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1000 Hits from 25 countries and counting…

By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 14th, Oct, 2009

Well as you know my site has been up a while now and after some mathematics and removing every time i log in today i have had 1000 hits on my website from 25 different countries which is above average according to Google… not bad for a 3 month old site.

Thank you to all that have visited and had a look and please come back also feel free to leave your comments under each post you can remain anonymous if you wish just make up an email address.

Heres some interesting facts for you … or maybe not….
when searching Google World Wide for “waynes photos” Ranked 2nd of about 42 million results
when searching Google uk for “waynes photos” Ranked 1st from 400,000 results

The busiest single day was 2nd July with 55 hits
The single most popular post overall has been The London Architecture Poll with 46 visits but only 15 votes :(
The average page view is 2.71 pages per visit, spending 3 minutes 17 seconds viewing those pages.
In reality there are a high number of single page visits staying for 10 seconds or less, but here have been a number of visitors how have stayed and given the site a thorough read through thanks you to Mondays visitor who stayed for 29 minutes reading 12 pages from the Uk. :)

55% of people visiting the site return for another look… :)
33% of visitors arrived from google or other search engines.

Overall there were visits from 25 countries around the globe in order of most hits first here are the stats

  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Italy
  • Romania
  • Ireland
  • Canada
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Denmark
  • South Africa
  • Belgium
  • Poland
  • Slovenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • France
  • Morocco
  • India
  • China
  • Argentina
  • Iran
  • Georgia

    • The 25th Country or region is … Unknown (ip region not set) so it could have come from anywhere

    There are hundreds more stats i could bore you with but i wont, but i will tell you that i can even tell the screen resolution of the pics or handheld devices the website is viewed on and i will be using this in future to maximise the size of the photos i put up.
    shame about the lens flare in this picture

    Sunset at East head, waynes photos

    hope i havent sent you to sleep, come back soon as i have some more images to post this week.

    Wayne

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    Dungeness Lighthouse Panorama

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Friday, 9th, Oct, 2009

    Todays post is an edited image from the archives earlier this year, using a program called Autostitch i have merged together a sequence of images shot from on top of the old lighthouse at dungeness.
    The Old Lighthouse is 151 feet high (46m) and provides stunning views of the surrounding area, while the website claims to be a great family trip i would stress that although going up is nice it’s not some where you would visit unless you were in the area, we added it on to the end of a sounds mirrors trip, some of you maybe aware that i have a bit of a height fobia, i was less than half way up the first flight of stairs when i felt my stomach twirl, the inside of the lighthouse has 4 internal floors so there is plenty of opportunity to rest however the staircases are very open and you can see along way down, the penultimate flight was the worst. Upon arriving at the top there is one final flight which is more like a ladder but enclosed so was easy, at the top you enter into the lens housing which is pretty awesome and there is a tiny doorway about 2 1/2 ft square which you crawl through to get right out on top, now i managed that but when outside my legs refused to work so i couldn’t stand up, i must stress the balcony although perfectly safe is a little rusty, and appears to look like its going to fall off add this to exceptionally high winds 40+ mph (nearly time to change underwear), any how i made it out alive and intend to do it again when its not windy maybe one day i will conquer my fear.

    Panoramic veiw of Dungeness, waynes photos

    From the top you can see the new lighthouse, cafe, nuclear power station and Dungeness Station, the final stop of the famous Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Light Railway re-opened after WWII in 1947 by Hollywood Stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The Railway runs a regular service through from Hythe for most of the year.

    Location.

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    Sound Mirrors Open Day – The Listening Ears at Denge

    By Wayne Humphrey | Published Wednesday, 22nd, Jul, 2009

    Sunday 19th July 2009 the first and hopefully not the last of the Romney Marsh CountrySide Project open days to the “sound mirrors”.
    Prior to World War II and the invention of radar, acoustic mirrors were built as early warning devices around the coasts of Great Britain, with the aim of detecting airborne invasions. The most famous of these devices still stand at Denge on the Dungeness peninsula and at Hythe in Kent. The Dungeness mirrors, known colloquially as the “listening ears”, consist of three large concrete reflectors built in the 1920s–1930s. Their experimental nature can be discerned by the different shapes of each of the three reflectors: one is a long, curved wall about 5 m high by 70 m long, while the other two are dish-shaped constructions approximately 4–5 m in diameter. Microphones placed at the foci of the reflectors enabled a listener to detect the sound of aircraft several kilometres out in the English Channel. This design element is their genius, because in addition to being able to detect range (over 30 km, or 20 statute miles, on a good day), they could also detect direction. Information taken from wikipedia.
    An early start in order to get there on time with the threat of light showers all day from the met office, it was a bit of a gamble, but it paid off.
    I had a great day with my fellow photographers and look forward to a return trip one day, thanks to Simon for the loan of the memory card.(doh!)

    30ft sound mirror, waynes photos 30ft sound mirror, waynes photos 30ft sound mirror, waynes photos

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