Posts Tagged ‘ weather ’

UK Internet visits to skiing and snowboarding websites up 18.5% year on year

Tweet The recent heavy snow and cold weather may have caused travel chaos in some parts of the UK, but it clearly has also served to remind people of the pleasures of winter sports. For the week ending 9th January 2010, UK Internet visits to Snow Sports websites were up 18.5% on the same week [...][ READ MORE ]

Snow causes traffic to Weather and Transport websites to reach all time high

Tweet UK Internet visits to both Transport and Weather websites reached an all time high last week as British people flocked online to keep up to date with the latest snow developments. For the week ending January 9th 2010, Weather websites accounted for 1.5% of all UK Internet visits, three times more than the same [...][ READ MORE ]

Searches for climate change and energy efficiency (Blog Action Day)

Tweet Today is Blog Action Day and, as with last year, Alan Long has beaten me to it with an excellent post on this year’s topic, climate change. I’m taking a similar approach, looking at climate changes related searches in the UK. In order to do this I revived a couple of search term portfolios [...][ READ MORE ]

Initial Bing stats

Tweet Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, was announced by Steve Balmer on May 28 and officially launched on June 3. I’ve held off putting up our initial UK statistics until now for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I couldn’t think of a funny – yet appropriate – headline containing the phrase ‘Bada Bing‘. As you [...][ READ MORE ]

Celeb and entertainment searches dominate Google News

Tweet Last week we revealed that Twitter had overtaken Google News in the UK. However, although everyone’s favourite micro-blogging service receives more UK Internet visits, Google News remains the greater source of traffic for News and Media websites. As the chart below illustrates, in February Google News UK sent five times more traffic to News [...][ READ MORE ]

Fair weather searches

Tweet Whenever the sun comes out, us Brits flock to parks, beaches and al fresco restaurants to make the most of that most precious of commodities (in the UK at least): sunshine. As you might expect, our online behaviour also changes with the weather. UK Internet traffic to weather websites always shoots up during bad [...][ READ MORE ]

Top 10 websites of 2008

Tweet We published the results of the Hitwise UK Online Performance Awards today. These list the 10 most visited websites in the UK during 2008 for over 60 industry categories. You can see the full list on the awards microsite, but here I thought I’d highlight the top sites in three categories that have experienced [...][ READ MORE ]

Snow and football transfers

Tweet Yesterday was the busiest ever day for weather websites in the UK. As the chart below illustrates, websites in our Weather category picked up 1.6% of all UK Internet visits, equivalent to 1 in every 63. And once people discovered that it was snowing outside, the next task was to find a good excuse [...][ READ MORE ]

DIY and gardening content online

Tweet Last month we showed how traffic to House and Garden retail websites has been increasing, despite – or, perhaps more accurately, because of – the credit crunch. Both DIY and furniture retailers are benefitting from this boom, but what about the content sites serving the expanding home improvement market? In order to understand how [...][ READ MORE ]

Fast moving search terms: Google Chrome, cautious investors, football and flooding

Tweet The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. google chrome 2. man city 3. bestival 4. environment agency 5. chrome 6. manchester city 7. burghley horse trials 8. nsandi 9. ns&i 10. setanta sports The appearance of the two Google Chrome related terms in the top 5 is not [...][ READ MORE ]