14,000 Visitors!
15th February 2008
Web surfers are viewing a city charity’s website more than 14,000 times a month,
new statistics have revealed.
Dream-A-Way’s website had 14,479 hits last month, which is the total number of times that various pages on the site have been visited.
This compares to 9,000 hits the month before — an increase of more than 5,000 times that the site has been viewed.
The charity provides holidays for seriously ill or disabled people of all ages from across the southwest,
ranging from trips to Disneyland Paris to fishing expeditions in Devon and breaks at Dream-A-Way’s specially adapted caravans at the Haven Holidays site in Sandy Bay, near Exmouth.
Webmaster Steve Beer, a member of the charity’s committee said: “January has been the site’s busiest month yet.
It’s a dramatic increase even compared to the month before, when we had an incredible figure of 9,000 hits.”
He said this success is partly due to the new features which are being added to the website every month, making it more accessible and interesting.
He added coverage in the Express and Echo has boosted visits to the website.
It has also been helped by the charity’s successful fundraising events in recent weeks including the sponsored slim, whose participants include charity patron Sir John Evans, former chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police.
“The most viewed photograph of a charity committee member in the last month has been Gill Freeman, with a total of 121 hits!,” he added.
Story courtesy of the Express & Echo