In the past week we’ve been host to over 1,000 unique visitors per day, spending an average of 1 minute 37 seconds on the website. If you subtract the people who find us from Google by searching for naughty things (then leave the site immediately after not finding what they’re looking for) who drag down the average, then those figures are really quite impressive!

So how do people find us?
The majority of our traffic comes from search engines (52%), mostly from users who are too lazy to type durham21.co.uk into their browser and rely upon Google to redirect them. Oh, and we can see what you search for if you access us via Google. Some of the search keywords are quite revealing: "how to be cheap", "naked people", "rah fashion" and "oap porn" just to name a few. Google stalking our editors and writers is also quite common.

Next comes referring sites (35%), which includes websites which link to durham21 such as facebook and duo. The remainder is direct traffic, from users visiting the website directly.

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Alex, webmaster and news editor, durham21