UkSocaScene.com went live on the 14th March 2012, so at this current time we are very close to being live for a month.

Now, I’m a feedback and stats kinda guy. I need to measure (as much as possible) the effect of what we are doing is having on you.

The absolute best way for us to measure our effect on you is via direct feedback from you. Which is why we have dedicated a page specially for you to provide us with your feedback (thank you to all who have already used it).

BUT as you know, not everyone likes to write down their thoughts, however I still need a way to measure our effect, so I use online tools which makes this possible.

The first of which is Alexa.com.
Alexa supply web intelligence on where websites in the world are ranked (they do a lot more than this, but this is it in a nut shell).

At the time of writing this article we are currently ranked 1,530,987th website in the world. On the 14th March when we launched the site we were ranked 3,015,706th in the world. So as you can see we have increased our ranking by some 1,484,719. Not to shabby.

Just to give you some scope. There are billions of websites in the world, so even though 1,530,987 is a high figure it could be a billion times worse (literally).

Google is in first place, Facebook is second, YouTube is third.

Let the inner geek in you out, follow our progress to, its simple to do. Go to Alexa.com. Type uksocascene.com in the search bar and voi-la, Alexa rank displayed before your very eyes.

You can use this tool to monitor any website.

The other tool we use is Google Analytics.
This tool lets us monitor every move you make on our site. We get to learn:

• What content you like the most.
• Which content you spend the most time on.
• Which content you don’t like so much.
• Where you go after you have looked at a certain page.
• How you managed to land on our site in the first place.
• And a whole lot more.

It is a very powerful tool.

Why Measure The Effect?

We built this site for you to use. Therefore we need to make it full of what you want to see and not clog it up with crap that you are not interested in. We can find this information out using the tools above without you telling us.

All sites who care about their audience will be monitoring the effect their website is having. It makes a huge difference. We are able to understand your needs better. Which leads to us providing you with a better site.

With all that said you can expect to see some changes to uksocascene.com in the near future.

In the meantime feel free to give us your feedback.