A Quick Look at The  Web Statistics
Over Last 6 months
July to December 2006

The number of visits to the website has steadily increased over the last 6 months (see bar chart below) from 395 visits during July to 1116 in Dec. Also the number of pages downloaded has risen from 1994 to 4263 per  month. This is good news as visits to the site  had been languishing and we were thinking of winding it up, but before doing so  decided to freshen it up and see what happened. We  looked for more engagement from the village by way of materiel, ideas and feedback so that the website would be of interest to more people. I’m pleased to say we had that engagement and this makes life much easier for us as our only problem becomes keeping up with the flow of materiel we are receiving. Please do keep it coming and if we are neglecting any section of the community please let us know. I’m well aware we have very little for the younger people in the village, but do they really want anything? We have not heard from them, but if any youngsters do want to get involved, please let us know. We can use your input, ideas and computer skills in widening the appeal of the website.

The website provides us with extensive statistics which you do not see. These statistics are interesting and, amongst other things, we can track the path people take as they browse their way around the site; this is useful  to know as it helps us to refine the webs navigation routing. The email address is not shown so you can’t tell who the person is, but we can track their path through the site. We can also see what pages people visit. There is one person, don’t know who, who comes on almost every day just to get the local weather forecast. On Jan 4th we were visited by someone from Germany (Hamburg), they entered via the Home page, navigated to Serendipity, then to that photo of Hullavington taken in 1946 with all those WWII aircraft packed on top of each other, then on to the village street map before finishing on the village hall. Sehr intressant denke ich. Is this visitor a member of the Luftwaffe? Are Serendipity and the village hall about to be bombed? We get lots of hits from abroad, some are just one offs and webcrawlers, but many make return visits and some have even contacted us, which is most welcome.

In case it is of any interest, we have been visited by people from the following countries:

Thailand, China, Serbia, Belgium, Holland, France, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Ireland, Latvia, Hong Kong, Poland, Canada, Greece, Turkey, Norway