The information is as follows:
Page impressions and unique visitors for the last 12 months—The Department’s website at:
www.dh.gov.uk
Unique visitors Page impressions May 2009 957,734 5,479,933 April 2009 969,412 5,753,565 March 2009 1,033,680 6,383,331 February 2009 924,026 5,642,052 January 2009 1,017,122 6,205,364 December 2008 696,636 4,403,460 November 2008 874,024 5,578,886 October 2008 849,325 5,555,268 September 2008 772,629 4,717,921 August 2008 580,293 3,647,145 July 2008 806,832 5,122,615 June 2008 964,577 5,883,074
Page impressions and unique visitors—The Department’s advisory bodies website for the last 12 months at:
www.advisorybodies.doh.gov.uk
Unique visitors Page impressions May 2009 20,370 130,202 April 2009 20,791 119,795 March 2009 22,928 151,785 February 2009 19,481 133,699 January 2009 20,647 143,423 December 2008 19,872 156,840 November 2008 26,276 181,291 October 2008 26,374 190,170 September 2008 20,636 133,031 August 2008 18,387 126,039 July 2008 22,968 137,455 June 2008 30,723 147,110
Page impressions and unique visitors for the last 12 months—NHS Choices website.
Page impressions from November 2008 onwards differ to those given in the answer of 4 February 2009 as these now include visitors and page impressions at:
www.selfhelpguide.nhs.uk
which is hosted by NHS Direct although branded NHS Choices at:
www.nhs.uk
Unique visitors Page impressions May 2009 5,295,640 32,013,540 April 2009 4,458,415 28,369,471 March 2009 5,189,162 33,998,656 February 2009 4,300,217 29,763,052 January 2009 4,264,746 29,422,915 December 2008 3,125,976 21,123,054 November 2008 3,231,224 22,916,827 October 2008 2,421,293 14,362,161 September 2008 2,068,380 12,982,408 August 2008 2,017,496 13,004,201 July 2008 2,154,660 14,488,807 June 2008 1,933,770 12,837,873 Notes: Unique visitors: the number of unique visitors that have entered a website within a given timescale. Thus, multiple visits within that given timescale are not recorded. Page impressions: also known as ‘hits’, this is when a website page is displayed on a visitor’s browser. To provide the number of unique visitors and page hits for all other websites listed in the answer of 4 February 2009 would incur disproportionate costs.