As part of the City's ongoing commitment to improve the City website, staff enlisted a group of community volunteers to serve on a Website Advisory Committee with the goal of producing a set of recommendations to address concerns raised by citizens and enhance the overall website user-experience. The Website Advisory Committee, comprised of a select group of dedicated community volunteers, has met regularly during the past three years to help City staff with the creation of our present website.

Below you will find statistics about the performance of this site. The statistics are updated on a monthly basis for the prior month's activity. To the left are buttons to take you to information about the ongoing maintenance of this website, Ways to contact the City of Palo Alto about this website, and legal information.

Data For Month of July 2019
Quick Facts Visits 124,205 Unique Visitors 84,782 Pageviews 479,052 Visits Per Day 4,007 Pages / Visit 3.86 Avg. Visit Duration 1:45 min % New Visits 58%		The "Quick Facts" section provides "at a glance" information about this website. Note: When somebody comes to this website, that constitutes a "visit". If the same person (from the same computer) visits again, that visit is counted again, but the "Unique Visitors" number does not increment, it counts two visits from the same computer in a certain period as one visit.
Top Pages Page Unique Views Home 15,921 Library 11,779 News Details 11,649 Junior Museum & Zoo 5,446 Utilities 4,935 Site Search 3,261 Summer Hot Dog Productions 3,031 OverAir City Wireless 2,871 Departments 2,841 Twilight 2,790 Children's Theatre 2,775 Foothills Park 2,380 Pearson-Arastradero Preserve 2,318 Pay Parking Citations On-Line 2,242		With website metrics, a trend is generally more useful than any one snapshot in time. This information can be very useful in helping City Staff to determine what information visitors are looking for the most. The Home Page of this site has a "Most Popular" corner, but it is a curated list, whereas these results are based on raw data.
Top Referring Keywords city of palo alto the city of palo alto historic inventory palo alto utilities palo alto utilities engineering city of palo alto building department city of palo alto budget city of palo alto rail committee meeting palo alto rinconada picnic area reservation palo alto municipal code palo alto art center palo alto transit map palo alto city council palo alto parcel report palo alto airport		When visitors come to the website as a result of a Google search, analytics captures the terms the visitor entered to find the site. This report helps City Staff determine visitor's interests in both the short (monthly) and long (annual) term. New site content is one outcome of analysis of this report. Another outcome is the addition of keywords to commonly sought after pages to make them more easily found by a search.
Mobile Devices Device Visits Apple iPhone 31,168 Apple iPad 4,221 Microsoft Windows RT Tablet 845 Google Pixel 3 669 Google Pixel 2 649 Google Pixel 2 XL 457 Unknown 444 Samsung SM-G950U 439 Google Pixel 3 XL 432 Samsung SM-G960U 421 Samsung SM-G965U 314 Samsung SM-N950U 239 Samsung SM-G955U 234 Samsung SM-N960U 234 Samsung SM-G930V 183		This month, mobile devices accounted for 34% of website visits. Mobile devices users are an increasingly important website visitor segment.
Browsers Device Visits Chrome 52% Safari 31% Internet Explorer 7% Firefox 4% Edge 2% Other 4%		As of May 2018, Wikipedia ranks global browser popularity: Chrome, 58% Safari, 14% Firefox, 5% IE, 3% Edge, 2%