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 and the number of page views that were requested.

 

Graph showing visits, visitors and page views over the last 12 months
Figures for September 2008 compared with September 2007
  Visitors Visits
September 08 66,320 135,922
September-07 51,650 118,392
Figures for the last 12 months
  Visitors Visits
September 08 66,320 135,922
August 08 67,895 135,398
July 08 89,897 169,649
June-08 64,867 133,434
May-08 54,763 121,315
Apr-08 50,663 114,138
Mar-08 51,783 127,580
Feb-08 47,582 114,869
Jan-08 50,130 119,711
Dec-07 35,405 82,628
Nov-07 49,900 110,565
Oct-07 47,926 114,989
Sep-07 51,650 118,392

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 99.21%.

 

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


Availability figures.
  Avg download speed Availability
December-08 24.51 secs 95.98%
November-08 22.47 secs 95.16%
October-08 21.85 secs 100%
September-08 21.93 secs 100%
August-08 21.71 secs 99.87%
July-08 20.04 secs 97.34%
June-08 17.10 secs 99.68%
May-08 16.30 secs 100%
April-08 15.51 secs 95.59%
March-08 15.94 secs 99.98%
February-08 16.00 secs 99.95%
January-08 16.21 secs 100%

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.
  • Page Views - Hits to files designated as pages. Supporting graphics and other non-page files are not counted.
  • 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.