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.

   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.