Record numbers of you are reading this headline right now

It's that time of year when we at The Register get our annual letter from the Audit Bureau of Circulation, confirming just how well we did during our regular November audit. The scores on the doors are these: 7,326,907 unique users visited the site that month, up from 6,657,164 in 2011 - a climb of just over 10 per cent and …

[Andrew Moore]

"a quarter that of The Sun"

hmmmm, the campaign to add 'Page 3' to the list of El Reg categories starts here.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "a quarter that of The Sun"

I too look forward to the daily inclusion of topless pictures of Raid arrays, amply sized server rooms and 19 year old nubile networking kit from Mansfield. Bring it on please.....

[mike2R]

Re: "a quarter that of The Sun"

Topless Playmobil?

[Goldmember]

Re: "a quarter that of The Sun"

Fry, Bender and Flexo in the robot strip club

Fry: "Woah, check out her exhaust pipe"

Bender and Flexo in unison: "Ugh! Pervert."

[deadlockvictim]

Re: "a quarter that of The Sun"

Did you not see those filthy pictures of users exposing their boxen for all to see?

I was shocked and offended, so I was.

In case you missed, you can get your voyeuristic kicks here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/26/ventblockers_2/

[LarsG]

I thought

That the standards of the comments had dropped over the last year, now I know why, it's the abundance of Americans coming to the site. Still hopefully we can help educate them.

[Rampant Spaniel]

@lars

Some of us are ex pats, so not technically fully American! Some of us event went to school, although given it was in North Yorkshire I'm not entirely sure it counts.

[Lars]

Re: @lars

@LarsG I think Rampant Spaniel.

[Rampant Spaniel]

Re: @lars

sorry :-) In my defence it is 4 am here ! and there is no real cheese!

[Lars]

Re: @lars

No problem either.

[itzman]

Re: "a quarter that of The Sun"

CPU porn not good enough for you then?

[Lee Dowling]

Re: "a quarter that of The Sun"

Half the Mirror Group readership or a quarter of The Sun's... that's pretty impressive. I don't dabble in media but that seems very good to me. Maybe there are more people out there with a brain than I initially thought.

So the next question is, how long until we see The Reg on the shelves in our local newsagent? :-)

[Darryl]

Re: "a quarter that of The Sun"

Just remember - "May I see your rack?" is not an acceptable request to make of a female sysadmin.

[tirk]

ABC denialists!

Lewis Page will be here in a minute disputing the figures

[Dan 55]

Re: ABC denialists!

I'd like to think I played my part to improve the readership figures.

After all, I delete cookies and flash cookies after every session.

[Andrew Moore]

Re: ABC denialists!

but that that just plays into the denialists' denialists hands (you know- those that deny the deniers)

[Phil O'Sophical]

Re: ABC denialists!

> those that deny the deniers

Nobody does that!

[Richard 120]

Re: deniers

Isn't that a unit of measurement for tights or something like that?

[tirk]

Re: deniers

Stocking up on the puns I see.

[Mondo the Magnificent]

Bumping up the stats...

Congrats ElReg.. this site is a legendary institution among us IT / Tech types

In the past year I have been located in the UK, France, Germany and now South Africa.. so although I am just one avid reader (and Commentard), I wonder if I helped bump up the stats just a fraction?

Either way, may the reader (say 'followers') number continue to mushroom

[Ian Yates]

Re: Bumping up the stats...

Pah! It was better before the newfags turned up.

The Reg is dying.

etc.

etc.

[Lars]

Re: Bumping up the stats...

You find the Glossary of Terms here:

http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/18549805.pdf

And it does not really matter. Facebook has a similar problem counting users not knowing how many are cats and dogs and rather avoiding such mathematics.

I used to read the Reg on my Nokia N92 quite often. Since this black cookies thing was added it does not work anymore. Anybody with similar problems. I hope The Register would do something about it.

Anyway I like to read you.

[James Micallef]

Good Job!!

Pints all round

[Psmiffy]

"the Register is unique"

and awesome too.

Kepp up the good work.

[Anonymous Coward]

I look forward

to many more years of appl/windows/linux bashing.

Innacurate journalism and lots of hyperboly and innuendo...

I love El Reg.............

[frank ly]

Well done!

"Our fellow sci/tech websites seldom allow any external scrutiny of their traffic, ..."

If they've nothing to hide then they've nothing to fear!

I'm sorry; I've been reading the Daily Mail (I found it on a train).

[Steven Roper]

Which begs the question

What is El Reg's readership as a percentage of that of the Daily Wail? If it's significant enough it might even restore some of my faith in humanity. Though that might be asking a bit much...

[WeaselNo7]

May I be the first...

... to welcome our carrion-eating ale-swilling overlords.

[Anonymous Coward]

Mmmmm...

1/2 the readership of Mirror group and 1/4 of The Sun...

A Race to the bottom then?

next week on El reg How <insert talentless reality star>uses their iPhone to find <other talentless brain-dead moron>.

[bill 36]

greetings from Austria

I do hope that Vulture Central is not too badly affected by the "blizzard conditions" today.

Here in central Europe we find it hilarious that 4" of snow can bring a country to a standstill. Friday is the right day to have it though.

There are no kangaroos in Austria btw :>)

[jonathanb]

Re: greetings from Austria

There's only 5mm at the moment, and the country is already at a standstill.

[Silverburn]

Re: greetings from Austria

Indeed Bill.

-9'C and 4" in some areas here in Switzerland. Everything is running normally...

[Kevin Johnston]

Re: greetings from Austria

Sadly this bit of Switzerland has less than 1" of snow....still jolly chilly though

[Greg J Preece]

Re: greetings from Austria

Here in central Europe we find it hilarious that 4" of snow can bring a country to a standstill. Friday is the right day to have it though.

The media are, as usual, playing it up like right shites. The BBC keep going on about a "rare RED weather warning." Yeah, that would be in Wales. On the Black Mountains. Ooooh, I'm so afraid!

The papers like to throw around "travel chaos!" and "country at a standstill" like they do everything else. And like every other regurgitated headline, their relationship with reality is strained at best.

This morning I got up, got into the car (which I didn't have to defrost, for the first time this week), and drove normally on perfectly serviceable roads/motorways into a major city. No issues at all. In fact, it was much nicer than normal, because so many people had actually listened to the media bleating and chickened out, the motorway was practically deserted.

[Lone Gunman]

same here

Was very surprised I didn't need to defrost the car and it was much warmer this morning (only -2C instead of -7C). Snow didn't hit here in London till around 9am but everything seems to be running OK, albeit with revised timetables on the trains.

No chaos yet but then we haven't had the worst of it yet!

[Kevin Johnston]

Re: same here

OMG......had a text from the wife saying that one of the channels in the UK was talking about Yellow Snow warnings......

Nearly fell off my chair laughing

[Vector]

Re: greetings from Austria

That must be like StormWatch!™ which is what we get here in Southern California at the slightest hint of a drizzle.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: greetings from Austria

Quite a few years back my wife and I were I LA; we saw a guy doing stand-up: he started his routine by saying that he was actually a meteorologist, but his job was so boring that he ended up doing comedy...

[Adam 1]

Re: greetings from Austria

Greetings from Oz.

We watch amused when news of imminent doom because the temperature hit 30C days (Sydney was 45.8C yesterday).

[Denarius]

Re: greetings from Austria and Oz

Indeed, Even some of trains were stopped. Similar to Ireland a decade or so ago when the heatwave was 27C.. Midwestern NSW, ( inland west of Sydney ) was a touch warmer. Cars, mostly new, stuck along the Hume Highway all way to Australian mexican capital. (Melbourne to foreigners) Not as warm as Manilya Bridge, NW WA around January 1987. Petrol was boiling in underground tanks at service station.

A dash of snow would be appreciated as the holidays are ending.

I take it that the heatwave here is proof of // drum roll please // Global Warming and the cold snaps in northern hemisphere are just weather ?

I agree with previous commentard that the quality of sarcasm is now lacking and even worse, the art of flaming has died. Mere ad-hominem attacks just are not good enough ! Perhaps the esteemed editors would repost their instructions to commentards ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Petrol boiling

Since the boiling point of petrol is at least 95°C, I'm calling you out on that one!

[jacobbe]

Its no coincidence that articles that i read here first then appear in the dead tree press. Congratulations.

[mickm]

Congratulations

Always an interesting and amusing read only let down by the quality of some of the comments. Even this may get slagged!

[BoldMan]

Re: Congratulations

Have a downvote for you trouble my good man! :)

Cheers El REeg, long may your pencils squeak and your keyboards click!

[Anonymous Coward]

Impressive

Nice work, chaps and chapesses.

[Mage]

"fellow sci/tech websites"

There are others??????

[Boris the Cockroach]

Actually

I like el-reg for the commentards

Never before have I seen such a wretched hellhole of violence, debauchery, and mindless bigotry as the 'people' who comment on an el-reg story*

They make daily mail readers look almost sane

Boris

*Except in the church

[Fred Flintstone]

Re: Actually

Never before have I seen such a wretched hellhole of violence, debauchery, and mindless bigotry as the 'people' who comment on an el-reg story*

And that's just the authors :)

[Khaptain]

Commentards Unite

What the article failed to mention is that the success is all due to the "Commentards", the articles themselves are just a pretext.......

[Cucumber C Face]

Re: Commentards Unite

Hmm - many a true word spoken in jest.

Paris? Because we haven't seen enough of her on The Register of late.

[Silverburn]

Additional stats required

Readership - all well and good. Now, how about:

- Servers

- storage stats

- bandwidth used

etc

[Shonko Kid]

Facebook accounting

'unique' users? How is this determined? I can exclusively reveal that during November 2012, I will have visited El Reg from at least 3 different machines/IP Addresses. I've forgotten how many times I've had to agree to the cookie policy. Though, having signed in on two of those machines, is the auditing clever enough to match those up?

Never-the-less, it's good to see El Reg going strong.

[Darryl]

Re: Facebook accounting

Speak for yourself!

I'd think a very apt description of El Reg readers/commentards would be "He's..... unique..."

[Adam 1]

Re: Facebook accounting

It's all good.

I can reveal during the same month I deliberately only read el reg using google cache, so it averages out.

[Trollslayer]

Life wouldn't be the same

without El Reg - very good serious articles and Bulgarian airbags!

[heyrick]

Result skewage

"Most of the rest of our readers are in Australia, Canada and northern Europe."

Don't forget, those using OperaMini or Opera in super-zippy-whoohoo mode will appear to be from...where is it, Finland?

Plus, I have two mobiles (between contracts; one phone has a very nice display, the other has a keyboard) and home broadband. Do you see me as two people or three?

I do hope, of course, that your advertising revenue adequately reflects this trend.

[Chris 171]

Re: Result skewage

Norway

[Greg J Preece]

Re: Result skewage

Don't forget, those using OperaMini or Opera in super-zippy-whoohoo mode will appear to be from...where is it, Finland?

Better make sure to account for both of them, then. Not both browsers, I mean; both people. :-p

*Ducks to avoid Opera fanboy rage*

[El Bob]

Is it just me....

.....or does anyone else want to know how many Olympic-size swimming pools that number of visitors would fill?

Mines the one with the Reg standards guidebook in it.

[Silverburn]

Re: Is it just me....

Hmmm. The idea of olympic pools filled with people has a slight ring of Soylent green about it, if you ask me.

Especially you consider it's more efficient to store them in liquidised form...

[Darryl]

Re: Is it just me....

I think the usual media measurement for something like this is how many times around the Earth would they reach if placed end-to-end? Or how close to the Moon they'd reach is stacked up.

[Adam 1]

Re: Is it just me....

How many double decker buses would be required to ..... No hang on, I think I did it wrong.

[Rik Myslewski]

Re: Is it just me....

You'd be highly amused by the Reg's standards guidebook, aka its "Style Guide". The sections on British v American English would engender more than a wee bit of chortling, let alone the list of disallowed ethnic slurs. A fun place to work, to be sure...

[Richard 120]

Quality over quantity

I like to think that the readership of el Reg is of a different quality of readership than that of the Sun or the Mirror and that the readership can pour scorn on the technical ineptitude of those alternative readerships.

I also like to think that people are inherently good, old dogs CAN learn new tricks and that Bacon sandwiches are absolutely vital to a healthy diet.

Don't change el Reg

[mhoneywell]

Splendid

Excellent work indeed. I shall continue to educate my, and other people's, staff with the wisdom you publish. I shan't rest till you 1Billion readers. Then the world may be a better place at last.

[Ketlan]

Tentacular news!

'Vultures based around the globe are reporting the news (with or without IT angle) 24 hours a day, with our Australian tentacle collating the Asia-Pacific coverage on the watch between those of London and San Francisco'

Do vultures have tentacles? Just asking.

Congrats to the Reg and all who sail in her for the enormous numbers. :-)

[Palf]

Bring on the Icons

Can't be iconoclastic without icons in the first place. So long live the icons and the shibboleths. Know what I mean?

"The internet without The Register is like a fish without a bicycle" - Anon.

[IHateWearingATie]

I for one shall be leaving El Reg...

... unless they up their quotient of Paris Hilton stories.

That or change the icon.

[Trevor 3]

Congrats guys

I never thought I would align myself with any media company, but as you're here you'll do.

Its nice to be able to congratulate or rip apart any reporter, and have them come back at you with more facts and opinions and be happy to take part in conversations with us.

the news stories are what you do. You're going to do that anyway. But its that interaction, and the paper plane experiments, and the playmobile stuff, the fairly unmoderated comment boards and countless other "random" stuff you do that sets you apart. This is why we're here.

THAT AND THE BAD PUNS, DODGY ALLITERATION AND HEADLINES IN CAPS!

Thank you and roll on 2013!

[Will Godfrey]

Good Lord. I never realised that El Reg was not an exclusive society. I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you that such common riff-raff are permitted access.

Signed:- Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.

[The Godfather]

Stat's be damned...

There's no better site for fresh news, good articles, El Reg's sense of fun headlines and writing, and of course all the slanted/passionate/strange and vitriolic commentards.... GREAT STUFF

[5thcrewman]

I'm just looking for the latest update on LOHAN.

[Rambler88]

The icon says it all

Here's to you!

For a chaser, may I suggest...

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/wild-chef/2011/09/making-bacon-infused-bourbon

... or perhaps try it with a nice peaty single malt.

[Winkypop]

Who are these dead-tree competitors you speak of?

Do people still wait hours or days to read static news?

(Page 3 thrills aside)

[coastwalker]

Respectible source

Everyone has the news but the Reg has amusing childish headlines and best of all no faux Win 8 slidy tile interface. Oh how I hate those sites that have multicolored tiles randomly sliding all over the page, death is too good for them. Well done to the Reg for not having multicolored flashing gif or their modern equivalent all over the interface.

[Lallabalalla]

Record numbers of you are reading this headline right now

I'm not.

oh, wait.

[Jim 57]

Spoil sport

Don't want to be a smart -ass spoil-sport...

but don't most of us read El Reg from at three/four different devices? I.e. Home+work+phone+tablet