It has been an excellent first
year for the Brierley Village web site since its re launch on April 1st 2005. A total of
40,169
visits have been made to the site with
154,668
pages being visited from April 1st 2005
to March 31 2006.
While visiting the
site, 105
people stayed on for over 1
hour in one session, while
104 stayed on the site
45
- 60 minutes in one session. In
37
visits over
100
pages were viewed in the same session and between
51 and
100
pages were viewed
118
times in one session.
The most popular pages
visited where: Recent email 2005/06, The
memories of John Steele, The History of Brierley Hall, People search,
Where R U Now which were closely followed by statistics,
search this web site and more recently
Ask Richard. The latter three being fairly new to the web
site. It will be interesting to see how these fair after a full year.
The most popular Where R U Now page was
The Hartley family closely
followed by the Tibble's. The
most popular photograph visited was of the Steele
family. The most popular news cutting was Notorious Highwayman,
84%
of the traffic through the search engines was sent by
Google with Yahoo 7%, AOL 5%
and MSN 4%. The most popular phrases
typed in to find the site were, Brierley,
Brierley Village, Burntwood Hall, Brierley Hall, Nite Owl and Brierley
Hall.
The top 25 names typed
into the search engines to find the site were : Pat
Hartley, Alan Sheard, Brian Bower, Alex Dyson, Doreen Hobson, Joanne
Warby, Ernest Blenkinsop, Stephen Mangham, Needham family, Hartley
family, Gary, Keith Grimes, Sean Roper, Gordon Steele, Jill Stringer,
Baxendales, Oates, Elaine Armstrong, Steele family, Tibble, Ray Dyson,
Julie Armitage, Les Parry, Nigel Crossland and Ryan Whelan.
Countries that have
visited the web site are : Great Britain,
Canada, Australia, China, Germany, France, Japan, Sweden, Poland,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, Italy, United Arab Emirates,
Czech Republic, Belgium, Israel, India, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Uruguay,
Ireland, Denmark, Taiwan, Lithuania, Senegal, Romania, Singapore,
Indonesia, Philippines, Portugal, Slovenia, Turkey, Hungary,
Malaysia, South Korea, Nigeria, Republic of Cote d'I, Cyprus,
Sudan, Panama, South Africa, Austria, Pakistan, Thailand, Finland,
Kuwait, Chile, Greece, Romania, Luxembourg, Colombia, Switzerland,
Finland, Turkey, Latvia, Panama, Egypt, Qatar, Hong Kong, Kenya, Philippines,
Svalbard and Jan May, Morocco, Gibraltar, Russia, Porto Rico, USA
including: California, Virginia, Washington, Missouri, Colorado, Texas,
Georgia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Arizona, New York,
Florida, District of Columbia, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, North
Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, Connecticut, Alabama, Utah,
Iowa, Arkansas, Maryland, Oklahoma, Oregon, Indiana, New
Caledonia,
Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal,
Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi and Kansas.
Thank you all for your
support and lets hope we can make next years web site even better.
Please feel free to send in any ideas.
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