Page hits for the main departmental websites are detailed as follows.
Page hits for the Department’s website:
www.dh.gov.uk
March 2008 to February 2009—64,678,663
Number of visits Page impressions February 2009 1,361,442 5,642,052 January 2009 1,507,257 6,205,364 December 2008 1,041,753 4,403,460 November 2008 1,278,086 5,578,886 October 2008 1,257,254 5,555,268 September 2008 1,126,097 4,717,921 August 2008 859,571 3,647,145 July 2008 1,226,589 5,122,615 June 2008 1,389,120 5,883,074 May 2008 1,316,806 5,842,608 April 2008 1,402,508 6,474,523 March 2008 1,191,293 5,605,747
Page hits for:
www.advisorybodies.doh.gov.uk
March 2008 to February 2009—1,756,641
Number of visits Page impressions February 2009 44,594 133,699 January 2009 47,567 143,423 December 2008 52,483 156,840 November 2008 61,437 181,291 October 2008 65,873 190,170 September 2008 47,812 133,031 August 2008 43,895 126,039 July 2008 55,151 137,455 June 2008 68,211 147,110 May 2008 80,641 145,979 April 2008 79,440 138,647 March 2008 65,210 122,957
Page hits for:
www.nhs.uk
March 2008 to February 2009—199,738,205
Number of visits Page impressions February 2009 5,730,784 28,675,990 January 2009 5,653,486 28,419,522 December 2008 4,057,157 19,962,397 November 2008 4,243,219 22,078,113 October 2008 3,118,019 14,362,161 September 2008 2,636,926 12,982,408 August 2008 2,566,666 13,004,201 July 2008 2,834,392 14,488,807 June 2008 2,522,515 12,837,873 May 2008 2,239,637 11,122,658 April 2008 2,053,826 11,436,278 March 2008 1,927,864 10,367,797 Notes: Explanation of terms Visits: the number of times a visitor has entered a website within a given timescale. Thus, multiple visits are recorded. Page impressions: also known as ‘hits’, this is when a website page is displayed on a visitor’s browser. To provide page hits for the other websites listed in the 4 February answer would incur disproportionate cost.