Website Statistics

Site Usage

The graph and table show the number of visits and visitors to South Tyneside Community Website in the last 12 months.

 

Graph showing visits, visitors and page views over the last 12 months
Comparison with the same period last year
  Visitors Visits
December 2009 88,850 148,494
December 2008 46,231 96,502
Figures for the last 12 months
  Visitors Visits
December 2009 88,850 148,494
November 2009 89,125 160,104
October 2009 84,537 151,578
September 2009 80,997 147,115
August 2009 78,342 136,994
July 2009 79,670 145,252
June 2009 70,201 137,572
May 2009 70,307 137,041
April 2009 68,739 134,004
March 2009 73,413 145,865
February 2009 65,808 128,741
January 2009 63,502 128,113
December 2008 46,231 96,502

Robots, spiders and crawlers used by search engines and traffic from inside the Council's computer network have been excluded from this count.

Site Performance

South Tyneside Council aims to make its corporate web site, www.southtyneside.info, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week throughout the year, with service disruptions minimised for essential maintenance. Our aim is to make this site available at least 99% of the time averaged over the last 12 months.

Our availability is monitored by Site Confidence, www.siteconfidence.co.uk, a private company which provides statistics based on site tests carried out at twenty-minute intervals.

The actual availability over the last 12 months has been 98.62%.

Figures show the Average download speed and Availability over the last twelve months.

Availability figures.
  Avg download speed
(Seconds) 		% Availability
December 2009 16.69 99.92
November 2009 16.14 99.96
October 2009 23.26 98.22
September 2009 25.34 96.72
August 2009 25.61 98.55
July 2009 25.36 99.01
June 2009 23.96 98.36
May 2009 24.03 97.95
April 2009 24.25 99.98
March 2009 24.22 99.69
February 2009 24.76 96.69
January 2009 24.02 98.24
December 2008 24.51 95.98

Definitions

  • Visitors - Each individual person who visits South Tyneside Community Website during each month period. If someone visits more than once, they are counted only the first time they visit.
  • Visits- Number of times a visitor comes to South Tyneside Community Website during each month period. Each time a visitor accesses the site it counts as a visit.
  • Average download speed - The average time it takes for a page to fully appear on screen (at 56K bps)
  • Availability - We try to make sure that this site is always available on the Internet (100% of the time). Occasionally, either because of maintenance or conditions on the Internet, the site may be briefly unavailable.