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A Year of Chandler’s Ford Today Posts 2015

December 30, 2015 By Janet Williams 13 Comments

Chandler’s Ford Today received 121,887 views from January to December in 2015.

Visitors numbers were 66,478.

319 posts were published in 2015.

2015 views visitor Chandler's Ford Today

The monthly data is shown here. For example, in December, we had 5,416 visitors, with 10,557 views in total.

Chandler's Ford Today 2015 Months

(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).)

The graph shows the site stays stable throughout the year, with a dip in the summer. (I was away from the country for 6 weeks, and we published scheduled posts – great thanks to Mike and Allison for maintaining the site.)

In 2014, the graph was different:

2014 data Chandler's Ford Today

Chandler’s Ford Today Referrers

The referrers section lists other blogs, web sites, and search engines that link to Chandler’s Ford Today.

Most traffic came from: search engines, Facebook, Twitter, local Chameleon Theatre Company, Wikipedia (via Ahmad Tea), and email.

Referrers also included the publisher Alfie Dog, independent hyperlocal Eastleigh News, and Allison Symes via her websites, Fairytales with Bite and This World and Others.

Chandler's Ford Today referrels

Where are visitors from?

Unsurprisingly, most views came from the UK – 107,647 views in 2015.

There were 5,321 views from the US, followed by Australia with 861 views.

I’m not sure why there is a ‘European Union’ count with 689 views. What does EU mean here? Why is France not included in the EU stats? We had 609 views from France.

2015 Chandler's Ford Today country

The most popular search engine terms in 2015

The most popular search engine terms are all about Streetlife. Streetlife is a rather popular local community networking site, and I wrote a positive review in June 2014.

Search terms Chandler's Ford Today 2015

Occasionally we get some interesting search terms, such as ‘Chandler’s Ford Southampton wife swapping’ in December.

Wife swapping search term

Clicks

This stat counts the number of times our readers have clicked on external links that appear on Chandler’s Ford Today.

In 2015, we sent a lot of traffic to Streetlife, Thornden Hall, Cats and Kittens rescue of Chandler’s Ford, Hiltingbury Community Centre (The Hilt), Xelabus, and all political parties.

Not a surprise as we reported Winchester 2015 General Election (with result and video clips).

Chandler's Ford Today 2015 clicks outbound

The most read posts and pages in 2015:

If we ignore the static pages (such as Home, Archives, Map, Groups), the most read posts were information-based:

  • Why Joining Streetlife is Good for You
  • 999, 111, 101, 112? Emergency Numbers You Must Know
  • Fryern Arcade WH Smith Local and Post Office Open
  • Fryern Arcade Post Office: Open 7 Days a Week?
  • Montgomery of Alamein School in Winchester: Astonishing Historical Pictures Revealed
  • New – Tropic Exotics in Eastleigh Town Centre

(Note: A view is only counted for a post or page when the permalink URL is visited, or the full post is viewed. On the other hand, if a visitor reads a post titled “Hello World” while viewing the home page of the blog, the view will not be counted towards the post, only towards total views.)

Chandler's Ford Today posts and pages 2015 Chandler's Ford Today posts and pages 2015 part 2

Comments

Active commenters in 2015 are me (Janet), Mike, Allison, and Ruby.

Comments by author Chandler's Ford Today 2015

There are also some trivial info. This chart shows the time of day and day of the week this site gets the most views. Tuesday at 9pm. Why? I have absolutely no idea.

Most popular day and hours Chandler's Ford Today

Who writes blog posts on Chandler’s Ford Today?

We have published 909 posts since March 2013, with a total of 72 contributors. The following contributors have written very strong articles to inform and entertain.

  1. Janet Williams (455 posts)
  2. Mike Sedgwick (94 posts)
  3. SO53 News (65 posts)
  4. Allison Symes (39 posts)
  5. Chippy Minton (36 posts)
  6. epicduda (34 posts)
  7. Roger Clark (14 posts)
  8. Ray Fishman (13 posts)
  9. Cecily Casey (10 posts)
  10. Hazel Bateman (10 posts)
  11. Martin Napier (9 posts)
  12. Doug Clews (8 posts)

You can read about A Year of Chandler’s Ford Today in 2014.

Finally, Akismet has protected the site from 14,901 malicious login attempts, and 652,564 spam comments.

Congratulations to everyone

Congratulations to everyone. My heartfelt thanks to all our writers / authors / contributors for your useful, humorous, and brilliant content.

Thank you all who have visited the site and left your comments. You have helped the conversations going.

Thank you to all our readers. Thank you for sending encouraging messages throughout the year.

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Comments

  1. Allison Symes says

    December 31, 2015 at 1:16 am

    Great work here, Janet. Very useful breakdown. Time to get the old pen/PC out for CFT again then!

    Reply
    • Janet Williams says

      December 31, 2015 at 3:28 pm

      Get the new pen out from Australia from me!

      Also, do you blog on your writing software? Do you use Scrivener? If so, how is it? I’ve been thinking of getting one. Let me know the software you use. Thanks.

      Reply
  2. Mike Sedgwick says

    December 31, 2015 at 1:55 am

    A big ‘THANK YOU’ Janet for doing this for the community. You deserve a medal.
    What are we going to be writing about next year? Floods, Foods, Famine, Forests and Friendships? And that is only starting in the middle of the alphabet.

    Reply
  3. Sarah Guilder says

    December 31, 2015 at 8:35 am

    Janet
    Thanks for giving up so much of your time to inform of us all this local information .
    It’s always interesting and great to read.
    Keep up the good work and a Happy New Year to you and your family
    Season Greetings
    Sarah & all at Bay Leaves Larder

    Reply
  4. Pat Johnson says

    December 31, 2015 at 11:41 am

    Well done ! It’s nice to know what’s happening locally. Send me a private e-mail with your address so that I can make a donation. Thank you. Pat.

    Reply
    • Janet Williams says

      January 6, 2016 at 10:16 pm

      Thank you Pat for your kind donation. Your cheque arrived yesterday.

      All the best,

      Janet

      Reply
  5. Richard Hardie says

    December 31, 2015 at 2:28 pm

    An excellent website magazine…. excellently run!
    Strange that Tuesday at 9.00pm is is CFT gets its most hits! I wonder what we’re all doing, or rather NOT doing!

    Reply
  6. Richard Hardie says

    December 31, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    How starnge. I’ve tried to post a comment and it says it’s a duplicate and can’t be posted. It’s definitely not!

    Reply
    • Janet Williams says

      December 31, 2015 at 3:14 pm

      Hi Richard,

      If it is the same comment as in this previous one, then WordPress will ignore it. Could you enter your comment again if it is a new one? Thanks.

      Reply
  7. Richard Hardie says

    December 31, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    Hi,
    An excellent online magazine with far more than just local interest. Interesting about Tuesday at 9.00pm being peak viewing! I wonder what we’re doing at that time the rest of the week?
    All the best for the New Year to everyone.
    Richard

    Reply
  8. Janet Williams says

    December 31, 2015 at 3:38 pm

    I’ve just checked WordPress forums, and found an answer about a country called “European Union” in my stats.

    WordPress European Union stats explained

    WordPress explained that “This just means that our geolocation service believes the user is in the European Union, but they can’t pinpoint exactly what country. Not trying to intentionally hide any countries on your stats page!”

    Reply
  9. Martin Napier says

    January 2, 2016 at 10:52 pm

    Thank you Janet, for all your efforts in making this such an interesting site.

    It is a pleasure to contribute, allbeit in a very small way.

    Reply
    • Janet Williams says

      January 2, 2016 at 10:56 pm

      Martin,

      You’ve contributed in a BIG way, and you’ve shared your stories to the wider community. We’re looking forward to more of your stories in the new year.

      It’s amazing how we chatted over a cup of tea one morning at Dovetail Centre and now you’re one of our top authors! Thank you.

      All the best to you.

      Reply

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