Statistics

I thought I might check some statistics, or “Dam Lies and Statistics” if you have read the book. Here are the top 5 articles from this blog as measured by page views. No 1 on the list is "Current Planning Application Status" closely followed by the first page published, the water tower wood welcome. Now I reckon the introductory page is an outlier in the data set because this will be the page view that most people will get from an initial search to find the blog. Once found, people can go to their article of choice or use a search word to find a particular page. 

Article Title
Ladybirds Galore

Support Statement 1st March

Big Society or Community Spirit

Something Lighthearted But Lovely

May The Best House Win 

Dalhousie Crescent

First Letter of Support

Susan Goes On the Offensive   No 3 - 108 page views

Esk Valley Trust

Sex and £1,000

Current Planning Application Status    No 1  - 134 page views

Biophilia

 Snow Line in the Park

 More Photos

 Photos Galore

Water Tower Appreciation Society

New Planning Application   No 5 - 66 page views

Why Is The River Esk Red?

The Snow

Midlothian Cuts and More Hamlet!

Kevock Garden

Call Kaye Radio Programme

Something Is Rotten In The State Of Denmark

Vogrie and Bridge Building

Jacqueline McDonnell

Friends Of Ironmills Park

Set Square - Scotland on Sunday Article  No 4 - 72 page views

Autumn Colours

Proof That Land Was Advertised For Sale

10 years to plan, 10 months to build

Matin Khan Wins Award

Event to Celebrate 100 years of Ironmills Park

Purchases Today

Water Tower Wood Management Plan

Black and White Photograph

How Come We Bought A Woodland?

Water Tower Wood Welcome  No 2 - 128 page views

So what do the results tell me - that the planning stuff is the most popular along with an interest in the Scotland on Sunday article. The SOS article was the first that I linked to facebook. I guess that might show the power of facebook.

February was the month with the largest number of page views in any single month, reaching a peak of 790 page views from a total so far of 2,650 page views.

February was the month when our latest planning application was submitted and this does seem to be creating a great deal of interest. So much so that one very recent objector wrote about trees rather than the planning application items per se and called for a chat after removing this objection. We had a lovely follow-up chat today about planning issues, eco issues and sustainability as we walked around the woodland. Also today in the Telegraph our beloved Prince Charles is writing about Eco Bling; this being the eco stuff that is not so practical but gets people excited. In his opinion, and I concur, the best Eco thing to do for buildings is to go for the very best in insulation before even thinking about solar panels and ground source heat pumps. Interesting.

So this is a bit of a boring article today but I have something much more interesting next week. I have the photos from the Red Cross Ball and a breakdown of the monies raised from our restaurant and painting donation. Thanks to Arlene Stewart of Radio Forth fame who talked about her 30^th birthday dinner at the restaurant, I think we got a really good result for the Red Cross. Oh and Arlene, if you are reading, we did the Fit or Fuddly app on the I Phone. G got 9/10 – it can’t be right.

From I Google today
62.15% of all statistics are meaningless.

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