cheers & keep up the good work, Charles the DrPH!
Anthony:
Congratulations on having the best climate site on the internet. I make a point of visiting WUWT daily and the only complaint I have about your site is that it’s frequently too interesting. During the 2 years that I’ve known about WUWT, I’ve learned an incredible amount about climate science (the real stuff, not what the watermelons are trying to get people to believe). This has been very useful on a number of occasions when I’ve had people tell me about the latest incarnation of thermagedon that was going to happen any time now and I was able to set them straight. I’ve steered a number of people towards WUWT which has a very good balance of topics ranging from the understandable by anyone literate to graduate degree helpful.
Aside from the climategate emails, one of the most important postings on WUWT may be todays Knox and Douglass paper showing no increase in ocean temperatures despite steadily rising CO2 levels. Considering the oceans act as a calorimeter, CAGW may have finally sustained a mortal blow.
Hotrod LarryL, said it best for me {thanks HLL!}.
And of course a big thank you to you Anthony and everyone else for bringing this informative unbiased site to us.
Glad the troll control is on, makes for great daily reading on the threads as well.
A few years back, had a conflict with my daughter who was being taught in school that Greenland was just a propaganda effort to get people to move there – her explanation of what she was taught. We had a very frank discussion and fortunately today she’s a skeptic and can handle the silliness that floats around about AGW and the ‘poor starving or drowning polar bears’ at the college she attends. But at that point I had a sinking feeling…something wasn’t right.
RE: donations to WUWT, a good yard stick to consider is even a portion of the cost of daily newspapers/media that are no longer purchased. WUTH has a place in our household budget this year. 🙂
Dear Anthony,
I am truly grateful to you and your marvellous team.
Your perseverence in maintaining WUWT to its high level of credibility, morality and veracity brings together different people throughout the world, and enables us to arrive at our own conclusions without any political slant.
With heartfelt thanks,
Chris
Many congratulations and thanks to you and all the team for making this site a beacon of sanity, sense and real science. I frequently find myself in a state of near despair at the prospect of the mad future being designed and promoted by the AGW cultists and the sheep who follow them unquestioningly (especially here in the UK and the EU, where the delusion is already enshrined in laws which will drive us to poverty and darkness, both literal and intellectual). Coming here daily restores my hope that these lunatics can be defeated by reason, despite the power and influence of the conmen, fools and outright knaves who promote the fallacy. Feliciter!
Congratulations to Anthony & team and all who have contributed. For an aged non contributing geography it is my daily looked forward to reading. Thank you all very much.
Congratulations Anthony, and all the Team.
I have been reading WUWT for about 2 years now and I have become addicted.
I need a daily fix and my biggest complaint is I never seem to get the chores
and jobs done. There is always one more interesting article or link to view.
Damn! just remembered I should have got my hair cut today.. Ah Well
All the best for the New Year for all of you.
Ken
Idd;
“WUTH”?? Your money’s going astray! It’s WUWT!!
😉 😉
This is good for a giggle…
Here are the sight info comments from Alexa for Realclimate and WUWT-
RealClimate
About RealClimate (realclimate.org): Commentary on climate science news by working climate scientists, with discussion.
RealClimate’s three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 136,655. The site has been online for at least six years. The site has attained a traffic rank of 40,916 among users in the US, where approximately 56% of its audience is located. Relative to the overall population of internet users, the site’s audience tends to be aged 45–55 and over 65; they are also disproportionately high-income, childless men browsing from home who have postgraduate educations. Visitors to Realclimate.org spend approximately 68 seconds on each pageview and a total of two minutes on the site during each visit.
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Watts Up With That?
Wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com’s three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 488,417. The fraction of visits to this site referred by search engines is very small, and visitors to this site spend roughly seven minutes per visit to the site and 45 seconds per pageview. Almost all visitors to Wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com come from the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 68,010. Roughly 19% of visits to the site are bounces (one pageview only).
So the typical RC visitor is a college educated middle-aged childless man browsing from home… Who writes this stuff?
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/realclimate.org
REPLY: I don’t know where you got that text for WUWT, perhaps the old startup URL of wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com ? It’s not current. But this is what Alexa.com currently says:
Wattsupwiththat.com is ranked #15,452 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. While about 55% of this site’s visitors are in the US, where it is ranked #4,677, it is also popular in New Zealand, where it is ranked #687. This site can be found in the “Climate Change Skeptics” category of sites. About 51% of visits to the site are bounces (one pageview only). Wattsupwiththat.com’s visitors view an average of 2.5 unique pages per day.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wattsupwiththat.com
And, to answer your question, it is automatically generated.
– Anthony
Being a global warming believer, I would suggest that your site stats are not increasing but on a decreasing trend.
You need to invest £ms in advertising to address this clear problem with promoting your site, in my Goremless Industries service. Do it, part with the cash before it’s too late and the downward trend becomes unstoppable and you end up with -1000000 site view a month!
The end is nigh…
Amen