Starting today, and on the first Tuesday of each following month, I will be sharing how well the Event Planner News website is doing. Each report will list the previous months performance, with information on website statistics, social media follower counts and top 10 discoveries.
The second quarter has started really well, with April seeing a huge increase in page views. There’s also been an increase in followers on Twitter too.
In April I published a big list of event industry podcasts and reiterated my commitment on being an independent source of news and to be advert free. This is something you can help me with by becoming a sponsor or by making a donation.
In this article...
Popular Posts – April
In April we discovered 2,313 posts, here are the top 10…
| 1 | How to Write a Press Release for an Event | EventsCase |
| 2 | Top 15 Contactless Event Technologies | Expo Logic |
| 3 | VegfestUK London returns to Olympia in Autumn after three year hiatus | Exhibition News |
| 4 | Hyatt Centric Brand Expands to El Salvador | Hospitality Net Industry News |
| 5 | STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 2 April | Hospitality Net Industry News |
| 6 | How to Plan a Great Event that Really Works | EventsCase |
| 7 | Swire Hotels Teams Up With Agilysys to Provide Smarter, Faster, Greener Guest Experiences | Hospitality Net Industry News |
| 8 | B2B companies and customer journey analytics: Show me the money! | Management Events |
| 9 | Guest Service Heroes: Do the Incredibles Have it Right? | Hospitality Net Industry News |
| 10 | How to secure hotel business communications against data breaches? | Hospitality Net Industry News |
Website statistics & social media
I currently use Google Analytics to analyse information on visitor behaviour, I can see where visitors come from. This helps me to improve the site.
In the last few months, there has been a big increase in visitors from Sweden and Norway!
Site performance
| Users | 4,957 |
| Sessions | 5,682 |
| Page views | 9,201 |
Top visitor locations
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- 🇺🇸 U.S.A.
- 🇳🇵 Nepal
- 🇬🇧 U.K.
Social media
The Event Planner News database
The site based on a database of event industry blog posts, which currently has a total of 49,941 entries. Each one contains the URL of a post that has been discovered.
Event industry podcasts are also being tracked and as it’s a fairly recent feature, there are currently 498 entries.
Acknowledgments & gratitiude
Big thanks to Keith Johnston for his continued encouragement and wise words. Thanks also to the following for their tweets and retweets…