Website Statistics

Monthly usage and availability figures for this website, and information on our website usage survey.

Visits - Number of times a visitor came to the website based on log analysis.

If a visitor is idle longer than the idle-time limit, the figures assume the visit was voluntarily terminated. If the visitor continues to browse the site after they reach the idle-time limit, a new visit is counted. The default idle-time limit is thirty minutes.

Please note - As of January 2008 vists excludes where our images are referenced on other websites.

Up Time Availability - Percentage of time that the website has been available to view on the Internet.

Leicestershire County Council aims to ensure that this website is available 97.5% of the time.

The website is checked and the responses are recorded about 1,500 times a month. Response time thresholds are pre-set and if it does not respond within set limits, the monitor records this as "downtime". Any amount less than 100% indicates that the website had some downtime.

To find out more about our accessibility aims and objectives and how we are making this site more accessible, visit the Accessibility pages.

We conduct an online survey of website usage. This is used to gauge our service, collect demographic information and other information that we may find useful to help us improve the service provided by the website.

Results of the survey throughout 2008 (January to August) show that:

The survey is offered to 1 in 5 browsers of the website. The survey method deposits a cookie on visitors' computers. The cookie is used to count the total number of unique visitors who are accessing the website over a particular period of time and to identify web visitors who have already been offered the survey so that they are not prompted to participate a second time within any three month period.

These surveys are optional and we may share non-personal, aggregated information with third parties. For more information you may refer to the Leicestershire County Council Privacy Statement. The survey is provided by SOCITM (Society of Information Technology Management) and ROL.

If you wish to make any specific comments about this website please use the Website Feedback Form or email web@leics.gov.uk