2003 is the total number of page views across our A Church Near You website during the past week. That creates a new landmark high in people visiting our site.

Remember, a visitor may visit more than one of our pages on a single visit. The Church of England gets this information from the website servers. With this method, even people who opt out of cookies are counted, which improves accuracy compared to Google Analytics.

There will be many parishes whose websites can claim much higher levels of interest but we've grown steadily over the past three years. In fact we've seen our growth increase almost ten-fold.

So thank you to all you readers who are visiting our site and reading our information, prayers and news stories. We would be nothing without you.