It’s hard to believe we are wrapping up 2016 of Chandler’s Ford Today.
Chandler’s Ford Today received 176,229 views from January to December in 2016.
Visitors numbers: 118, 107.
240 posts were published in 2016.
Since March 2013, we have pubished a total of 1,147 blog posts.
We have a fantastic group of contributors. They are the ones who keep this website going.
(Confused? According to WordPress.com, the two main units of traffic measurement are views and unique visitors. A view is counted when a visitor loads or reloads a page. A visitor is counted when a user or browser is seen for the first time in a given period (day, week, month).)
Chandler’s Ford Today has a total of 221 subscribers, including 14 followers from WordPress.com. When a blog post is published, a notification is sent to all subscribers by email.
The picture below shows the blog posts which have received the highest number of comments (including trackbacks) since 2013.
Comments in posts
Who wrote the comments?
Chandler’s Ford Today interacts with our readers. These are the most active participants in keeping the conversations going: Janet, Allison Symes, Mike Sedgwick, Ruby, Chippy Minton, Richard Hardie, and Gopi Chandroth. Many thanks for your active participation.
Most read blog posts for 2016
There is an anomaly in Chandler’s Ford Today. Chippy Minton’s 999, 111, 101, 112? Emergency Numbers You Must Know (first published in 2013) has been read more than 71,000 times this year.
The most read article written and published 2016 is by Andy Vining, Going Full Circle: the Journey of Hiltonbury Jerseys.
Other most read articles written in 2016 include:
- Beware of Thieves Using “Distraction Technique” in Chandler’s Ford
- Chandler’s Ford from the 1980s – Part 2
- Chandler’s Ford School Days: 1970s – 1980s by Betty Brooking
- News from Eastleigh parkrun
- Chandler’s Ford from the 1980s – Part 1
- The Central Precinct – Old and New
- Review of Aladdin by Chameleon Theatre Company
- Celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the Spitfire
- Review: All My Sons – Excellent Production by Chameleon Theatre Company
- Review: All My Sons – Chameleon Theatre Company 2016
Something trivial
There is also some trivial info. This chart shows the time of day and day of the week this site gets the most views. This year, Most popular day and hour is Monday at 6pm.
Who writes blog posts on Chandler’s Ford Today?
We have published over 1,100 posts since March 2013, with a total of 80 contributors. Here is a list of some of our contributors:
- Janet Williams (506 posts)
- Mike Sedgwick (115 posts)
- SO53 News (102 posts)
- Allison Symes (95 posts)
- Chippy Minton (60 posts)
- epicduda (37 posts)
- Roger Clark (15 posts)
- Martin Napier (15 posts)
- Wellie (14 posts)
- Ray Fishman (13 posts)
- Hazel Bateman (10 posts)
- Doug Clews (9 posts)
You can read about A Year of Chandler’s Ford Today in 2014, and A Year of Chandler’s Ford Today Posts 2015.
Thank you everyone
My heartfelt thanks to all our writers / authors / contributors for your hard work throughout the year.
Thank you all who have visited the site and left your comments.
Thank you to all our readers. Thank you for sending encouraging messages throughout the year.
Thank you for new writers who have joined us this year, including Gopi Chandroth, Nicola Slade, and Roger White. Thank you for making this site stronger and better.
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Janet, you are a genius. Setting up CFT and making a success of it requires unusual skills and persistence. We are all in your debt and long may CFT continue to entertain and inform us.
I’m glad this site continues to flourish. You are one of my early writers and have contributed a great deal to the credibility of this site. Different perspectives make this a very enriching site as we all share stories and experiences from different approaches. Once you’re back from Sri Lanka, I hope you could write more.
Well done, Janet. Fascinating to see the figures too.
Thanks Allison – your weekly contribution and your effort in introducing brilliant local writers to us are worthy of praise. Of course your writing on local cultural affiars (and train!) are great read. Thank you for a fabulous year we have had.
Well done Janet on a very interesting website. Came across it by accident but thoroughly interesting being a “past resident” seeing how things have changed.
Thanks for your time and hard work. Loved our chat a few weeks back; must do it again some time.
Happy New year to all at CFT.
Roger,
Yes lots of people stop by this site by accident, and have since stayed and paid a big part in the growth of this website. You are one of them. Thank you for your stories. Now I go to Station Lane with your stories in mind and my train journey has become so different because of these beautiful stories.
Congratulations Janet for a job well done. Thanks for your efforts and happy New Year to you.
Thanks Gopi for your contribution too. It’s fun getting more people to write and to share, and WordPress enables us to do so. I’m glad to be able to share so many stories by so many of you. We have built a community of trust here.