About this website's performance
Reliable performance is important to encourage and maintain the usage of quality web-based services.
2025 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.
| 2025 | Users | Pageviews | Views per user | Average time on site (hours: minutes: seconds) | Visitors viewing more than one page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 65,126 | 347,210 | 5.33 | 00:01:19 | 60.04% |
| February | 55,085 | 290,487 | 5.27 | 00:01:19 | 59.46% |
| March | 65,213 | 377,975 | 5.80 | 00:01:22 | 59.91% |
| April | 66,337 | 327,671 | 4.94 | 00:01:13 | 58.54% |
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 hours, 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.
| Period | Total downtime (hours: minutes: seconds) |
Number of outages | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2025–31 January 2025 | 00:06:00 | 6 | 99.99% |
| 1 February 2025–28 February 2025 | 00:04:00 | 3 | 99.99% |
| 1 March 2025–31 March 2025 | 00:03:00 | 2 | 99.99% |