Posts Tagged ‘ Education ’

Mother’s Day: Woodlands Junior School strikes again

Tweet A couple of years ago we highlighted the extraordinary case of Woodlands Junior School, the best optimised school website in the UK. It appears high up on the Google SERP for popular seasonal terms such as ‘mothers day’, ‘pancake day’, ‘easter’ and ‘lent’. Back in 2008 Woodlands Junior School was the biggest recipient of [...][ READ MORE ]

Local Internet data: Liverpool example

Tweet Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the Digital Editors Network forum, an event organized by Francois Nel from the Journalism Leaders Program at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). One of the topics that came up during the session was the importance of local Internet usage and search data. And not [...][ READ MORE ]

Revision searches and BBC Bitesize

Tweet One of the fastest moving websites last week was BBC Schools, which experienced a 40% increase in traffic to become the 106th most visited website in the UK. However, as the chart below illustrates, last week’s spike wasn’t the first time traffic to site has increased this year. In fact, traffic to BBC Schools [...][ 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 ]

Apprenticeships and The Apprentice

Tweet UK Internet visits to the homepage of The Apprentice, the BBC TV show starring Sir Alan Sugar, have shot up over the last week. Some of this traffic is a result of anticipation for the forthcoming fifth series, but most of the visitors to the site are looking for information about this the celebrity [...][ READ MORE ]

Wikipedia and its imitators

Tweet Wikipedia is now the 14th most visited websites in the UK and the 5th largest recipient of traffic from search engines. The social encyclopedia’s success, combined with the popularity of wikis in general, has led an explosion in the number of websites using either the ‘wiki’ or ‘pedia’ approach to a range of topics. [...][ READ MORE ]

Large Hadron Collider fever online!

Tweet I’m writing this at 10:30am, so it seems like Earth probably hasn’t been sucked into a black hole (at least not yet). The ‘big bang’ experiment, which aims to recreate in miniature the creation of the Universe, has successfully started in Switzerland, generating a huge amount of excitement amongst both physicists and normal people. [...][ READ MORE ]

Fast moving search terms: Strictly Come Dancing, Pierrepoint, Most Haunted

Tweet The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. strictly come dancing 2. us open 3. bournemouth air show 4. www.bebo.co.uk 5. most haunted live 6. albert pierrepoint 7. most haunted 8. you tube.com 9. euromillions 10. hurricane gustav Last week the BBC announced the names of the 16 contestants [...][ READ MORE ]

Fast moving search terms: Olympics, celebrities and exams

Tweet No prizes for guessing what event dominated the fast moving search term list in the UK last week. Here’s the top 10. 1. beijing 2008 olympic games 2. olympics 3. craig jones 4. morgan freeman 5. olympics 2008 6. bernie mac 7. beijing olympics 8. sqa 9. john lewis online 10. katy perry As [...][ READ MORE ]

Top 5 web 2.0 sites account for 1 in every 15 UK Internet visits

Tweet We issued a press release today containing our latest social network market share data. Facebook continues to grow its market share in the UK and reached a new high of 45% in June. However, that growth has been at the expense of Bebo and MySpace, which have both lost share in the UK over [...][ READ MORE ]