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We name the most popular websites in Yorkshire - January 2004.

We scoured the Alexa search rankings to find the most popular Yorkshire websites and found a few surprises!

Business has a way of selling itself as more successful as it really is, and the web is an area where success is hard to measure.

The Yorkshire Top Fifty:
The most popular sites in the county based on the January Alexa.com rankings, February 1st 2004

Note: A few good small sites in Yorkshire use the UK2NET servers, or registered their domain with them. All UK2NET sites achieve an identical general server ranking .

(Bracket is 2003 January figure)

1 (1) Halifax Building Society 5,475th rank

2 (3) University of Leeds 8,555.

3 (5). Hallam University 12,003

4 (2) Leeds United FC 12,339

5 (4). University of Sheffield 12,779

6 (6) University of York 30,852

7 (14) Bradford & Bingley 39,168

8 (11) Leeds Metropolitan University 43,703

9. (25) Yorkshire Post 51,853

10 (9) Yorkshire Bank 53,976

11 (12) This Is York (York Evening Press) 57,744

12 (-) Blades United 86,537

13 (7) The Yorkshire Posts Forum 39,524

14 (22) Leeds Council 103,706

15 (10) Huddersfield University 119,905

16 (26/44) Sheffield Star 121,955

17(8) Bradford University 128,155

18 (26) Bradford Telegraph/Argus 153,210

19 (16) Gatecrasher (Sheffield) 155,870

20 (15) Meadowhall Shopping Center 158,167

21 (-) Bradford Bulls 99,635

22 (19) Leeds Today (Evening Post) 153,946

23 (-) Leeds / Bradford Airport 198,563

24 (-) Leeds United Mad 199,903

25 (-) Harrogate Council 236,304

26 (20) Yorkshire Information Centre (Yorkshirenet) 224,277

27 (28) Rotherham Council 227,431

28 (17) Yorkshire Building Society 247,859

29 (34) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 290,362

30 (21) Sheffield City Council 258,108

31 (41) National Railway Museum 261,389

32 (-) Sheffield School of Interior Design 265,679

33 (45) East Riding County Council 270,535

34 (-) Yorkshire Forward 273,154

35 (22) Doncaster Council 276,261

36 (24) Hull City Council 288,337

37 (-) Leedsfans 288,596

38 (40) City of York Council 299,631

39 (-) Yorkshire Births Marriages Deaths 306,578

40 (-) I Know Yorkshire 317,826

41 (40) York Tourism (First Stop York) 332,135

42 (-) National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 360,903

43 (-) York St. John College 365,324

44 (27) Calderdale Council 369,352

45 (35) Barnsley Chronicle 369,357

46 (46) North Yorkshire County Council 387,689

47 (39) Yorkshire Tourist Board 400,627

48 (-) Wakefield College 403,608

49 (-) West Yorkshire Playhouse 411,972

50 (38) York-United-Kingdom (An Independent York Guide) 486,118

Others:

- (33) Daelnet 536,327

Business Link West Yorkshire 536,327

Yorkshire Futures 486,946

Yorkshire Visitor 508, 559

 

Missing Links:

All Football League sites are now under one umbrella (premium.tv) and data is no longer available for individual clubs. Other sites we can't get Yorkshire data on include the BBC, and Genuki.

Check your own site? Alexa link

If you're piggybacking some big org like geocities or Yahoo fugeddabowtit! You just get the main site's rank.

So when there's an even playing field, like Amazon's Alexa web ranking service, it's worthy of investigation. Alexa have a pretty good system that combines page views with users. And the results are quite eye-opening.

A few notable big hitters in the county - like the BBC - fall outside the search, as their Yorkshire pages are part of their national hit rate. And Genuki's Yorkshire section is a big local site too, but again it's impossible to judge.

Universities run all sorts of services and sub-sites from their servers (including student home pages) which explains their rank. The banks and building societies now offer online services that attract hits too.

And the football clubs attract their own audience worldwide. The 2004 phenomenon has been fanzine style footie sites taking over from 'official sites in popularity. Since the Football League made the 'official' ones subscription-only the field is nowwide open for new sites. The most popular we've found so far - Blades United - seems more popular than even the sufc site of old.

The continuing surprise is Yorkshire Posts, an independently run community forum - outperforming most of the well-funded Yorkshire newspapers and big city councils. Quietly a new force has emerged on the Yorkshire scene.

And the relatively poor performance of the Yorkshire Tourism outfit suggests that a few full time webbers need to pull their collective fingers out and get promoting our wonderful county. Getting out-performed by a site prepared by a small computer firm in their spare time (York-United-Kingdom.com) - C'mon!

(Alexa ranks in order of world popularity, where a ranking of 1 is better than 1000.)

 



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We name the most popular websites in Yorkshire - January 2004.

We scoured the Alexa search rankings to find the most popular Yorkshire websites and found a few surprises!

Business has a way of selling itself as more successful as it really is, and the web is an area where success is hard to measure.

The Yorkshire Top Fifty:
The most popular sites in the county based on the January Alexa.com rankings, February 1st 2004

Note: A few good small sites in Yorkshire use the UK2NET servers, or registered their domain with them. All UK2NET sites achieve an identical general server ranking .

(Bracket is 2003 January figure)

1 (1) Halifax Building Society 5,475th rank

2 (3) University of Leeds 8,555.

3 (5). Hallam University 12,003

4 (2) Leeds United FC 12,339

5 (4). University of Sheffield 12,779

6 (6) University of York 30,852

7 (14) Bradford & Bingley 39,168

8 (11) Leeds Metropolitan University 43,703

9. (25) Yorkshire Post 51,853

10 (9) Yorkshire Bank 53,976

11 (12) This Is York (York Evening Press) 57,744

12 (-) Blades United 86,537

13 (7) The Yorkshire Posts Forum 39,524

14 (22) Leeds Council 103,706

15 (10) Huddersfield University 119,905

16 (26/44) Sheffield Star 121,955

17(8) Bradford University 128,155

18 (26) Bradford Telegraph/Argus 153,210

19 (16) Gatecrasher (Sheffield) 155,870

20 (15) Meadowhall Shopping Center 158,167

21 (-) Bradford Bulls 99,635

22 (19) Leeds Today (Evening Post) 153,946

23 (-) Leeds / Bradford Airport 198,563

24 (-) Leeds United Mad 199,903

25 (-) Harrogate Council 236,304

26 (20) Yorkshire Information Centre (Yorkshirenet) 224,277

27 (28) Rotherham Council 227,431

28 (17) Yorkshire Building Society 247,859

29 (34) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 290,362

30 (21) Sheffield City Council 258,108

31 (41) National Railway Museum 261,389

32 (-) Sheffield School of Interior Design 265,679

33 (45) East Riding County Council 270,535

34 (-) Yorkshire Forward 273,154

35 (22) Doncaster Council 276,261

36 (24) Hull City Council 288,337

37 (-) Leedsfans 288,596

38 (40) City of York Council 299,631

39 (-) Yorkshire Births Marriages Deaths 306,578

40 (-) I Know Yorkshire 317,826

41 (40) York Tourism (First Stop York) 332,135

42 (-) National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 360,903

43 (-) York St. John College 365,324

44 (27) Calderdale Council 369,352

45 (35) Barnsley Chronicle 369,357

46 (46) North Yorkshire County Council 387,689

47 (39) Yorkshire Tourist Board 400,627

48 (-) Wakefield College 403,608

49 (-) West Yorkshire Playhouse 411,972

50 (38) York-United-Kingdom (An Independent York Guide) 486,118

Others:

- (33) Daelnet 536,327

Business Link West Yorkshire 536,327

Yorkshire Futures 486,946

Yorkshire Visitor 508, 559

 

Missing Links:

All Football League sites are now under one umbrella (premium.tv) and data is no longer available for individual clubs. Other sites we can't get Yorkshire data on include the BBC, and Genuki.

Check your own site? Alexa link

If you're piggybacking some big org like geocities or Yahoo fugeddabowtit! You just get the main site's rank.

So when there's an even playing field, like Amazon's Alexa web ranking service, it's worthy of investigation. Alexa have a pretty good system that combines page views with users. And the results are quite eye-opening.

A few notable big hitters in the county - like the BBC - fall outside the search, as their Yorkshire pages are part of their national hit rate. And Genuki's Yorkshire section is a big local site too, but again it's impossible to judge.

Universities run all sorts of services and sub-sites from their servers (including student home pages) which explains their rank. The banks and building societies now offer online services that attract hits too.

And the football clubs attract their own audience worldwide. The 2004 phenomenon has been fanzine style footie sites taking over from 'official sites in popularity. Since the Football League made the 'official' ones subscription-only the field is nowwide open for new sites. The most popular we've found so far - Blades United - seems more popular than even the sufc site of old.

The continuing surprise is Yorkshire Posts, an independently run community forum - outperforming most of the well-funded Yorkshire newspapers and big city councils. Quietly a new force has emerged on the Yorkshire scene.

And the relatively poor performance of the Yorkshire Tourism outfit suggests that a few full time webbers need to pull their collective fingers out and get promoting our wonderful county. Getting out-performed by a site prepared by a small computer firm in their spare time (York-United-Kingdom.com) - C'mon!

(Alexa ranks in order of world popularity, where a ranking of 1 is better than 1000.)

 



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We name the most popular websites in Yorkshire - January 2004.

We scoured the Alexa search rankings to find the most popular Yorkshire websites and found a few surprises!

Business has a way of selling itself as more successful as it really is, and the web is an area where success is hard to measure.

The Yorkshire Top Fifty:
The most popular sites in the county based on the January Alexa.com rankings, February 1st 2004

Note: A few good small sites in Yorkshire use the UK2NET servers, or registered their domain with them. All UK2NET sites achieve an identical general server ranking .

(Bracket is 2003 January figure)

1 (1) Halifax Building Society 5,475th rank

2 (3) University of Leeds 8,555.

3 (5). Hallam University 12,003

4 (2) Leeds United FC 12,339

5 (4). University of Sheffield 12,779

6 (6) University of York 30,852

7 (14) Bradford & Bingley 39,168

8 (11) Leeds Metropolitan University 43,703

9. (25) Yorkshire Post 51,853

10 (9) Yorkshire Bank 53,976

11 (12) This Is York (York Evening Press) 57,744

12 (-) Blades United 86,537

13 (7) The Yorkshire Posts Forum 39,524

14 (22) Leeds Council 103,706

15 (10) Huddersfield University 119,905

16 (26/44) Sheffield Star 121,955

17(8) Bradford University 128,155

18 (26) Bradford Telegraph/Argus 153,210

19 (16) Gatecrasher (Sheffield) 155,870

20 (15) Meadowhall Shopping Center 158,167

21 (-) Bradford Bulls 99,635

22 (19) Leeds Today (Evening Post) 153,946

23 (-) Leeds / Bradford Airport 198,563

24 (-) Leeds United Mad 199,903

25 (-) Harrogate Council 236,304

26 (20) Yorkshire Information Centre (Yorkshirenet) 224,277

27 (28) Rotherham Council 227,431

28 (17) Yorkshire Building Society 247,859

29 (34) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 290,362

30 (21) Sheffield City Council 258,108

31 (41) National Railway Museum 261,389

32 (-) Sheffield School of Interior Design 265,679

33 (45) East Riding County Council 270,535

34 (-) Yorkshire Forward 273,154

35 (22) Doncaster Council 276,261

36 (24) Hull City Council 288,337

37 (-) Leedsfans 288,596

38 (40) City of York Council 299,631

39 (-) Yorkshire Births Marriages Deaths 306,578

40 (-) I Know Yorkshire 317,826

41 (40) York Tourism (First Stop York) 332,135

42 (-) National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 360,903

43 (-) York St. John College 365,324

44 (27) Calderdale Council 369,352

45 (35) Barnsley Chronicle 369,357

46 (46) North Yorkshire County Council 387,689

47 (39) Yorkshire Tourist Board 400,627

48 (-) Wakefield College 403,608

49 (-) West Yorkshire Playhouse 411,972

50 (38) York-United-Kingdom (An Independent York Guide) 486,118

Others:

- (33) Daelnet 536,327

Business Link West Yorkshire 536,327

Yorkshire Futures 486,946

Yorkshire Visitor 508, 559

 

Missing Links:

All Football League sites are now under one umbrella (premium.tv) and data is no longer available for individual clubs. Other sites we can't get Yorkshire data on include the BBC, and Genuki.

Check your own site? Alexa link

If you're piggybacking some big org like geocities or Yahoo fugeddabowtit! You just get the main site's rank.

So when there's an even playing field, like Amazon's Alexa web ranking service, it's worthy of investigation. Alexa have a pretty good system that combines page views with users. And the results are quite eye-opening.

A few notable big hitters in the county - like the BBC - fall outside the search, as their Yorkshire pages are part of their national hit rate. And Genuki's Yorkshire section is a big local site too, but again it's impossible to judge.

Universities run all sorts of services and sub-sites from their servers (including student home pages) which explains their rank. The banks and building societies now offer online services that attract hits too.

And the football clubs attract their own audience worldwide. The 2004 phenomenon has been fanzine style footie sites taking over from 'official sites in popularity. Since the Football League made the 'official' ones subscription-only the field is nowwide open for new sites. The most popular we've found so far - Blades United - seems more popular than even the sufc site of old.

The continuing surprise is Yorkshire Posts, an independently run community forum - outperforming most of the well-funded Yorkshire newspapers and big city councils. Quietly a new force has emerged on the Yorkshire scene.

And the relatively poor performance of the Yorkshire Tourism outfit suggests that a few full time webbers need to pull their collective fingers out and get promoting our wonderful county. Getting out-performed by a site prepared by a small computer firm in their spare time (York-United-Kingdom.com) - C'mon!

(Alexa ranks in order of world popularity, where a ranking of 1 is better than 1000.)

 



NORTHERNER
________________

 

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We name the most popular websites in Yorkshire - January 2004.

We scoured the Alexa search rankings to find the most popular Yorkshire websites and found a few surprises!

Business has a way of selling itself as more successful as it really is, and the web is an area where success is hard to measure.

The Yorkshire Top Fifty:
The most popular sites in the county based on the January Alexa.com rankings, February 1st 2004

Note: A few good small sites in Yorkshire use the UK2NET servers, or registered their domain with them. All UK2NET sites achieve an identical general server ranking .

(Bracket is 2003 January figure)

1 (1) Halifax Building Society 5,475th rank

2 (3) University of Leeds 8,555.

3 (5). Hallam University 12,003

4 (2) Leeds United FC 12,339

5 (4). University of Sheffield 12,779

6 (6) University of York 30,852

7 (14) Bradford & Bingley 39,168

8 (11) Leeds Metropolitan University 43,703

9. (25) Yorkshire Post 51,853

10 (9) Yorkshire Bank 53,976

11 (12) This Is York (York Evening Press) 57,744

12 (-) Blades United 86,537

13 (7) The Yorkshire Posts Forum 39,524

14 (22) Leeds Council 103,706

15 (10) Huddersfield University 119,905

16 (26/44) Sheffield Star 121,955

17(8) Bradford University 128,155

18 (26) Bradford Telegraph/Argus 153,210

19 (16) Gatecrasher (Sheffield) 155,870

20 (15) Meadowhall Shopping Center 158,167

21 (-) Bradford Bulls 99,635

22 (19) Leeds Today (Evening Post) 153,946

23 (-) Leeds / Bradford Airport 198,563

24 (-) Leeds United Mad 199,903

25 (-) Harrogate Council 236,304

26 (20) Yorkshire Information Centre (Yorkshirenet) 224,277

27 (28) Rotherham Council 227,431

28 (17) Yorkshire Building Society 247,859

29 (34) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 290,362

30 (21) Sheffield City Council 258,108

31 (41) National Railway Museum 261,389

32 (-) Sheffield School of Interior Design 265,679

33 (45) East Riding County Council 270,535

34 (-) Yorkshire Forward 273,154

35 (22) Doncaster Council 276,261

36 (24) Hull City Council 288,337

37 (-) Leedsfans 288,596

38 (40) City of York Council 299,631

39 (-) Yorkshire Births Marriages Deaths 306,578

40 (-) I Know Yorkshire 317,826

41 (40) York Tourism (First Stop York) 332,135

42 (-) National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 360,903

43 (-) York St. John College 365,324

44 (27) Calderdale Council 369,352

45 (35) Barnsley Chronicle 369,357

46 (46) North Yorkshire County Council 387,689

47 (39) Yorkshire Tourist Board 400,627

48 (-) Wakefield College 403,608

49 (-) West Yorkshire Playhouse 411,972

50 (38) York-United-Kingdom (An Independent York Guide) 486,118

Others:

- (33) Daelnet 536,327

Business Link West Yorkshire 536,327

Yorkshire Futures 486,946

Yorkshire Visitor 508, 559

 

Missing Links:

All Football League sites are now under one umbrella (premium.tv) and data is no longer available for individual clubs. Other sites we can't get Yorkshire data on include the BBC, and Genuki.

Check your own site? Alexa link

If you're piggybacking some big org like geocities or Yahoo fugeddabowtit! You just get the main site's rank.

So when there's an even playing field, like Amazon's Alexa web ranking service, it's worthy of investigation. Alexa have a pretty good system that combines page views with users. And the results are quite eye-opening.

A few notable big hitters in the county - like the BBC - fall outside the search, as their Yorkshire pages are part of their national hit rate. And Genuki's Yorkshire section is a big local site too, but again it's impossible to judge.

Universities run all sorts of services and sub-sites from their servers (including student home pages) which explains their rank. The banks and building societies now offer online services that attract hits too.

And the football clubs attract their own audience worldwide. The 2004 phenomenon has been fanzine style footie sites taking over from 'official sites in popularity. Since the Football League made the 'official' ones subscription-only the field is nowwide open for new sites. The most popular we've found so far - Blades United - seems more popular than even the sufc site of old.

The continuing surprise is Yorkshire Posts, an independently run community forum - outperforming most of the well-funded Yorkshire newspapers and big city councils. Quietly a new force has emerged on the Yorkshire scene.

And the relatively poor performance of the Yorkshire Tourism outfit suggests that a few full time webbers need to pull their collective fingers out and get promoting our wonderful county. Getting out-performed by a site prepared by a small computer firm in their spare time (York-United-Kingdom.com) - C'mon!

(Alexa ranks in order of world popularity, where a ranking of 1 is better than 1000.)

 



NORTHERNER
________________

 

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We name the most popular websites in Yorkshire - January 2004.

We scoured the Alexa search rankings to find the most popular Yorkshire websites and found a few surprises!

Business has a way of selling itself as more successful as it really is, and the web is an area where success is hard to measure.

The Yorkshire Top Fifty:
The most popular sites in the county based on the January Alexa.com rankings, February 1st 2004

Note: A few good small sites in Yorkshire use the UK2NET servers, or registered their domain with them. All UK2NET sites achieve an identical general server ranking .

(Bracket is 2003 January figure)

1 (1) Halifax Building Society 5,475th rank

2 (3) University of Leeds 8,555.

3 (5). Hallam University 12,003

4 (2) Leeds United FC 12,339

5 (4). University of Sheffield 12,779

6 (6) University of York 30,852

7 (14) Bradford & Bingley 39,168

8 (11) Leeds Metropolitan University 43,703

9. (25) Yorkshire Post 51,853

10 (9) Yorkshire Bank 53,976

11 (12) This Is York (York Evening Press) 57,744

12 (-) Blades United 86,537

13 (7) The Yorkshire Posts Forum 39,524

14 (22) Leeds Council 103,706

15 (10) Huddersfield University 119,905

16 (26/44) Sheffield Star 121,955

17(8) Bradford University 128,155

18 (26) Bradford Telegraph/Argus 153,210

19 (16) Gatecrasher (Sheffield) 155,870

20 (15) Meadowhall Shopping Center 158,167

21 (-) Bradford Bulls 99,635

22 (19) Leeds Today (Evening Post) 153,946

23 (-) Leeds / Bradford Airport 198,563

24 (-) Leeds United Mad 199,903

25 (-) Harrogate Council 236,304

26 (20) Yorkshire Information Centre (Yorkshirenet) 224,277

27 (28) Rotherham Council 227,431

28 (17) Yorkshire Building Society 247,859

29 (34) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 290,362

30 (21) Sheffield City Council 258,108

31 (41) National Railway Museum 261,389

32 (-) Sheffield School of Interior Design 265,679

33 (45) East Riding County Council 270,535

34 (-) Yorkshire Forward 273,154

35 (22) Doncaster Council 276,261

36 (24) Hull City Council 288,337

37 (-) Leedsfans 288,596

38 (40) City of York Council 299,631

39 (-) Yorkshire Births Marriages Deaths 306,578

40 (-) I Know Yorkshire 317,826

41 (40) York Tourism (First Stop York) 332,135

42 (-) National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 360,903

43 (-) York St. John College 365,324

44 (27) Calderdale Council 369,352

45 (35) Barnsley Chronicle 369,357

46 (46) North Yorkshire County Council 387,689

47 (39) Yorkshire Tourist Board 400,627

48 (-) Wakefield College 403,608

49 (-) West Yorkshire Playhouse 411,972

50 (38) York-United-Kingdom (An Independent York Guide) 486,118

Others:

- (33) Daelnet 536,327

Business Link West Yorkshire 536,327

Yorkshire Futures 486,946

Yorkshire Visitor 508, 559

 

Missing Links:

All Football League sites are now under one umbrella (premium.tv) and data is no longer available for individual clubs. Other sites we can't get Yorkshire data on include the BBC, and Genuki.

Check your own site? Alexa link

If you're piggybacking some big org like geocities or Yahoo fugeddabowtit! You just get the main site's rank.

So when there's an even playing field, like Amazon's Alexa web ranking service, it's worthy of investigation. Alexa have a pretty good system that combines page views with users. And the results are quite eye-opening.

A few notable big hitters in the county - like the BBC - fall outside the search, as their Yorkshire pages are part of their national hit rate. And Genuki's Yorkshire section is a big local site too, but again it's impossible to judge.

Universities run all sorts of services and sub-sites from their servers (including student home pages) which explains their rank. The banks and building societies now offer online services that attract hits too.

And the football clubs attract their own audience worldwide. The 2004 phenomenon has been fanzine style footie sites taking over from 'official sites in popularity. Since the Football League made the 'official' ones subscription-only the field is nowwide open for new sites. The most popular we've found so far - Blades United - seems more popular than even the sufc site of old.

The continuing surprise is Yorkshire Posts, an independently run community forum - outperforming most of the well-funded Yorkshire newspapers and big city councils. Quietly a new force has emerged on the Yorkshire scene.

And the relatively poor performance of the Yorkshire Tourism outfit suggests that a few full time webbers need to pull their collective fingers out and get promoting our wonderful county. Getting out-performed by a site prepared by a small computer firm in their spare time (York-United-Kingdom.com) - C'mon!

(Alexa ranks in order of world popularity, where a ranking of 1 is better than 1000.)

 



NORTHERNER
________________

 

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We name the most popular websites in Yorkshire - January 2004.

We scoured the Alexa search rankings to find the most popular Yorkshire websites and found a few surprises!

Business has a way of selling itself as more successful as it really is, and the web is an area where success is hard to measure.

The Yorkshire Top Fifty:
The most popular sites in the county based on the January Alexa.com rankings, February 1st 2004

Note: A few good small sites in Yorkshire use the UK2NET servers, or registered their domain with them. All UK2NET sites achieve an identical general server ranking .

(Bracket is 2003 January figure)

1 (1) Halifax Building Society 5,475th rank

2 (3) University of Leeds 8,555.

3 (5). Hallam University 12,003

4 (2) Leeds United FC 12,339

5 (4). University of Sheffield 12,779

6 (6) University of York 30,852

7 (14) Bradford & Bingley 39,168

8 (11) Leeds Metropolitan University 43,703

9. (25) Yorkshire Post 51,853

10 (9) Yorkshire Bank 53,976

11 (12) This Is York (York Evening Press) 57,744

12 (-) Blades United 86,537

13 (7) The Yorkshire Posts Forum 39,524

14 (22) Leeds Council 103,706

15 (10) Huddersfield University 119,905

16 (26/44) Sheffield Star 121,955

17(8) Bradford University 128,155

18 (26) Bradford Telegraph/Argus 153,210

19 (16) Gatecrasher (Sheffield) 155,870

20 (15) Meadowhall Shopping Center 158,167

21 (-) Bradford Bulls 99,635

22 (19) Leeds Today (Evening Post) 153,946

23 (-) Leeds / Bradford Airport 198,563

24 (-) Leeds United Mad 199,903

25 (-) Harrogate Council 236,304

26 (20) Yorkshire Information Centre (Yorkshirenet) 224,277

27 (28) Rotherham Council 227,431

28 (17) Yorkshire Building Society 247,859

29 (34) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 290,362

30 (21) Sheffield City Council 258,108

31 (41) National Railway Museum 261,389

32 (-) Sheffield School of Interior Design 265,679

33 (45) East Riding County Council 270,535

34 (-) Yorkshire Forward 273,154

35 (22) Doncaster Council 276,261

36 (24) Hull City Council 288,337

37 (-) Leedsfans 288,596

38 (40) City of York Council 299,631

39 (-) Yorkshire Births Marriages Deaths 306,578

40 (-) I Know Yorkshire 317,826

41 (40) York Tourism (First Stop York) 332,135

42 (-) National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 360,903

43 (-) York St. John College 365,324

44 (27) Calderdale Council 369,352

45 (35) Barnsley Chronicle 369,357

46 (46) North Yorkshire County Council 387,689

47 (39) Yorkshire Tourist Board 400,627

48 (-) Wakefield College 403,608

49 (-) West Yorkshire Playhouse 411,972

50 (38) York-United-Kingdom (An Independent York Guide) 486,118

Others:

- (33) Daelnet 536,327

Business Link West Yorkshire 536,327

Yorkshire Futures 486,946

Yorkshire Visitor 508, 559

 

Missing Links:

All Football League sites are now under one umbrella (premium.tv) and data is no longer available for individual clubs. Other sites we can't get Yorkshire data on include the BBC, and Genuki.

Check your own site? Alexa link

If you're piggybacking some big org like geocities or Yahoo fugeddabowtit! You just get the main site's rank.

So when there's an even playing field, like Amazon's Alexa web ranking service, it's worthy of investigation. Alexa have a pretty good system that combines page views with users. And the results are quite eye-opening.

A few notable big hitters in the county - like the BBC - fall outside the search, as their Yorkshire pages are part of their national hit rate. And Genuki's Yorkshire section is a big local site too, but again it's impossible to judge.

Universities run all sorts of services and sub-sites from their servers (including student home pages) which explains their rank. The banks and building societies now offer online services that attract hits too.

And the football clubs attract their own audience worldwide. The 2004 phenomenon has been fanzine style footie sites taking over from 'official sites in popularity. Since the Football League made the 'official' ones subscription-only the field is nowwide open for new sites. The most popular we've found so far - Blades United - seems more popular than even the sufc site of old.

The continuing surprise is Yorkshire Posts, an independently run community forum - outperforming most of the well-funded Yorkshire newspapers and big city councils. Quietly a new force has emerged on the Yorkshire scene.

And the relatively poor performance of the Yorkshire Tourism outfit suggests that a few full time webbers need to pull their collective fingers out and get promoting our wonderful county. Getting out-performed by a site prepared by a small computer firm in their spare time (York-United-Kingdom.com) - C'mon!

(Alexa ranks in order of world popularity, where a ranking of 1 is better than 1000.)

 



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We name the most popular websites in Yorkshire - January 2004.

We scoured the Alexa search rankings to find the most popular Yorkshire websites and found a few surprises!

Business has a way of selling itself as more successful as it really is, and the web is an area where success is hard to measure.

The Yorkshire Top Fifty:
The most popular sites in the county based on the January Alexa.com rankings, February 1st 2004

Note: A few good small sites in Yorkshire use the UK2NET servers, or registered their domain with them. All UK2NET sites achieve an identical general server ranking .

(Bracket is 2003 January figure)

1 (1) Halifax Building Society 5,475th rank

2 (3) University of Leeds 8,555.

3 (5). Hallam University 12,003

4 (2) Leeds United FC 12,339

5 (4). University of Sheffield 12,779

6 (6) University of York 30,852

7 (14) Bradford & Bingley 39,168

8 (11) Leeds Metropolitan University 43,703

9. (25) Yorkshire Post 51,853

10 (9) Yorkshire Bank 53,976

11 (12) This Is York (York Evening Press) 57,744

12 (-) Blades United 86,537

13 (7) The Yorkshire Posts Forum 39,524

14 (22) Leeds Council 103,706

15 (10) Huddersfield University 119,905

16 (26/44) Sheffield Star 121,955

17(8) Bradford University 128,155

18 (26) Bradford Telegraph/Argus 153,210

19 (16) Gatecrasher (Sheffield) 155,870

20 (15) Meadowhall Shopping Center 158,167

21 (-) Bradford Bulls 99,635

22 (19) Leeds Today (Evening Post) 153,946

23 (-) Leeds / Bradford Airport 198,563

24 (-) Leeds United Mad 199,903

25 (-) Harrogate Council 236,304

26 (20) Yorkshire Information Centre (Yorkshirenet) 224,277

27 (28) Rotherham Council 227,431

28 (17) Yorkshire Building Society 247,859

29 (34) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 290,362

30 (21) Sheffield City Council 258,108

31 (41) National Railway Museum 261,389

32 (-) Sheffield School of Interior Design 265,679

33 (45) East Riding County Council 270,535

34 (-) Yorkshire Forward 273,154

35 (22) Doncaster Council 276,261

36 (24) Hull City Council 288,337

37 (-) Leedsfans 288,596

38 (40) City of York Council 299,631

39 (-) Yorkshire Births Marriages Deaths 306,578

40 (-) I Know Yorkshire 317,826

41 (40) York Tourism (First Stop York) 332,135

42 (-) National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 360,903

43 (-) York St. John College 365,324

44 (27) Calderdale Council 369,352

45 (35) Barnsley Chronicle 369,357

46 (46) North Yorkshire County Council 387,689

47 (39) Yorkshire Tourist Board 400,627

48 (-) Wakefield College 403,608

49 (-) West Yorkshire Playhouse 411,972

50 (38) York-United-Kingdom (An Independent York Guide) 486,118

Others:

- (33) Daelnet 536,327

Business Link West Yorkshire 536,327

Yorkshire Futures 486,946

Yorkshire Visitor 508, 559

 

Missing Links:

All Football League sites are now under one umbrella (premium.tv) and data is no longer available for individual clubs. Other sites we can't get Yorkshire data on include the BBC, and Genuki.

Check your own site? Alexa link

If you're piggybacking some big org like geocities or Yahoo fugeddabowtit! You just get the main site's rank.

So when there's an even playing field, like Amazon's Alexa web ranking service, it's worthy of investigation. Alexa have a pretty good system that combines page views with users. And the results are quite eye-opening.

A few notable big hitters in the county - like the BBC - fall outside the search, as their Yorkshire pages are part of their national hit rate. And Genuki's Yorkshire section is a big local site too, but again it's impossible to judge.

Universities run all sorts of services and sub-sites from their servers (including student home pages) which explains their rank. The banks and building societies now offer online services that attract hits too.

And the football clubs attract their own audience worldwide. The 2004 phenomenon has been fanzine style footie sites taking over from 'official sites in popularity. Since the Football League made the 'official' ones subscription-only the field is nowwide open for new sites. The most popular we've found so far - Blades United - seems more popular than even the sufc site of old.

The continuing surprise is Yorkshire Posts, an independently run community forum - outperforming most of the well-funded Yorkshire newspapers and big city councils. Quietly a new force has emerged on the Yorkshire scene.

And the relatively poor performance of the Yorkshire Tourism outfit suggests that a few full time webbers need to pull their collective fingers out and get promoting our wonderful county. Getting out-performed by a site prepared by a small computer firm in their spare time (York-United-Kingdom.com) - C'mon!

(Alexa ranks in order of world popularity, where a ranking of 1 is better than 1000.)

 



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We name the most popular websites in Yorkshire - January 2004.

We scoured the Alexa search rankings to find the most popular Yorkshire websites and found a few surprises!

Business has a way of selling itself as more successful as it really is, and the web is an area where success is hard to measure.

The Yorkshire Top Fifty:
The most popular sites in the county based on the January Alexa.com rankings, February 1st 2004

Note: A few good small sites in Yorkshire use the UK2NET servers, or registered their domain with them. All UK2NET sites achieve an identical general server ranking .

(Bracket is 2003 January figure)

1 (1) Halifax Building Society 5,475th rank

2 (3) University of Leeds 8,555.

3 (5). Hallam University 12,003

4 (2) Leeds United FC 12,339

5 (4). University of Sheffield 12,779

6 (6) University of York 30,852

7 (14) Bradford & Bingley 39,168

8 (11) Leeds Metropolitan University 43,703

9. (25) Yorkshire Post 51,853

10 (9) Yorkshire Bank 53,976

11 (12) This Is York (York Evening Press) 57,744

12 (-) Blades United 86,537

13 (7) The Yorkshire Posts Forum 39,524

14 (22) Leeds Council 103,706

15 (10) Huddersfield University 119,905

16 (26/44) Sheffield Star 121,955

17(8) Bradford University 128,155

18 (26) Bradford Telegraph/Argus 153,210

19 (16) Gatecrasher (Sheffield) 155,870

20 (15) Meadowhall Shopping Center 158,167

21 (-) Bradford Bulls 99,635

22 (19) Leeds Today (Evening Post) 153,946

23 (-) Leeds / Bradford Airport 198,563

24 (-) Leeds United Mad 199,903

25 (-) Harrogate Council 236,304

26 (20) Yorkshire Information Centre (Yorkshirenet) 224,277

27 (28) Rotherham Council 227,431

28 (17) Yorkshire Building Society 247,859

29 (34) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 290,362

30 (21) Sheffield City Council 258,108

31 (41) National Railway Museum 261,389

32 (-) Sheffield School of Interior Design 265,679

33 (45) East Riding County Council 270,535

34 (-) Yorkshire Forward 273,154

35 (22) Doncaster Council 276,261

36 (24) Hull City Council 288,337

37 (-) Leedsfans 288,596

38 (40) City of York Council 299,631

39 (-) Yorkshire Births Marriages Deaths 306,578

40 (-) I Know Yorkshire 317,826

41 (40) York Tourism (First Stop York) 332,135

42 (-) National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 360,903

43 (-) York St. John College 365,324

44 (27) Calderdale Council 369,352

45 (35) Barnsley Chronicle 369,357

46 (46) North Yorkshire County Council 387,689

47 (39) Yorkshire Tourist Board 400,627

48 (-) Wakefield College 403,608

49 (-) West Yorkshire Playhouse 411,972

50 (38) York-United-Kingdom (An Independent York Guide) 486,118

Others:

- (33) Daelnet 536,327

Business Link West Yorkshire 536,327

Yorkshire Futures 486,946

Yorkshire Visitor 508, 559

 

Missing Links:

All Football League sites are now under one umbrella (premium.tv) and data is no longer available for individual clubs. Other sites we can't get Yorkshire data on include the BBC, and Genuki.

Check your own site? Alexa link

If you're piggybacking some big org like geocities or Yahoo fugeddabowtit! You just get the main site's rank.

So when there's an even playing field, like Amazon's Alexa web ranking service, it's worthy of investigation. Alexa have a pretty good system that combines page views with users. And the results are quite eye-opening.

A few notable big hitters in the county - like the BBC - fall outside the search, as their Yorkshire pages are part of their national hit rate. And Genuki's Yorkshire section is a big local site too, but again it's impossible to judge.

Universities run all sorts of services and sub-sites from their servers (including student home pages) which explains their rank. The banks and building societies now offer online services that attract hits too.

And the football clubs attract their own audience worldwide. The 2004 phenomenon has been fanzine style footie sites taking over from 'official sites in popularity. Since the Football League made the 'official' ones subscription-only the field is nowwide open for new sites. The most popular we've found so far - Blades United - seems more popular than even the sufc site of old.

The continuing surprise is Yorkshire Posts, an independently run community forum - outperforming most of the well-funded Yorkshire newspapers and big city councils. Quietly a new force has emerged on the Yorkshire scene.

And the relatively poor performance of the Yorkshire Tourism outfit suggests that a few full time webbers need to pull their collective fingers out and get promoting our wonderful county. Getting out-performed by a site prepared by a small computer firm in their spare time (York-United-Kingdom.com) - C'mon!

(Alexa ranks in order of world popularity, where a ranking of 1 is better than 1000.)

 



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Rant!

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We name the most popular websites in Yorkshire - January 2004.

We scoured the Alexa search rankings to find the most popular Yorkshire websites and found a few surprises!

Business has a way of selling itself as more successful as it really is, and the web is an area where success is hard to measure.

The Yorkshire Top Fifty:
The most popular sites in the county based on the January Alexa.com rankings, February 1st 2004

Note: A few good small sites in Yorkshire use the UK2NET servers, or registered their domain with them. All UK2NET sites achieve an identical general server ranking .

(Bracket is 2003 January figure)

1 (1) Halifax Building Society 5,475th rank

2 (3) University of Leeds 8,555.

3 (5). Hallam University 12,003

4 (2) Leeds United FC 12,339

5 (4). University of Sheffield 12,779

6 (6) University of York 30,852

7 (14) Bradford & Bingley 39,168

8 (11) Leeds Metropolitan University 43,703

9. (25) Yorkshire Post 51,853

10 (9) Yorkshire Bank 53,976

11 (12) This Is York (York Evening Press) 57,744

12 (-) Blades United 86,537

13 (7) The Yorkshire Posts Forum 39,524

14 (22) Leeds Council 103,706

15 (10) Huddersfield University 119,905

16 (26/44) Sheffield Star 121,955

17(8) Bradford University 128,155

18 (26) Bradford Telegraph/Argus 153,210

19 (16) Gatecrasher (Sheffield) 155,870

20 (15) Meadowhall Shopping Center 158,167

21 (-) Bradford Bulls 99,635

22 (19) Leeds Today (Evening Post) 153,946

23 (-) Leeds / Bradford Airport 198,563

24 (-) Leeds United Mad 199,903

25 (-) Harrogate Council 236,304

26 (20) Yorkshire Information Centre (Yorkshirenet) 224,277

27 (28) Rotherham Council 227,431

28 (17) Yorkshire Building Society 247,859

29 (34) Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council 290,362

30 (21) Sheffield City Council 258,108

31 (41) National Railway Museum 261,389

32 (-) Sheffield School of Interior Design 265,679

33 (45) East Riding County Council 270,535

34 (-) Yorkshire Forward 273,154

35 (22) Doncaster Council 276,261

36 (24) Hull City Council 288,337

37 (-) Leedsfans 288,596

38 (40) City of York Council 299,631

39 (-) Yorkshire Births Marriages Deaths 306,578

40 (-) I Know Yorkshire 317,826

41 (40) York Tourism (First Stop York) 332,135

42 (-) National Museum of Photography, Film & Television 360,903

43 (-) York St. John College 365,324

44 (27) Calderdale Council 369,352

45 (35) Barnsley Chronicle 369,357

46 (46) North Yorkshire County Council 387,689

47 (39) Yorkshire Tourist Board 400,627

48 (-) Wakefield College 403,608

49 (-) West Yorkshire Playhouse 411,972

50 (38) York-United-Kingdom (An Independent York Guide) 486,118

Others:

- (33) Daelnet 536,327

Business Link West Yorkshire 536,327

Yorkshire Futures 486,946

Yorkshire Visitor 508, 559

 

Missing Links:

All Football League sites are now under one umbrella (premium.tv) and data is no longer available for individual clubs. Other sites we can't get Yorkshire data on include the BBC, and Genuki.

Check your own site? Alexa link

If you're piggybacking some big org like geocities or Yahoo fugeddabowtit! You just get the main site's rank.

So when there's an even playing field, like Amazon's Alexa web ranking service, it's worthy of investigation. Alexa have a pretty good system that combines page views with users. And the results are quite eye-opening.

A few notable big hitters in the county - like the BBC - fall outside the search, as their Yorkshire pages are part of their national hit rate. And Genuki's Yorkshire section is a big local site too, but again it's impossible to judge.

Universities run all sorts of services and sub-sites from their servers (including student home pages) which explains their rank. The banks and building societies now offer online services that attract hits too.

And the football clubs attract their own audience worldwide. The 2004 phenomenon has been fanzine style footie sites taking over from 'official sites in popularity. Since the Football League made the 'official' ones subscription-only the field is nowwide open for new sites. The most popular we've found so far - Blades United - seems more popular than even the sufc site of old.

The continuing surprise is Yorkshire Posts, an independently run community forum - outperforming most of the well-funded Yorkshire newspapers and big city councils. Quietly a new force has emerged on the Yorkshire scene.

And the relatively poor performance of the Yorkshire Tourism outfit suggests that a few full time webbers need to pull their collective fingers out and get promoting our wonderful county. Getting out-performed by a site prepared by a small computer firm in their spare time (York-United-Kingdom.com) - C'mon!

(Alexa ranks in order of world popularity, where a ranking of 1 is better than 1000.)

 



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AYUP ONLINE MAGAZINE - APRIL 2000
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If the Cap Fits...

As Holbeck flat cap company JW Myers faces closure Phil O'Connor faces a Yorkshire future bart 'at.

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The news about the crisis at JW Myers broke around the turn of the millennium. It seemed almost unbelievable. The company, based in inner city Leeds, has turned out the familiar flat cap for 110 years exporting to 22 countries. They have fought against the vagaries of fashion for years as us young tykes turned away from the traditional headgear. They have seen it all, from straw boaters to baseball hats, and with a few nifty new ideas stayed in business.

The firm was taken over a decade ago by the Cumbria firm Kangol, and this seemed like the deal that would take the firm into the 21st century. Kangol, specialists in berets were big enough to market, to finance new ideas and to expand. Despite all this, it looked as if the old flat cap was history. Like Dickie Bird, our famous flat cap wearing cricket umpire, it had had a long magnificent innings. 110 not out. The light fading and the overs were over.

From the top:

Rembrandt self portrait
Jack Hulme pic
Andy Capp
Samuel L Jackson
Pam Grier
Phillip Bloch

But the flat cap was in surprisingly good hands. Kangol was a company with a fine tradition too. Founded in 1938 in Cumbria they had a huge market amongst workers, members of the British Armed Forces and legions of golfers. The Ang stood for Angora, the ol for wool and the K for euphony. In the states the name was always mispronounced as Kanga, and the now ubiquitous Kangaroo logo leapt forth.

Then the Hip Hop world in New York got a hold of it. 80's rappers like Doug E Fresh and Run DMC were strolling around in broad daylight with what looked suspiciously like their dad's hat on. Then LL Cool J came on strong with a terry cloth Bermuda on his nut, and suddenly the cap was back - worn with as much jewellery as you could get from Rattners or you could prize from the neighbours VW.

In the early nineties it was the Spitfire model, made of an angora-wool mix called furgora, that caught stateside imagination. Still we sniggered. By now though Kangol were doing serious business and wide boys in Britain were soon catching the drift. Liam Gallagher of Oasis was moseying around in his coolest sneer, a Kangol covering the head. The cap suddenly fitted. Suddenly we all want one.

Finally epiphany. The hype went into overdrive with Quentin Tarantino's filming of an Ellmore Leonard novel, Jackie Brown in '97. Miramax, the film's distributors used the Kangol Spitfire as promotional items. On the screen the gorgeous Pam Grier as the title character, and gun-toting Samuel L Jackson were conspicuously Kangolled, wearing the thing backwards so we could see the logo throughout the movie. Majorly cool, Kangol profits soared yet again.

The hype continues in the persona of Phillip Bloch, Hollywood's hippest style guru. His signature style is the Kangol flat cap, which he wears constantly, in fine old-bloke tradition. Bloch is so hip he's dislocated. Sandra Bullock, John Travolta, Will Smith, Jim Carrey. You get the idea. Definitely not the kind of names you normally see in Ayup's pages. No-one speaks the words "you look Fabulous" in quite the same way. The flat cap is so right-now-dot-com it is unbelievable.

So how come JW Myers, flat cap makers to the glitterati,, (albeit one step removed) are in trouble? The Guardian quotes Kangol MD David Heyts as saying that a move to production in Panyu, China would be the logical step. He told the paper that the factory in Holbeck, employing just 40 people, is losing his company over £100,000 a week. This, friends, is serious losses. Even for a company putting the flat cap back on young heads.

So after the foundries, the pits, the mills and the weavers, it seems the little guys with the big traditions are hitting the wall too. Like Rover and BMW. The big guy won't take the losses. Won't get their top notch highly paid marketing gurus back on the plane from Hollywood and New York to work out a bold new strategy. Won't step in for fellow countrymen when profits are at stake, and you can pay Far-Eastern workers 20p to make a $29 dollar product.

But you never know. This might have been a "Salad Cream" stunt. Tell the people that the old traditional product is about to cease production, reap huge publicity, then change your mind and play the hero. It happens. You never know.

Sanjeev Bhaskar and Kulvinder Singh show how it's really done, aided and abetted by Meera Sayal and Nina Wadia. They are the Kupoors. Sorry the Coopers. Goodness Gracious Me.
Phil O'Connor

 

GIRL POWER

 

Nothing On
But a Smile

Rylstone and District Women's Institute made a calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research. Nude. Now they are so famous they are about to sign a film deal.

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Amongst the pretty little wannabes of central London the big career move is to strip for the glossy men's mags. Bingo, they are on the front pages of Maxim, Arena, FHM, or Loaded. All in the best possible taste, as Kenny Everett used to day. The likes of Gail Porter, Sara Cox and Caprice have all done it, and it hasn't done their career any harm. But what if you're nearly sixty and tending your garden up in the Yorkshire Dales?

The full story does indeed read like a movie script. It begins with a gift of sunflowers to friends in the local Women's Institute. And It begins with the giver of these sunflowers - an Assistant National Park Officer for the Yorkshire Dales by the name of John Baker. John had been battling with Leukaemia for some time and grew the flowers to take his mind off things. He gave the sunflowers in the hope that he would have recovered by the time they had grown.

The local WI decided to produce a Calendar with a difference to raise money for leukaemia and lymphoma research. They all agreed to pose nude, with tastefully placed items to protect their modesty. Since most of the women were grandmothers this was a source of great mirth for everyone and took John's mind off his ill health.

Unfortunately John didn't live to see the Calendar completed. He died aged 54 in the summer of 1998. The sunflowers became an unofficial symbol of his memory, and feature prominently in the calendars photographs. Pearl necklaces, hats and floral displays preserve their modesty. Yet the Calendar attracted huge attention and publicity. The institute was inundated with requests for copies around the world.

Now the Institute's Calendar has raised over £330,000 and the BBC reports that the Rylstone and District Women's Institute are about to sign a film deal to tell the whole story. The 2000 Calendar is out of print, but a new, eighteen month version is being produced. The women are international sex symbols but the success wont be gloated over in trendy London bars.

Back in Skipton the Women's Institutes stuffy old cobwebs have been quietly blown away. November's rosalyn Fawcett (aged 49) told the BBC "I think the image of the WI has gone forever now. We didn't expect this much fuss. While we were doing it we were a bit nervous at first. But it ended up being good fun thanks to quite a lot of red wine!"

Anne D

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AYUP MAGAZINE - THE BEST OF YORKSHIRE

 

 

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