The following table shows the number of page hits, visits and unique visitors by month to the Department’s website from April 2008 to March 2009.
The annual total of page hits for the year was 65,456,247. The annual total of visits for the year was 15,298,880.
A visit commences when a user, having opened their browser, loads a page for the first time. On closing their browser, the visit is ended. Thus a session can include multiple page hits.
The table also shows the number of unique visitors for each month. Unique visitors are visitors loading pages from the site during the specified time scale (in this case a calendar month). A unique visitor is counted once within the time scale, and can make multiple visits during the time scale.
Unique visitors in month Visits in month Page hits March 2009 1,033,680 1,532,397 6,383,331 February 2009 924,026 1,361,442 5,642,052 January 2009 1,017,122 1,507,257 6,205,364 December 2008 696,636 1,041,753 4,403,460 November 2008 874,024 1,278,086 5,578,886 October 2008 849,325 1,257,254 5,555,268 September 2008 772,629 1,126,097 4,717,921 August 2008 580,293 859,571 3,647,145 July 2008 806,832 1,226,589 5,122,615 June 2008 964,577 1,389,120 5,883,074 May 2008 914,972 1,316,806 5,842,608 April 2008 959,929 1,402,508 6,474,523