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 2009	1,548,930	112,215
January 2009	1,615,744	111,080
December 2008	959,220	76,302
November 2008	882,065	93,643
October 2008	635,924	98,846
September 2008	773,641	110,637
August 2008	655,990	108,532

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.