Website traffic
Website traffic or hits vary throughout the year. We receive most hits in the summer months and the least around Christmas time. Unique visitors are individual website users who view the website each month. Page views shows the number of web pages viewed each month. Figures from one year to the next can also vary, depending on particular events, for example during the covid-19 pandemic when businesses were apply for grants page views increased. We use Google Analytics to measure website traffic.
Website visitor and web page view figures
| Month | Unique Visitors | Page Views |
|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | 40,644 | 165,401 |
| February 2023 | 32,555 | 133,777 |
| January 2023 | 37,340 | 149,434 |
| December 2022 | 37,731 | 132,026 |
| November 2022 | 37,196 | 144,442 |
| October 2022 | 35,197 | 129,574 |
| September 2022 | 35,867 | 137,628 |
| August 2022 | 38,297 | 139,263 |
| July 2022 | 36,046 | 138,162 |
| June 2022 | 31,767 | 142,525 |
| May 2022 | 25,326 | 134,831 |
| April 2022 | 18,086 | 105,773 |
| March 2022 | 16,826 | 104,501 |
Trend of visitors' figures
The figures for website visitors between November 2021 and May 2022 do not a represent the exact number of visitors. After changes to the way the cookie control works in May 2022 figures show a more accurate account of website visitors. Although, the number of visitors who choose to reject cookies are not known.
Percentage change in figures from this time last year:
- Unique visitors 141.6%
- Page views 58.3%
How we measure our website traffic
We use Google Analytics to measure our website traffic. We feel that this more accurately reflects visits from humans, rather than robots or search engine crawlers, that are included in data from server logs.