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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Nice!
I wonder if we could get WUWT TV on channel 361 via Directv?
I hear a spot has opened up 😉
I’ve noticed on the wordpress dashboard that you’ve also had the Top Blog on WordPress for some time now.
Congratulations Anthony and WUWT crew!
WUWT is now a part of the main stream media!
Mac
You and your staff are beyond remarkable. Without you, the war could very much be over and I might be sitting in a chair, recovering post-lobotomy a la Jack Nicholson. Don’t ever, EVER give up. I think I speak for many when I say that we all have your back. 🙂
Oh, Congratulations!!
Also nice to see the Bishop doing so well. And the GWPF. The bounce rate shows their viewers are actually trying to read and understand.
Mr Lynn says:
January 14, 2014 at 11:36 am
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?
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According to their latest annual report 50% of the funding comes from grants and 21% from major donor.
Wendy Schmidt is on their board of directors and Schmidt Family Foundation has given grant money to Grist and donations through the affiliated 11th Hour Project.
The Schmidt Family Foundation was established by Google founder Eric Schmidt (Wendy’s husband) using the proceeds from the IPO when Google went public. As of December 31, 2011, the Foundation’s assets were valued at $178 million, which included $30.7 million in Google Class A stock.
So it likes they are funded (at least in part) by Big Google. I wonder if this, in anyway, affects Google search results for climate related words.
eyesonu says January 14, 2014 at 12:03 pm
As a regular lurker and occasional commenter here I choose to take that as a compliment.
But I note their are two ways to interpret that insight and from the inside my judgement may go awry.
It’s a sad fact that such statements cannot be rationally self-assured.
Well done!
BTW folks – this is how we (on the rational, mentally stable side of the CAGW issue) win the argument with the general public. More people turning to WUWT for their information on climate change means more people rejecting the insane, inane, and profane “science” being disseminated by the climate industry (and their sycophants in the MSM). Tell your friends and family…
“WUWT status report: now more popular than Discover Magazine”
Oh – and props for not saying you’re more popular than Jesus!
🙂
(disclaimer: this be a joke)
But of course.
And then there’s the 2014 Bloggies coming up http://2014.bloggi.es/ It would be nice to see you get another Weblog of the Year to match last year’s award.
Soon you’ll hit a tipping point and everyone will “discover” WUWT and you’ll become an overnight success.
Every once in a while a “Galileo” comes along…
Congrats, Anthony! I bet WordPress is very happy that you are a customer of theirs.
Keep up the great work for the great content that you and your contributors provide to the rest of us.
Upward and onward!
REPLY: yes, you’d think that, but wordpress.com recently pulled the rug out from under thousands of bloggers by yanking important and useful features without notice. My experiment with their invitation to join “Enterprise” level hosting failed miserably, since most of the plugins they offered were useless and/or buggy, documentation sketchy, and prices for the service too high to make it worth my while. I gave up on it. Overall though wordpress.com is a good value – Anthony.
@leon Interesting that they took out the science and technology category this year. Some whiners apparently made life difficult for the founder last year, due to WUWT’s popularity, the usual “denier” arguments were thrown at him. I guess he just doesn’t want to be hassled this year.
So, now it is the best “topical” category.
see: http://2014.bloggi.es/#topical
Congratulation Anthony, mods, writers, and to all those who comment – all of you together make this site remarkable indeed. Here in Canada the absolute sure sign of WUWT’s importance is the AGW believers hate this site with a messianic passion. That says it all when your opposition despise you so viciously – they know this site is a grave danger to their cause. This is the power of one man’s vision – yes indeed – one man can change the world!
Big Oil Money achieves so much 🙂
Now to be serious – I’m continually impressed and arrive without benefit of Google Search!
I think the average “dwell time” is also an impressive feature, an indicator that people read the truly great stuff from you and your contributors.
WUWT has been a part of my daily life for many years now – don’t really know what I’d do without it…
“@leon Interesting that they took out the science and technology category this year.”
That is the Leftist Way: if you cannot beat them, try to make them obscure even if it requires changing the language.
I stopped reading Phil Plait (Bad Astronomer) a while back. His recent move to Slate ( http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/11/02/big-news-bad-astronomy-is-moving-to-slate-magazine/ ) fits with his more-political writings of the warmist age.
His last post there is all about how “deniers” avoid peer review (sigh). http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/14/climate_change_another_study_shows_they_don_t_publish_actual_papers.html
albnertalad says:
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January 14, 2014 at 12:47 pm
We know what you mean and agree with it and still love you even if you can’t type (any better than we can.)
Heh.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/14/3149961/silence-lambs-climate-coverage-drops/
I thought that somebody had accomplished a ‘mission impossible’ by breaking into this website and posting a thread entitled ‘Global Warming is REAL but NOT a Big DEAL’ so as to create an identity crisis but no, this website pushed the self-destruct button in an entirely voluntary way by re-posting that thread. The person promoting human control over global temperature was truly delighted and he has every reason to be considering he actually explained it to you in childlike terms the politics behind it never mind what is factual and what is ephemeral.
Unbelievable !.
[Please use one (1) screen name, Gerald. Thank you. ~mod.]
Congrats Anthony and Co. There is a “goodness” here, along with a whole lot of science, and it really does invite intelligent readers to stay and look around. The “other side” doesn’t see it, feel it, or understand it, and even if they did, I doubt they’d find it to be something desirable. It’s here in spades, and it works. 🙂
A little breath of sanity and perspective is a valuable commodity Anthony, and you give it for free.
Thanks BTW. 🙂
Gkell1, Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Alan Robertson says:
January 14, 2014 at 12:59 pm
albnertalad says:
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January 14, 2014 at 12:47 pm
We know what you mean and agree with it and still love you even if you can’t type (any better than we can.)
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Oops just got up from the graveyard shift – lol!
Excellent work!