Annual Parish Meeting 2024 Parish Website Report

STOODLEIGH PARISH WEBSITE – https://www.middevonparish.co.uk/stoodleigh/

STOODLEIGH COMMUNITY EMAIL – stoodleighweb@gmail.com

REPORT TO ANNUAL PARISH MEETING – 29 MAY 2024

As many of you know, Stoodleigh Parish website has been hosted by Mid Devon District Council as a free facility via the Parish Council since 2013. Regular updates are provided by MDDC to help the parish website administrators in Mid Devon to ensure information on our websites is as accessible as possible to everyone.

Google Analytic reports can be accessed to check on website use and what users are looking at most. Figures in the last month to 28 May show that there have been about 1500 users on the website. Reports show the breakdown of hits on its page.

The most read webpages are, in order:

Stoodleigh home page – 661
Parish Council general info – 221
News – 158
Parish Council: MDDC planning applications links – 105
Parish Groups: Stoodleigh Cricket Club – 70
Useful Info pages: Police – 68
Parish Council Minutes – 50
Useful Info pages: Rainfall – 44
Stoodleigh Inn – 42

Plus slightly lower figures for Parish Council Meetings/Agendas; Parish Groups/Organisations inc Garden Club and Walkie Talkies; Church & Parish Hall pages.

As the volunteer website administrator, I find the support and back up from MDDC IT Services is brilliant. Quick, friendly and efficient. The website is really only as good as the news you provide to me to upload and share so please just keep it coming to stoodleighweb@gmail.com.

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Community Email, via stoodleighweb@gmail.com, has 170 people on the email list. The addition of Stoodleigh WhatsApp Watch and Stoodleigh WhatsApp Community, where messages are more quickly circulated and responses can be instant, means that less email messages are shared. Community Email continues to have its place and I share duplicate messages when asked and if appropriate. There are pieces of news which those without WhatsApp would not hear or learn about.

I enjoy playing a part in communication amongst our community so keep those messages coming to share with your fellow residents!

We can, or course, talk to one another – although Email and WhatsApp news shares info more widely across the village more quickly!

Geraldine Talbot

Stoodleighweb Admin