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Departmental Internet

Volume 494: debated on Thursday 25 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 4 February 2009, Official Report, columns 1352-58W, on the departmental internet, how many (a) unique visitors and (b) page impressions were received by each website operated by his Department in each of the last 12 months. (280721)

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.