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UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions Visit Plans

Belinda and Mike - follow our tourist travels in the UK

Touring, leisure and holiday plans

2013 Plans

We're off to Kent for our cottage holiday this year and have booked a cottage in this area affectionately called 'The Garden of England'.  We choose Kent really because, despite living only a few counties away, we've rather neglected this part of the UK.  We still have Bletchley Park on our shortlist, another London visit and more ideas around the home counties, so... keep watching!
15-03-13

Previous Year

StonehengeIn 2012 we enjoyed a self-catering cottage holiday in Wiltshire during June and toured Salisbury and Stonehenge amongst others - and ventured into the New Forest too.

Britain at War & Churchill War Rooms visitAnd in what we expect to be a resumption of our London trips we did a war themed visit to the Britain at War and Churchill War Rooms attractions.

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Site Usage

2012 report...
So another year over and time once again to take a look at how our site performed during 2012.  First up, it's reassuring to see another increase in site visitors generating some 312,000 page views over the year (busiest day was 3rd June), compared to around 290,000 in 2011.  Most visited pages in descending order were the Talkie-Walkie radios review (that surprised us) followed by our home page then images index page.  Of the attraction pages, the theme parks and military related ones again proved the most popular; these also being pretty 'sticky' with visitors generally spending longer here than other attraction pages.

Visitors from the UK were by far and away the most prolific followed by the US, India then Australia, with the Netherlands the top European country to access the site.  Of web browsers used; IE, then Chrome, Firefox and Safari showed the advances made by Chrome over 2011, back then Firefox was second to IE.  But Firefox still loaded pages the fastest of them all.  The largest change has been in mobile access, now 12 percent visit from a mobile device with the top devices being - yes, you've guessed it - those iPads and iPhones.  But Android powered devices are gaining very rapidly, maybe when we look at our 2013 stats in a year's time we could well see them overtake Apple.

We were surprised to find that so little use is made of our internal site search facility, perhaps it's because the search box is only on selected primary pages or maybe our site's so easy to navigate (we like to think so!) users find their way around anyway.  And finally, while we're talking about searching, of the 75 percent of visitors that land on our site after using a search engine, what do you think is the top searched for term?  Erm, yes, once again it's 'roman orgy' - we really must remove that wording from our sand sculptures page!

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 smartphone, Android apps, two way radios, digital camera, camcorder, Sat Nav and talkie walkie reviews.