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 May 2019
Quick Facts Visits 108,650 Unique Visitors 72,047 Pageviews 429,919 Visits Per Day 3,505 Pages / Visit 3.96 Avg. Visit Duration 1:58 min % New Visits 55%		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 16,572 Library 9,248 News Details 8,872 Junior Museum & Zoo 4,015 Utilities 3,934 Site Search 3,274 Children's Theatre 2,859 Departments 2,725 OverAir City Wireless 2,487 Pay Parking Citations On-Line 2,085 Summer Camps 1,842 Pearson-Arastradero Preserve 1,799 Human Resources 1,664 Police 1,652		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 palo alto tree line usa the city of palo alto historic inventory palo alto california palo alto utilities city of palo alto council palo lato great race for saving water 2019 palo alto gathering permit city of palo alto building department city of palo alto make x city of palo alto msa\ palo alto art center		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 25,395 Apple iPad 3,766 Microsoft Windows RT Tablet 899 Google Pixel 2 450 HTC Pixel 3 443 Samsung SM-G950U 343 Unknown 314 Samsung SM-G960U 302 HTC Pixel 3 XL 263 Google Pixel 2 XL 259 Samsung SM-G955U 227 Samsung SM-G965U 223 Samsung SM-N950U 203 Samsung SM-N960U 171 Google Pixel 162		This month, mobile devices accounted for of website visits. Mobile devices users are an increasingly important website visitor segment.
Browsers Device Visits Chrome 51% Safari 30% Internet Explorer 7% Firefox 5% Edge 2% Other 5%		As of May 2018, Wikipedia ranks global browser popularity: Chrome, 58% Safari, 14% Firefox, 5% IE, 3% Edge, 2%