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Google Analytics - Understanding Our Visitors Google Analytics allows us to see how people use the site. It gives us insight into which pages are most popular, how visitors find us, and what devices they use. This information helps us improve the website, ensuring it is user-friendly, relevant, and easy to navigate. Most importantly, the data is anonymous, we cannot see who you are, only general
20 August 2025
29th Birthday for Virtual Swanage

Only one more year until the Virtual Swanage website hits the big 30. We celebrate this milestone with other websites also launched in 1996 including Ask Jeeves, Booking.com, Wayback Machine and Yaho

Swanage webcam page updates

We have been working on changes to our Swanage webcam page with a higher quality and wider view from our roof on the southern side of Swanage near the Black Swan pub which looks North-East over Swanag

Virtual Swanage Gets a Speed and SEO Boost

We’ve recently completed a round of major updates to the Virtual Swanage website to improve performance, usability, and search engine optimisation. The backend has been rewritten using ASP.NET Core,

New Odysee video channel

We have launched a second video channel for our webcam videos and other Swanage and Purbeck videos on the video sharing platform odysee You can follow us on odysee at https://odysee.com/@Swanage:0

2024 December Update for Virtual Swanage

The past 12 months have been very busy for us at Virtual Swanage, which is in its 28th year of promoting Swanage and Purbeck online. We have spent many hours working on search engine enhancements to

Improvements and changes to the Events Section

At Virtual Swanage we are always looking into ways to improve the performance and functionality of the website to make the pages faster to load and easier to use for our visitors. The Events and Fest

Year Long Webcam Timelapse

Since July 2023 we have been saving the images from our webcam to create timelapse daily and monthly videos. Now we have enough photos to create a year-long timelapse to see the changing seasons over

2024 Site stats Jan to May

The visitor stats below are taken from server logs between January to the start of May 2024. Date Page Views Visits January 2024 128,181

The Heart of Swanage listings

We are pleased to announce that we have a new section for local shops and businesses located in the “Heart of Swanage” which are a group of smaller shops and businesses which lie in Commercial Road an

2023 to 2024 Site news and stats

2024 marks our 28th year at the Virtual Swanage website and we would like to thank all the businesses and organisations who have supported us in the past 28 years. Today the website has 29 accommodat

November and December updates

Welcome to the following businesses who have added their information to the Purbeck Directory at Virtual Swanage. Swanage RBL - a friendly social club that welcomes its club members and the public si

Website stats update for the past 12 months

Below is a table showing the visitor stats for the Virtual Swanage website for the past 12 months. Since updating the design of the website a few months ago we have seen a noticeable increase in both

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