quietmoneySurreyunion
Official website of the University of Surrey Students' Union: events, clubs and societies, advice and news, with tickets sold for some events.
This is the offOne-line growth story, compiled by us from public sources; speculation is marked separately below.
Checkout visits over time
Checkout: checkout.stripe.com
1. Productwhat it sells, to whom, and how it charges
- Product
- Official website of the University of Surrey Students' Union: events, clubs and societies, advice and news, with tickets sold for some events.
- Users
- Current students at the University of Surrey, UK
- Positioning
- The university's official students' union, and the only entry point
- Pricing
- Most events are free; some workshops are paid, e.g. pumpkin painting at £2.50 Billing: one-time Free tier: yes Source: Existing
- Prices on site
- £2.50 one-time (pumpkin painting workshop); several workshops free
- Team
- small team
- Rough new MRR
- $5,458 – $8,188 Checkout visits last month × 20–30% conversion × listed price. New revenue only; renewals skip checkout, so real MRR is usually higher.
“'Bring your friends, housemates or even come along by yourself' (event copy, not a product mechanic)”Quote from the site
2. Channelswhere new users come from and what the traffic looks like
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Direct 50.9%, search 36.8% (brand keywords 87.7%: surrey union, surrey su, university of surrey freshers week 2026), referral 7.4%. New students flood in during the start-of-year intake, and current students come back directly to check events.
Last month's traffic sources
Top channel measured by Similarweb, others estimated by rank
Five-class attribution
| Attributable new users, last month | Share |
|---|---|
| Other | 100% |
Direct + brand search 88%. Direct and brand search count as viral only when the site shows sharing mechanics; the largest share wins, under 5% means Other.
Countries
| Country | Share of visits |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 93.27% |
| United States | 3.21% |
| India | 1.25% |
| Saudi Arabia | 0.96% |
| Canada | 0.68% |
Language
English
Social sources
YouTube, LinkedIn
Keywords
185 keywords · brand ~88% · organic 100% / paid 0%
| Similarweb top 5 keywords |
|---|
| surrey union |
| rubix surrey |
| surrey su |
| university of surrey freshers week 2026 |
| surrey taekwondo wtf contact |
Referrer categories
| Category | Share of referrals |
|---|---|
| Science and Education - Other | 69.57% |
| Universities and Colleges | 14.94% |
| Programming and Developer Software | 1.3% |
Site metrics (Similarweb, last month)
- Visits, last 3 months
- 62.1K (3 months)
- Visits MoM
- +67.74%
- Country rank
- United Kingdom #17705
- Category rank
- Science and Education/Universities and Colleges #294
- Bounce rate
- 27.39%
- Pages / visit
- 6.83
- Visit duration
- 00:05:46
- Industry
- Universities and Colleges
- Top 3 channels
- Direct › Organic Search › Referrals (top channel 50.93%)
3. Growth pathhow the first users arrived and what kept it growing
Classification
Basics
Timeline
Growth loop
Revenue and scale clues
Confidence and gaps
Other sites that started via “Institutional distribution”
Similar sitessame category, also growing via Other
FAQ
How many checkout visits does Surreyunion get per month?
About 8,596 last month (Similarweb estimate), #341 of 606; the month before was 207. Opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue.
Where do Surreyunion's new users come from?
New-user source: Other (Direct / referral / email / paid). Mostly referrals, email or paid, or mostly direct with no clear source Direct 50.9%, search 36.8% (brand keywords 87.7%: surrey union, surrey su, university of surrey freshers week 2026), referral 7.4%. New students flood in during the start-of-year intake, and current students come back directly to check events.
How much does Surreyunion cost?
Most events are free; some workshops are paid, e.g. pumpkin painting at £2.50
Dossier confidence: high. Parts 1 and 2 come from reading the site and Similarweb data; part 3 from public reporting, founder posts, Wayback snapshots, WHOIS and similar, with speculation marked.
The number: checkout visits is Similarweb's estimate of visits from the site to a checkout payment page; opening checkout is not paying, so this is not revenue. Small sites land on fixed buckets.
Data through last month. Page updated 2026-10-26.