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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You know, like, am I the only “denier” whose conspiracy-theory “ideations” have taken note of the homonymic reasonances of David Appell’s name with that Satanic, fruit-snack deal offered up to Eve by that tree-hugging, serpent-dude weirdo in the garden of Eden, and everything?
Hey! David Appell!! BITE ME!!!
Several still existing newspapers in the Netherlands began as resistance publications during WWII. They were not funded by Big XXX but run by volunteers, some of whom had to pay for it by their lives. I wish you ten times as much visitors as you already have.
Congratulations!
Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. is working her way up too.
Global Rank 86,975
United States Rank 37,645
WUWT to Discover:
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“\F” is my thumbed nose emoticon and until someone can prove otherwise, I consider myself to be the inventor.
DirkH wrote –
“In which you can ponder what mysterious things happen on WUWT.”
Mysterious indeed !, apart from the polar latitudes the globe warms and cools as it swings out of the orbital shadow into the Sun’s radiation each 24 hours so it is a genuine mystery how this website manages to miss out on this fact along with the opposition.
” It is a fact not generally known that,owing to the difference between solar and sidereal time,the Earth rotates upon its axis once more often than there are days in the year” NASA /Harvard
Mysterious ? – I consider it a phenomenon like none seen before on this planet.
Thanks for the good work.
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Can someone teach me a little about David Appell? He’s got a bee in his bonnet about WUWT, why?
Congrats Anthony!!! You have built a brand.
Clearly there is a consensus that wattsupwiththat is right!!!! !!
Warmists think that success has to be well funded. They assume WUWT HAS TO BE well fossil fuel funded. What they forget is that honesty and transparency and truth are FREE!!!! Try it Warmists, it won’t work for you. 😉 Heh, heh.
All I look for is truth and common sense. Discovery has LOST that. Their documentaries used to be a beacon of knowledge. but AG (After Gore) they are nothing more than a Global Warming, Climate Change, Sustainability, or whatever the current term is these days. They have reached the height of ridiculousness with their blatant plug for global warming. The examples are legion, I am sure each reading this has seen one. I no longer watch, read or view any of their products including web pages.
I clearly recall on article that showed the effects of the acidification of the ocean, many vivid color photos of the dead, ding and bleached coral. I am certain that even an above average intelligence high school student would read the article and take away the impression that the effects of global warming are here now, and cite this article as proof. It was only after reading the article three times and then the captions under the photos that I discovered a sentence at the end of one of the photos that the pictures were taken in the Mediterranean ocean near an active volcanic vent. I guess that satisfies their “truth” requirements.
Congratulations to everyone who make this such a compelling site. I suspect it will only climb higher.
I think this remarkable result tells us that there are a lot of intelligent people out there looking for good science and lively, lightly-moderated discussion. Were I Discover, I would be studying WUWT to see how I could get back into public favor.
Propaganda is expensive. Honesty is free.
Congratulations again!!!
Anthony,
Love your blog – thanks to you, your moderators, contributing authors, and commentators. Congratulations!
I have a question though; did you expect this level of recognition/readership those many years ago you embarked on this; and are you having a good time now that WUWT has essentially become a substantive media outlet?
Anthony and mods: keep up the great work here!
Kudos for becoming MSM –The one with the facts, not memes. This site has some, maybe the most and best informed commenters I’ve seen. There are a lot of heavyweights who occasionally comment as well. Again, my congratulations to you and the line-dog mods. (that’s not a slur BTW)
Best Regards.
The statistics shows my own blog reading. WUWT, GWPF and Bishop Hill are my main blogs on this subject.
Congrats Anthony! Well deserved!
I subscribed to Discover mag for some years until at some point I asked myself, “Why am I reading this drivel?”
It used (long ago) to not be drivel. Sad.
But WUWT is my home page. I love the smell of dynamic science any time of day!
Thanks to all who make this the special place it is!
SMcG says:
January 14, 2014 at 12:47 pm
I know what I’d do! I’d have a life again! Actually life on WUWT is pretty good. I’ll be keeping that Time on Site up a while longer.
Canman says:
January 14, 2014 at 3:07 pm
What you wanted was the <pre> HTML command. Pre for preformatted.
Well, better mousetrap, beaten paths …