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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 Festivals section at virtual-swanage.co.uk/whats-on has always been a challenging section due to repeating events causing search engine listing problems due to many repeating events causing duplicate cont
12 November 2024
Year Long Webcam Timelapse

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

2024 Site stats Jan to May

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

The Heart of Swanage listings

We are pleased to announce that we have a new section for local shops and businesses located in the “Heart of Swanage” which are a group of smaller shops and businesses which lie in Commercial Road an

2023 to 2024 Site news and stats

2024 marks our 28th year at the Virtual Swanage website and we would like to thank all the businesses and organisations who have supported us in the past 28 years. Today the website has 29 accommodat

November and December updates

Welcome to the following businesses who have added their information to the Purbeck Directory at Virtual Swanage. Swanage RBL - a friendly social club that welcomes its club members and the public si

Website stats update for the past 12 months

Below is a table showing the visitor stats for the Virtual Swanage website for the past 12 months. Since updating the design of the website a few months ago we have seen a noticeable increase in both

August 2023 Website Update and News

In the past few months, we have been working on many changes to the website behind the scenes, which improve the speed and compatibility of the website with both mobile and desktop computer users. Th

25 Years of Virtual Swanage

25 Years ago, we started the Virtual Swanage website with 5 pages, now we have over 2250 pages of local information, events, photos and business listings. For our 25th anniversary we have launched a

Cycle route videos on youtube

Mountain biker Mike JP from Mike's MTB Adventures has visited Swanage and the Isle of Purbeck on his holidays and created videos of his bike rides in the area. Mike used our cycle routes for some of

New Directory listings and section

We have updated the local directory with a new section for hairdressers based in Swanage and the surrounding area. We have added the following hairdressers to the new section today: Innovation - Un

New Events Added

We have added over 60 new events to the local diary

New electric car charging location

We have added the new charging location to the Electric car charging page.

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