While I knew I was gaining on Grist, this was a surprise to me when I checked it today, so I thought I would share. The graph below shows many of the blogs and websites on climate. The Discover Magazine metric also includes traffic for blogs.discovermagazine.com where angry people like the “Bad Astronomer” blogged about climate.
All data/screencaps is from from my Alexa.com account. For traffic, lower numbers are better, for example, Google Traffic rank is #1.
Here is the data in tables:
The bounce rate is telling. For those of you who don’t know what that means see the definition here
People ask me how I do this. Some assume I must be funded by some massive “big oil” campaign or some “dark money”, but to be honest, it is just me and a few contributors that put up stories a few times a day, plus some Google adwords revenue, of which wordpress.com takes about half, since they host the site, provide the bandwidth, and manage the advertising. I have no control over it.
As always, to my readers, contributors, and moderators, a sincere thank you.
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Thank you Anthony for holding aloft the banner of truth!
The bounce rate table is very pleasing to see. Largely because I enjoy seeing SkS suffering such rejection.
But I wonder how volatile these figures are. Is this really the sign of SkS going the way of RealClimate?
And well done to our host and and the team
Well done, a just reward for an excellent net resource. .
Anthony: Spent several minutes looking this one over. Statistically it is STUNNING!!!
The others (except for the Global Warming Policy Foundation)…are PEANUTS compared to WUWT. Looking out at 2′ of snow, (old, just another 3″ this morning), 18 F, 25 MPH winds in Mpls…and thinking about you “suffering” in Chico. DON’T RUB IT IN my man! You deserve that weather.
You the MAN
After looking at the definition, does bounce rate adjust for RSS readers that send you directly to articles? I always just close the current article and then click on the next link in Feedly, so I never navigate within WUWT. The time-on-site seems a better indicator (and is also favorable). Thanks for the great work!
Well Done!!
I can understand Appell’s ranking. When he makes statements like:
What also is a very interesting number is the percent of visitors that came from a search engine. Go ahead and check for WUWT, it’s further down the page. WUWT is usually in the 5-10% range. Many forums and blogs are in the 50% range.
This seems to indicate that Googles panda is giving low values for WUWT, despite the high original -not copied- content and it means that the visitors of WUWT know what they are doing, while for other sites many if not most visitors just make a random visit.
If Panda did not downplay WUWT with 50% search engine hits WUWT could easily be in the top 5000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda
Well done!
Congratulations Anthony & mods, well deserved. 🙂
Also the commenters on here. I’ve learned so much.
Thanks to all. May truth prevail.
JD.
🙂
“…truth will out.”
Many thanks.
And now, at 10,205 …. with a bullet … Watts Up With That.
Congratulations. I suggest you are where you are because the site has integrity in a subject area where integrity is a scarce commodity.
Well deserved. Your blog is not only filled with science and gentle humor but the comment section does not degenerate into childish Romper Room “debate”. I like that the comments are often as fact-filled and interesting as the posts. Yours and the moderators work is appreciated.
Phil Plait’s rants about “climate deniers” used to bother me, but now I just laugh at how clueless this intelligent man is. It’s ironic how his blog started out to debunk all the scaremongering peripheral to astronomy, but he’s oblivious to the same behavior concerning the climate. His post today is a doozy of disinformation and invective. Any self-proclaimed skeptic such as he ought to begin by examining his own prejudices. But no, it’s too easy to parrot the party line. No doubt WUWT’s surpassing DM will get the fanboys over there agitated, so expect to see a temporary spike. I expect it will just be a passing “El Nino” event, though.
Btw, Plait’s crowing today is a claim that the “denialist” are wrong because they don’t publish in the journals. Notwithstanding the fact that those who aren’t sciactivists do publish, Phil seems ignorant of the declaration by some of his heroes that “we’ll keep them out of the journals even if we have to redefine peer-review.” Pity the man. There are none so blind as will not see.
You kicked realclimates butt by more than a factor of 10. LOL. Good job.
Must admit I had never heard of Grist.org. Looks heavily funded, with a job opening for a Development Director charged with raising $3.5 million. So who’s funding them?
Ample staff, too: http://grist.org/about/staff/
Congrats on beating them. Daniel defeats Goliath!
/Mr Lynn
Congrats. Daily Lurker. Love watching all of you hash it out.
chaleureuses félicitations de Belgique, patrie du chef de gare, Van Yperzele,comme quoi, chacun porte sa croix…
encore bravo
Congratulations, I have learnt a great deal from reading your blog. I first heard about you in the Sunday Telegraph column of Christopher Booker, who often cites you as a source of information. Nice to see the copycats and plagiarists are no-where to be seen..
We, the sensible people, love this website….and it shows. In Your Face….Climate Alarmists!!!
Congratulations, Anthony. Your tallest and effort are being increasingly recognized.
So, if I click in to one blog post at a time from an RSS feed instead of going to the site and browsing from post to post does that show as bounces in the stats?
Anthony, the facts are that you and your site are miracles. Sad to see the loss of the miraculous Tisdale but glad to see that the miraculous Eschenbach continues. ‘Miracle’ is the only word that applies. Anything less is faint praise, in my humble opinion.
Congrats to you, Anthony, mods, contributors, and those who offer comments and discussion.
172 million views plus as of this comment.
Now if there were a way to consider the level of intellect of those who visit WUWT they would need a new chart.
Thanks to all and a special h/t to FOIA who brought many here in search of the truth.
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