Website performance

Our web statistics represent the access and usage records for our rochdale.gov.uk domain.

Reliable performance is important in order to encourage and maintain the usage of quality web-based services.

Website availability

Our aim is to have the Rochdale Borough Council website available for use at all times throughout the year; we acknowledge this is not always possible due to essential maintenance. We are committed to making our site available as close to 100% as possible.

August 2008 - user statistics

Over the month we had 43,698 unique visitors to the site. Between them they made a total of 71,693 visits.

These visitors looked at a total of 253,166  pages. Each visitor viewed an average of 3.5 pages and spent an average of 2 minutes 26 seconds with us.

64% of people looked at more than one page.

Previous months at a glance

  Unique
visitors
Total
visits
Page
views
Average
page views
Time on
site (m:s)
Visitors viewing
more than 1 page
January 46,725 78,002 264,594 3.4 2:42 66%
February Website statistics unavailable for this month
March 38,663 65,190 235,496 3.6 2:38 66%
April 47,799  79,752 282,362 3.5 2:31 64%
May 46,810 76,771 265,294 3.5 2:27 64%
June 47,359 79,560 270,588 3.4 2:23 63%
July 48,875 82,412 286,556 3.5 2:25 64%
August 43,698 71,693 253,166 3.5 2:26 64%

Unique visitors: This figure represents the number of distinct hosts that were served from the Internet.
Total visits: This figure represents the total number of user sessions.
Page views: This figure represents the total number of pages that are requested.
Average page views: This is average number of pages each visitor looked at.
Time on site: This is the average length of time a visitor stays on the site in minute and seconds.
Visitors viewing more than one page: This is the percentage of visitors who visited more than one page on the site.