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Updated: September 9, 2026
ElNinoLive tracks one thing: the 2026–27 El Niño. Live NOAA and NASA data, three ENSO indices side by side, and plain-language explanation of what each one actually measures.
If your product reaches people who plan around weather — agriculture, insurance, energy, commodities, logistics, outdoor recreation — this is a small audience with unusually little wasted attention.
The numbers
Everything below is measured from our own Google Analytics, Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. No estimates, no projections. Figures are for the week to 7 September 2026 and refresh monthly.
| Visitors per day | ~761 average, 1,147 on the best day |
| Sessions per week | 6,459 |
| Page views (28 days, top 25 pages) | 25,288 |
| Search impressions, Bing (7 days) | 59,832 |
| Search impressions, Google (7 days) | 12,252 |
| Search clicks, Bing (7 days) | 2,566 |
| Search clicks, Google (7 days) | 1,830 |
| Average Google position | 5.97 |
| Confirmed newsletter subscribers | 65 |
Three footnotes on that table, because a number without its caveat is not a measurement. The two Bing rows are from 8 September: on 9 September Bing's API returned an error, and we would rather quote yesterday's real figure than today's guess — which is also why the two engines are listed separately instead of added into one total across two different weeks. The page-view row counts our top 25 pages, so it is a floor, not a ceiling: the tail is real traffic and is not in that number. And Google's week runs to 6 September rather than the 7th, because Search Console reports with a two-to-three day lag.
Where the traffic comes from, sessions over the same seven days: Google 1,943, Bing 1,774, direct 953, DuckDuckGo 774, Yahoo 377, Ecosia 221, Reddit 103, regional Yahoo and Bing domains 84.
DuckDuckGo, Yahoo and Ecosia all serve Bing's index, so the honest way to read that list is by index rather than by brand: 51% of visits arrive through Bing's, 31% through Google's. If you have been sizing this site by its Google numbers alone, you have been looking at under a third of the visits and at a sixth of the weekly search impressions — 12,252 of the 72,084 the two engines show us between them.
That gap has been closing fast, which is worth stating because two versions ago this page said Google was our fifth source. It is now our first by brand: Google clicks went 145, 324, 397, 494, 557, 613, 1,700, 1,830 over eight weeks, and the average position moved 10.4 → 8.9 → 5.97.
Two things worth saying plainly. The audience is still small and early — this site launched in July 2026. And it is growing through the event, not through paid acquisition. The figure on this page has read ~110 visitors a day for the week to 6 August, then ~321 for the week to 23 August, ~408 for the week to 31 August, and now ~761. We leave the old numbers in the sentence on purpose: the trend is the argument, and it is checkable against every previous version of this page.
The subscriber list is small but not casual. Without naming anyone, the confirmed subscribers write from a United Nations food agency, a multilateral development bank, a national health ministry, a global container shipping line, two international agribusinesses, a consumer-health manufacturer, and universities and school districts. That is the audience this site was built for, and it is why we sell attention rather than impressions.
We do not track email opens — that is switched off deliberately — so we have no open rate to quote and will not invent one.
Why the timing matters
This is not an evergreen weather site. It tracks a single event with a known schedule.
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, in its discussion of 13 August 2026, put the odds of this El Niño reaching "very strong" — a peak of at least +2.0°C — at greater than 90%, stated as a floor rather than an estimate. It put the odds of October–December 2026 reaching +2.5°C or higher at 69%; the warmest October–December in the entire ONI record is 2015's +2.45°C, so that is the record line.
Separately, El Niño conditions carry 97% odds of persisting into early spring 2027. That one is CPC's figure from the 9 July 2026 discussion, not the August one: CPC did not restate persistence in August, so the number is carried forward rather than refreshed. An earlier version of this page attributed it to the August discussion. It is the same 97%, but a media kit that gets a source wrong is worth less than one that gets a number wrong, so it is corrected here rather than quietly.
Attention to El Niño follows the event, and the October–December peak season now starts in about three weeks — not four, as this page said a week ago, and not the four months it said in August.
What you can sponsor
The weekly briefing. One email every Friday while the event runs, covering the index moves that mattered and what changed in the official forecasts. One sponsor slot per issue, placed after the data section, written as plain text rather than a banner.
The dashboard. A single sponsor line on the live tracker — the page people return to when the numbers move.
The data feed. The ENSO indicator feeds behind the site are documented on our data page, and the status widget is free to embed. White-label versions, custom sizes and raw JSON access are available.
We do not run interstitials, autoplay, or anything that moves the page while someone is reading a number.
Rates and enquiries
Rates depend on placement and duration. Email and tell us what you sell and who you want to reach, and we will tell you honestly whether this audience is a fit.
We will also say when it isn't. A sponsor who gets nothing from this audience is worse for us than an empty slot.