Website performance

About this website's performance

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

2024 website visitor statistics

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

The following table only shows a snapshot of website usage. It displays data from 'consenting users', meaning they have chosen to accept cookies when using the website. 

Website visitor statistics for 2024.
2024 Users Pageviews Views per user Average time on site Visitors viewing more than one page
January 69,341 361,817 5.22 00:01:26 41.59%
February 76,377 347,076 4.54 00:01:16 41.26%
March 78,429 379,924 4.84 00:01:19 41.76%
April 66,224 333,321 4.11 00:01:23 37.88%
May 76,828 356,519 4.64 00:01:19 43.60%
June 67,230 326,074 4.85 00:01:20 42.86%
July 77,229 374,431 4.85 00:01:19 40.98%
August 69,947 335,065 4.79 00:01:18 40.68%
September 80,382 396,083 4.93 00:01:22 41.29%
October 68,985 362,014 5.25 00:01:21 41.16%
November 68,953 319,547 4.63 00:01:09 41.40%

This is what each statistic means:

  • Users: this figure represents the number of active users.
  • Pageviews: this figure represents the total number of requested pages. From October 2023, this means the total number of mobile app screens or web pages users saw. Repeated views of a single screen or page are counted.
  • Views per user: this is the average number of pages each visitor looked at. From October 2023, this means the average number of mobile app screens or web pages users saw. Repeated views of a single screen or page are counted.
  • Average time on site: this is the average length of time a visitor stays on the site in minutes and seconds.
  • Visitors viewing more than one page: this is the percentage of visitors who visited more than one page on the site.

Essential maintenance

We aim to have the Rochdale Borough Council website available for use 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 per cent as possible.

Website availability

The table below displays when our website has been available.

Website availability for 2024.
Period Total downtime in period Number of outages in period Uptime
1 April 2024–30 April 2024 00:01:00 1 More than 99.99%
1 May 2024–31 May 2024 00:00:00 0 100%
1 June 2024-30 June 2024 00:02:00 2 99.99%
1 July 2024-31 July 2024 00:00:00 0 100%
1 August 2024–31 August 2024 00:02:00 1 More than 99.99%
1 September 2024–30 September 2024 00:00:00 0 100%
1 October 2024–31 October 2024 00:03:00 1 99.99%
1 November 2024–30 November 2024 00:00:00 0 100%