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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Congratulations on your success. I used to be a GW believer until a few years ago. Then I stumbled over your site, which told me to check the evidence – HADCRUT4 and similar datasets that showed no warming in twelve years, when all the models said it should have gotten quite significantly warmer. To be a scientist is to follow the evidence wherever it leads you.
There’s a kind of personality that lusts after gloom and doom – and most of us are more likely to check the news when we know there’s something bad going on. It’s not a conscious conspiracy; rather, it is something natural selection bred into us, a useful survival trait that sometimes gets out of hand. That rustle in the grass might be the wind, or an approaching lion; which assumption is safer? I’m relieved to know that AGW is either nonexistent or greatly overstated. Keep up the good work!
Congratulations, people come here because after some time they can tell what is AGW bullocks and what has some credibility. The activists are transparent in their extremism.
Good grief, some people must be sulking real bad. Congratulations
I found Climate Audit a few years ago and from there I caught on with this site. I return often for a few reasons. Honest articles that are well written, commentary that advances my understanding, willingness by the community to provide the actual numbers/sources so that I can see for myself what the underlying science is actually showing us.
The strength of this site is the content. I have recommended this site to more than 40 people who have asked me for a place to find an honest analysis of the science.
Congratulations to all who have worked so hard to make this blog such a success.
Congratulations Anthony, mods, commenters for making WUWT the best, and the most stimulating intellectual oasis on the web.
Excellent news, all; it looks as if sanity and rationality can prevail after all. And congrats and thanks to Anth*ny for spearheading a noble effort with this website and the m*ds for keeping it going in what a few years ago was a badly-needed, nay, critically-needed information and interactive resource/discussion site working to counter the mind-numbing ‘idiocy’ prevalent on CAGW and otherwise flooding ‘the internets’ like Grant took Richmond or, if one prefers, as Kudzu ‘invaded the south’.
Kudzu, for those not familiar – http://www.jjanthony.com/kudzu/houses.html
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Hm. I have about 30 tabs open, minimum, at any given time. Of those, at least 4 are WUWT Front Page and Sea Ice, T & Notes, and one that flips as I go through my email notices and check them out. So what effect would that all have on Alexa stats? These may be open for hours at a time, sometimes days.
Agggh. Hadn’t heard of Climatecrocks.com before, so I took a peek. Time on site, very little. It will never get another of my clicks.
Gkell1 says:
January 14, 2014 at 1:02 pm
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….
This site is about SCIENCE. Nearly all the science in FACT points to skepticism, but this site will publish anything scientific on the subject.
Also quite a few on this site are lukewarmers. Lord Christopher Monckton falls into that category.
The only lukewarmers who make sense are the microwarmers, who state up front that AGW is trivial, nugatory, and negligible.