Web site performance
Site status monitor
We use an independent site monitoring service provided by Axzona to ensure our web site is performing satisfactorily. Follow the link below for the past four weeks' monitoring reports;
Axzona site monitoring reports for Calderdale Council|
We intend that this service should be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, occasionally it may be unavailable for short periods to allow maintainance to take place. Our aim is to exceed 97% availability across a four week running average. If the web site has to be taken offline for longer periods we will try to ensure that advanced notice is given on the home page.
You can find out more about Axzona and about how these reports were collated at Axzona|.
Page views and visitor numbers
Each month the Council analyses the usage of this web site. The software system used to provide this analysis is Webtrends|. Results for recent monitored periods are as follows:
| Page views and visitor numbers | ||
|---|---|---|
| Month | Page views | Visitors |
| July 2008 | 1,650,712 | 59,617 |
| June 2008 | 1,409,969 | 62,331 |
| May 2008 | 1,461,069 | 63,826 |
| April 2008 | 1,501,110 | 61,289 |
| March 2008 | 1,258,655 | 59,094 |
| February 2008 | 1,279,177 | 54,863 |
| January 2008 | 1,390,226 | 50,953 |
| December 2007 | 1,087,653 | 41,116 |
| November 2007 | 1,265,494 | 51,076 |
| October 2007 | 1,272,776 | 46,969 |
| September 2007 | 992,437 | 43,556 |
| August 2007 | 1,254,649 | 44,569 |
| July 2007 | 1,191,009 | 43,683 |
| June 2007 | 1,025,187 | 46,502 |
| May 2007 | 1,041,234 | 43,822 |
| April 2007 | 903,853 | 34,155 |
| March 2007 | 1,097,736 | 39,184 |
| February 2007 | 689,935 | 32,481 |
Page views (also known as impressions) are used to measure web site usage, as this method is more meaningful than counting hits. Hits measure how many file requests a server receives, which can include images and scripts, whereas views are records of collective pages.
Link checking
We use our own link checking service to ensure that all the links on our site (15,322 at the last count, across 10,093 pages) are maintained in working order. Our aim is for zero broken links for those within our direct control (for instance, an external site may be temporarily 'down' due to technical reasons of its own).
If you find a link that doesn't work please let us know by contacting the Web site feedback.
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