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Celebrating 30 Years of Virtual Swanage: A Look Back at the Early Web In 2026, Virtual Swanage turns 30 years old, which feels somewhat unbelievable when you consider how different the internet looke

We have seen a steady increase in mobile users visiting the Virtual Swanage website and decline in desktop users over the past few years. In the past we designed the website for a desktop first layou

Since the earliest days of the Virtual Swanage website back in 1996 we have shared our favourite cycling and walking routes online. We are pleased to announce some exciting updates to the cycling and

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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