Website Statistics

From April 2010 we have started to record statistics across all the Darlington Borough Council websites. This includes:

Sources of information: Visitor information is gathered using Google Analytics [external link]. Website availability information (up time) is gathered using SiteImprove [external link].

2012

Activity Jan Feb Mar Apr
Number of visits to the website 124,956 105,934 107,143 107,808
Average number of visits to the website each day 4031 3653 3456 3594
Number of unique visitors 62,449 52,513 53,780 57,241
Number of page views 428,042 369,581 356,015 378,223
Average length of time on website each visit (hh:mm:ss) 00:03:37 00:03:49 00:03:44 00:03:41

Web statistics going back to 2008 are available in our web statistics document [pdf document]

Website Uptime

2012

Jan Feb Mar Apr
www.darlington.gov.uk (%) 99.94 99.97 99.84 98.94
Online payments system (%) 99.93 99.99 99.88 99.72
Online forms system (%) 96.77 99.36 99.88 99.73

2011

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
www.darlington.gov.uk (%) 99.87 97.78 99.74 99.98 99.90 99.88 97.50 99.35 97.83 99.78 95.64 99.02
Online payments system (%) 99.94 99.85 99.80 99.98 99.91 99.95 97.55 99.99 99.99 99.93 99.98 100.00
Online forms system (%) 99.92 99.86 99.79 99.99 99.90 99.94 97.55 100.00 96.34 99.81 97.22 99.02

2010

Sep* Oct Nov Dec
www.darlington.gov.uk (%) 99.87 98.55 99.93 99.42
Online payments system (%) 99.97 100 99.93 99.53
Online forms system (%) N/A 77.49 99.93 99.43

*Note: we started using the service partway through September 2010 so these statistics do not account for the full month.