As part of the City's ongoing commitment to improve the City website, staff enlisted a group of community volunteers to serve on a Website Advisory Committee with the goal of producing a set of recommendations to address concerns raised by citizens and enhance the overall website user-experience. The Website Advisory Committee, comprised of a select group of dedicated community volunteers, has met regularly during the past three years to help City staff with the creation of our present website.
Below you will find statistics about the performance of this site. The statistics are updated on a monthly basis for the prior month's activity. To the left are buttons to take you to information about the ongoing maintenance of this website, Ways to contact the City of Palo Alto about this website, and legal information.
Data For Month of February 2013
Quick Facts
Visits
127,584
Unique Visitors
90,022
Pageviews
312,845
Pages / Visit
2.45
Avg. Visit Duration
2:09 Min
% New Visits
56%
The "Quick Facts" section provides "at a glance" information about this website.
Note: When somebody comes to this website, that constitutes a "visit". If the same person (from the same computer) visits again, that visit is counted again, but the "Unique Visitors" number does not increment, it counts two visits from the same computer in a certain period as one visit.
Top Pages
Page
Unique Views
Library
23,501
Home Page
18,546
Library - Kids
6,715
Search
6,050
Library - My Account
5,589
Departments
5,228
404
4,456
Utilities
4,276
Enjoy Catalog
3,541
With website metrics, a trend is generally more useful than any one snapshot in time. This information can be very useful in helping City Staff to determine what information visitors are looking for the most.
The Home Page of this site has a "Most Popular" corner, but it is a curated list, whereas these results are based on raw data.
Top Referring Keywords
palo alto library
city of palo alto
palo alto
palo alto police
palo alto ca
palo alto police department
palo alto children's theater
When visitors come to the website as a result of a Google search, analytics captures the terms the visitor entered to find the site. This report helps City Staff determine visitor's interests in both the short (monthly) and long (annual) term.
New site content is one outcome of analysis of this report. Another outcome is the addition of keywords to commonly sought after pages to make them more easily found by a search.
Mobile Devices
Device
Visits
Apple iPhone
9,044
Apple iPad
7,590
Unknown
465
Samsung Galaxy S3
334
Samsung Galaxy Nexus
253
Apple iPod
188
Google Nexus 7
188
Motorola MOTXT912B Droid Razr 4G
125
This month, mobile devices accounted for 16% of website visits.
Mobile devices users are an increasingly important website visitor segment.
Browsers
Device
Visits
Internet Explorer
35%
Safari
25%
Chrome
21%
Firefox
15%
Android Browser
2%
As of February 2013, Wikipedia ranks global browser popularity:
Chrome, 32% Internet Explorer 26% Firefox 18% Safari 7%
