WEBSITE STATISTICS
 

While this page might, at first glance, appear to be a resource for those who need to get out a bit more, it is contains genuinely useful information for the club's committee in that it provides answers to questions about the website which would otherwise be mere conjecture.

At the time of writing (4 August 2011), the tally on our 'hit counter' was just coming up for 112,750, while the number of visits per month had risen from 1,081 in June 2008 to a peak of over 4,500 in April 2009. Currently, 83% of our visitors are new to the site, as can be seen from the table below:

Period
New Visitors
Return Visitors
Total Visitors
2008 (Jun-Dec only)
10,409 (85%)
1,784 (15%)
12,193
2009
20,314 (86%)
3,357 (14%)
23,671
2010
13,226 (80%)
3,324 (20%)
16,550
1-31 January 2011
1,151 (82%)
261 (18%)
1,412
1-28 February 2011
974 (79%)
252 (21%)
1,226
1-31 March 2011
1,180 (80%)
297 (20%)
1,477
1-30 April 2011
1,514 (83%)
303 (17%)
1,817
1-31 May 2011
1,375 (80%)
341 (20%)
1,716
1-30 June 2011
1,079 (78%)
304 (22%)
1,383
1-31 July 2011
1,522 (84%)
285 (16%)
1,807
1-31 August 2011
1,215 (81%)
290 (19%)
1.505
1-30 September 2011
1,071 (84%)
198 (16%)
1,269
1-31 October 2011
1,290 (80%)
328 (20%)
1,618
1-30 November 2011
1,182 (79%)
311 (21%)
1,493
1-31 December 2011
1,085 (80%)
273 (20%)
1,358
Totals
55,587 (83%)
11,908 (17%)
70,495

Click here to see the search words that visitors used to find the site.

 
Above: Visitors to the website since we started counting them. The pink line shoots up from nothing because the statistics service was installed on 27 November 2007, meaning that less than 4 days were monitored in the first month. Numbers climb dramatically during October 2008 and April 2009 due to the 'Railway Walks' series being broadcast, first on BBC4 (Oct-Nov 2008) and then BBC2 (Mar-Apr 2009). The series gives the club a name check in episode 5. Generally, visitor numbers increase after the introduction of new content, which is hardly surprising, and decline if the site remains static, which is rare but does happen if the Webmaster has a lot of work commitments.