I really should stop linking to these bozos, since they don't ever bother to link to any sites outside their incestuous coterie of jebus-wanking apologetics sites, but I cannot resist. Ken Ham is bragging about his web traffic, and it's rather pathetic.
• In 2010, the Answers in Genesis main website had more than 10 million visits for the first time (10,225,465 visits, previously 8,726,503--a 17% growth) from more than 5 million unique visitors (5,445,617 unique visitors, previously 4,650,206--a 17% growth).
• The Creation Museum website had more than 1 million visits for the first time (1,079,290 visits, previously 899,890--a 19.9% growth).
• The Answers Vacation Bible School (VBS) website had more than 100,000 visits for the first time (110,767 visits, previously 34,231--a 223% growth), with almost half a million page views (476,551 page views, previously 122,301--a 289% growth).
Oooh. Millions are big numbers. But just to put it all into perspective, some random low-ranking non-entity of a godless college professor in the most rural part of Minnesota gets about 25-30 million visits per year, and yeah, it's growing every year. And his site links regularly to AiG, meaning a lot of the visitors to Ham's precious empire are there to laugh at him.
And I'm not bragging — I know I'm dwarfed by the really big players, and that web hits are not instruments of self-validation. You can get lots of traffic by being one of the dumbest punching bags for national stupidity on the web, after all, just like Answers in Genesis. That his traffic isn't even close to a mere blog tells you that biblical literalism possibly isn't all that popular a draw.
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