On 3 Feb 2009 at 16:10, Neil Arlidge wrote:
> Martin Clark wrote:
> > I'm not complaining, but Pennine Waterways seems to have become
> > unexpectedly popular all of a sudden!
> >
> > According to my site stats, there were 1351 unique visitors to the
> > site yesterday - twice the average number. I thought that maybe,
> > because of the snow, lots of people had spent the day at home surfing
> > the net, but then I see that there have been over 750 visits so far
> > today!
> >
> > I wondered whether some high profile website like the BBC had linked
> > to a page, but examining the list of recent referrals, most visitors
> > are, as usual, arriving from Google. There appears to be a slight
> > increase in visitors arriving from StumbleUpon but I can see no
> > explanation for this sudden rise in visitor numbers! There was a
> > smaller spike on 12th January - 944 visitors, although there were
> > more total page views than yesterday.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what is happening?
>
> A lot of snow bound people (down south) dreaming of the Beautiful North?
Poor misguided fools.
It's still grim oop north!
:-))
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David Kitching
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