Posts Tagged ‘ Postal Area ’

Colchester top city to complete 2011 Census online

Tweet As the Government took stock of the national financial health in last week’s Budget, it was interesting to see how people reacted to the first ever UK Census that was available to complete online. The official date for completing the 2011 Census was yesterday on 27 March 2011. Perhaps unsurprisingly this also corresponded with [...][ READ MORE ]

How the Budget could affect new business start ups

Tweet Tomorrow Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his first March Budget to outline the government’s spending plans for the next financial year. A lot of the focus of the Budget is likely to be around fuel duty and interest rates, but Prime Minister David Cameron has also promised that the Budget will: “tear down the [...][ READ MORE ]

Election traffic: Tories gain at Lib Dems’ expense, but it remains close online

Tweet The general election is just two days away, and it remains close. The chart below illustrates the weekly market share of visits to the three main political parties’ homepages, with the Conservative regaining the top spot. The Liberal Democrats have fallen into third place, but it remains extremely close – especially when you consider [...][ READ MORE ]

Where in the UK are financial aggregator websites most popular?

Tweet Another guest blog from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. In the table below we can see where in the UK financial aggregators are most used. The representation shows the areas which over-index compared to the UK population. In this case we can see that residents of Sunderland are most over-represented in visits [...][ READ MORE ]

UK Internet Map (as featured on the BBC’s Virtual Revolution)

Tweet If you managed to catch the first episode of the BBC’s excellent Internet documentary, Virtual Revolution, on Saturday night you may have noticed occasional flashes of “Source: Experian Hitwise” at the bottom of your screen. In amongst interviews with such luminaries as Tim Berners Lee, Jimmy Wales and Bill Gates, the Beeb built a [...][ READ MORE ]

Online Christmas shopping: top towns

Tweet The last four weeks have been the busiest of the year for online retailers, and this presents a good opportunity showcase our new UK Postal Areas data. This allows us to segment website and category visits by UK Postal Area (of which there are 121 in the UK, signified by the letter at the [...][ READ MORE ]

Joe to win X Factor – X Factor predictions update

Tweet Another guest post from Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour updating our data from last weeks X Factor predictions Looking at the data from the week ending 5th December, after the Final 4 live show we can see that Joe McElderry has continued as the most searched for contestant with a 6% increase [...][ READ MORE ]

Who will win The X Factor 2009?

Tweet In this guest post, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour uses our data to try and predict who will win this year’s X Factor… We have a number of Hitwise tools and data sets that we can use to track this year’s X Factor contestants’ popularity online – and name Experian Hitwise UK’s [...][ READ MORE ]

Property websites experience first increase in UK traffic for over two years

Tweet UK Internet visits to property websites increased by 4.8% between October 2008 and October 2009, the first annual increase in UK Internet traffic to the sector for over two years. The online property market was one of the first areas to suffer as a result of the credit crunch back in autumn 2007 and, [...][ READ MORE ]