Site performance

We carefully monitor how many people are visiting our website as this helps us to develop popular areas of the site further and to investigate why some areas are not visited very often.

The table below gives an overview of our website's usage over the past six months:

Website usage over the past six months.
Page impressions (views)Unique visitors
February 20091,548,930112,215
January 20091,615,744111,080
December 2008959,22076,302
November 2008882,06593,643
October 2008635,92498,846
September 2008773,641110,637
August 2008655,990108,532

Performance

We aim to make our website available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There are occasions where it is necessary to carry out maintenance on the site which means our website is unavailable for short periods of time.

We have set a target for the site to be available at least 98.98 per cent of each calendar month.

During February 2009 the website was available 97.9 per cent of the time.

If you would like more detailed information, please email the eContent team.

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