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2012 Plans
Nothing definite planned so far - perhaps a return to
the New Forest is on the cards as we only got a few days there in 2007
on a short break and there's far more to see! And we still have
Bletchley Park on our shortlist. We also have a further list of
other contenders around the home counties sometime, so... watch this
space!
04-01-12
Previous Year
 In 2011 we holidayed on the Isle of Wight in June, staying
in a lovely holiday cottage and touring the various attractions and -
dodging the showers - doing a couple of scenic walks.  And we toured another
military related attraction when we visited Duxford IWM in Cambridgeshire in
August. We attempted to resume our London day trips in mid August
but quickly had to abandon when the riots happened the very week we
were going to go!
We have links to related
tourist websites to our visits.
You can email us from here > >
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Site Usage
End of year report...
Now, we hope you like statistics, as we've been doing some serious
number crunching with our Google Analytics (GA) site stats at year end!
Whoo Hoo - out of 290,000 site visitors in 2011 (the
majority of which were unique) we attracted almost half a million page
views, an increase of some 50,000 over 2010. Unsurprisingly for a
UK tourism themed site, visits peaked from April to September.
Our GA clearly reveals many visitors came to our site looking for
specific things, using search terms related to our product reviews and
military related attractions; these were our most popular pages.
These visitors also spent the most time on the pages, but also tended
not to venture to other pages. Our site averages were just under
two pages per visit and spending just over a minute on site.
80% of our visitors were from the UK, then in order; the
US, main European countries, India, Canada and Australia. Of
those, our Indian visitors spent the most amount of time on site.
The most viewed pages were the home page, next with
almost as many views was the images page following which the next most
popular were the sand sculptures, Thorpe Park, walkie talkies,
Cotswolds and Somerset. Google was again the main search engine
used, and among the top search terms that brought us visitors we saw
'roman orgies' landing us 546 visitors; even 'eastbourne beach' was
searched with 213 times!
Of browsers, 42% of visitors were using IE, 25% Firefox
and 20% Chrome; with operating systems 84% using windows, 9% Mac then
Apple mobile systems. Of the increasing number of mobile device
being used, the majority were iPad & iPhone, then HTC Desire.
With screen resolutions we were surprised to see that the old 1024x768
was tops at 17%, 1280x800 15% and the resolution we use ourselves on
our desktop, 1680x1050, was a fair way down at only 5%. We
noticed an increase of mobile device resolutions in the list over the
previous year.
We also looked at our site goals we set-up when we added
GA a few years back, and Mike even dug deep into such things as visitor
paths, No. of visitors with JavaScript enabled, screen colours and
Flash versions - but you've probably had more than enough stats to last
another year!
Website Plans
We have new page plans - a 'rants & raves' page and
a UK touring guide page. We're also looking to split our tourist resources page as it's become
rather bloated. And soon we plan to add a Twitter feed.
We also plan more product
reviews to compliment our two way radios, digital camera, camcorder, Sat Nav and talkie walkie reviews.
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