Posts Tagged ‘ Blogs ’

iPhone 5 rumours impact search

Tweet Just when we think we’ve managed to catch up to everyone else and have bought the newest piece of equipment the i-world has to offer, Apple goes and does it again: they release another, newer, better version of the latest i-product. Rumour has it that this week, it’s the much anticipated and some might [...][ READ MORE ]

2010 Online: the year in review

Tweet I can scarcely believe that a whole year has passed since I was sitting here writing the 2009 review, but 12 months to the day here we are, and it’s been another fascinating year in the digital world. Once again I have cherry picked the best blog posts from the year which have either [...][ READ MORE ]

Budget 2010: the online response

Tweet As expected, yesterday’s budget, presented by the Chancellor, George Osborne, gained a huge amount of press coverage. Given the wide range of changes introduced, it is not a surprise to see that many people went online to research both the key points and finer details. Yesterday (22/06/10) 1 in every 179 UK searches was [...][ READ MORE ]

Political blogs in the run up to the election

Tweet In yesterday’s post about the surge in online voter registration traffic, I mentioned the demographics of visitors to websites within our Politics category. That is a broad grouping that includes part homepages, blogs, government sites and overseas politics pages such as the Huffington Post. In order to understand popularity of British political sites I’ve [...][ READ MORE ]

2010 Budget: the online response

Tweet Yesterday Alistair Darling unveiled the final Budget before the election and, as you would expect, it has come under significant scrutiny from the media, the City and voters themselves. For many people the Internet was the first place they went to find out the details, and the chart below illustrates the increases in traffic [...][ READ MORE ]

2009 online: the year in review

Tweet The end of the year presents and excellent opportunity for reflection, and also for lists. Combining the two, I’ve decided to reflect on the last year of online activity in the UK by providing a list of our most popular and commented on blogs over the last 12 months. January Our analysis of the [...][ READ MORE ]

Content driven websites receive 73% more traffic than transactional ones

Tweet The chart on this slide illustrates the percentage of all UK Internet visits accounted for by the largest and most significant online categories – and how this situation has changed over the last three years. As you can see, there are a number of categories that have significantly increased their share of visits – [...][ READ MORE ]

Michael Jackson, Twitter and TMZ

Tweet Following the tragic death of Michael Jackson last night, UK Internet visits to his homepage increased 17 fold. Yesterday www.michaeljackson.com was the 9th most visited Music website in the UK, and the highest ranked artist homepage. TMZ, the website that originally broke the story, picked up 1 in every 1,100 UK Internet visits yesterday, [...][ READ MORE ]

Iran searches and Twitter

Tweet Given the current political situation in the country, we were expecting to see a spike in searches for ‘iran’ last week. As the chart below illustrates, there were more searches for Iran during the week ending 20/06/09 than for Iraq, Dubai or Israel (generally the most searched for countries in the Middle East) at [...][ READ MORE ]

Top 100 student websites in the UK

Tweet Yesterday I received a call from Sridhar Venkatapuram of the London Business School asking me about the online behaviour of students in the UK. I mentioned on Twitter that I was pulling a list of the 100 most popular websites amongst UK students, and received a number of requests to publish the list. Well, [...][ READ MORE ]