As 2017 comes to a close, we wanted to share some quick stats on the year that has gone by, as we have in 2016, 2015 and 2014. The site has gone through many big changes this year, but not many people will notice, including:

• Migrated to markdown for posts, fixed lots of missing images
• Added recaptcha to catch comment spam
• Changed to sentence case titles (I have been living in the UK that long, it was time to change)

Articles and events

This year we wrote more articles, but published fewer events than in previous years.

Not to mention, we sent out around 41 newsletters

Top 20 Articles

Here are the top 20 articles published and read in 2017. Note how popular the Billy Sheers story is! Thank you Martyn Day!

1. The story of Billy Shears - 6206
2. Trailer for Richmond Park, presented by David Attenborough - 429
3. Planning: Marble Hill - deadline 18 April 2017 - 422
4. The other Twickenham or two - 367
5. Belgian WWI Memorial commemoration in East Twickenham - 347
6. Lidl school … for Lidl people - 346
7. David Attenborough’s Richmond Park - National Nature Reserve released - 343
8. Petition against Marble Hill planning application - 261
9. Works start at Twickenham Station - 258
10. The tunnel of love under Kilmorey Road - 239
11. St Margarets Christmas Fair - 10 December 2017 - 231
12. JMW Turner’s Twickenham villa reaches crucial stage in restoration - 203
13. Mr Lightoller goes to Dunkirk - 199
14. Haliburton - our Canadian cousins - 185
15. The Flying Nightingales - 185
16. When Billy Cotton came to Brentford - 181
17. Wham! Bam! Another scam! - 179
18. Travellers moved from Old Deer Park, land at RFU - 178
19. 40 years of caring for the tidal Crane - 177
20. An unexpected Christmas present - 174

Twitter

We have not been the best twitter user again this year, but all events and articles are posted, so why not follow us?

We also have a Facebook page. Why not follow us

Usage stats

Nearly the same as last year:

How people accessed the site

One trend we have been watching is how many people are now using the site on phones and tablets. This is why we continue making the site work better on smaller screens.

Well, hope you have a great 2017 and if you want to write an article or promote that local event, please get in touch