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One gets the impression that the belated spring garden rush is about to launch.
Rising temperatures and lots of sunshine (in the south at least) appear to have gotten people thinking about finally starting their garden projects.
Easter is traditionally the start of the garden season but a near record cold snap for the time of year delayed purchases.
As I reported yesterday, figures from the Garden Centre Association didn't make for good reading with many garden centres reporting big drops in hard landscaping products and outdoor plants.
Judging by this weeks visitor numbers to Landscape Juice there's been a significant interest in gardening and landscaping this week. If the weather holds I'd expect there to be similar figures for the rest of the week and into next.
The Google Analytics screenshot - I've added the screenshot because most trade publications tend to lie and big up their figures, where as I don't need to;-0) - taken this morning shows the last three days have seen more than 3,000 visitors landing on the Landscape Juice Network each day.
However you can see that visitor numbers have been hovering close to 3,000 for some time.
Tellingly, 65% of those visiting are new visitors: normally we get about a 50/50 split between returning and new visitors.
One of the most pleasing figures is that visitors are averaging nearly four minutes on the site with a very respectable 62% bounce rate.
The last 30 days have averaged 2452.5 visitors per day, that's 73,575 visitors in total.
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Posted by: Andrew | Apr 27, 2013 at 05:11 AM
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I'll modify the text (and pay heed for the future:-)
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