Effect on external factors on traffic to our web sites - an update
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2015-04-26 08:14:56 - Graham Ellis
A post on the "Four in a Bed" Facebook fan club page says that the reader loves the show - but says there are too many repeats for her liking. Well, sure, it's expensive to make new shows ... and I wonder just what is "too many" repeats. I know some of our Facebook friends who took part in the show - "Contribs" are quite often saying "we were on again", yet we've not appeared (in the UK) since - I think - 19th July last year. We have had emails from the Netherlands and Australia, where our show has come up on TV channels which I suspect are not the mainstream ones.
As contributors, we're not notified of when we're going to be repeated - I've no problem with that (though I might have if we were one of the places that brings negative viewer feedback, as happens to some of our friends. But we can (I think) track UK showings based on our web site visitors via Google Analytics which show the following peaks:
9th January 2013 - 1144 (and repeated at the weekend following)
1st September 2013 - 497
20th October 2013 - 638
26th January 2014 - 643
29th June 2014 - 392
19th July 2014 - 272
We're an IT training centre too - with lots of technical resource and to contrast to that graph I have taken a look at our Google Analytics results for the main Well House Consultants site:
It's very intersting to see the saw-tooth shape of that curve - a business site, so very much quieter at weekends than during the week. And note the effect in increased traffic of a site upgrade along the way.
Where there is still a weekly cycle, but it's much less intense - only Saturday being quieter, and then only a little quieter. The remarkable thing about this graph is how stable it is - no matter what happens, ou faithful members just keep on going, with turnover in terms of dropping members being almost exactly replaced by newcomers. Only in Spring last year, where weather and tides destroyd the Dawlish sea wall, flooded the Somerset levels, and precollated up through the cutting at Maidenhead, do you see much change in the pattern.
