Blowing our Trumpet – well someone’s got to do it! (image is close up of detail on our Coade Urn)
Early in 2011 Andy Lewis, the Head Gardener, talked to me about the Stourhead NT blog, we had a look at it together and were most impressed. Andy asked me if I could set up one like the Stourhead example and so our Blog began.
I set up the Blog in February 2011 and posted the first few articles. These were ‘Helping out at Swan Barn Farm’ and ‘Making Shingles at Hindhead’.
Those first couple of posts only produced about 60 viewings but slowly the frequency of posts and viewings picked up to where we are today.
So far we’ve produced 264 posts, mostly by Andy, had 23,485 viewings with an average of 64 viewings per day and on the busiest day, 12 August 2012, we had 330 viewings.
We’re hoping to hit 30,000 before the end of 2012.
I think the most interesting feature of the stats for our blog, provided by WordPress, is the breakdown of viewings by country. This is a new feature and it’s amazing to see where our blog viewers are viewing from.
The Stats produce a table more reminiscent of the Olympics medal tables.
Since February 2012 we’ve had viewings from 73 different countries ranging from Afghanistan to Vietnam. Our largest audiences come from the UK, USA and Germany. The map shows the extent of our Global audience.
Our blog world
The most popular post to date is ‘Uppark from the air’ with 402 viewings. The least viewed post is ‘Let’s make some noise’. Have a look and let us know what you think of them. There will be plenty more interesting posts to come so keep looking and if you really like what you see why not sign up to follow our blog by email. You’ll get an email as soon as the posts are published.
Until then…thanks for viewing!
Uppark Garden 