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 December 2018
Quick Facts Visits 95,136 Unique Visitors 66,594 Pageviews 195,230 Visits Per Day 3,069 Pages / Visit 2.05 Avg. Visit Duration 1:56 min % New Visits 57%		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 12,502 Library 10,396 News Details 7,515 Utilities 4,282 Junior Museum & Zoo 4,246 Children's Theatre 3,237 Animal Services 2,985 Site Search 2,582 Animal Adoption 2,332 Pay Parking Citations On-Line 2,231 Departments 2,149 Enjoy 2,072 OverAir City Wireless 1,878 Curbside Services 1,838		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 utilities palo alto library city of palo alto line clearing palo alto building department city of palo alto building department palo alto school district safe route to school enjoy online city of palo alto palo alto city council city of palo alto bid foothill park palo alto ca city of palo alto utility standards CITY OF PALO ALTO palo alto children's theatre		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 22,242 Apple iPad 3,335 Google Pixel 2 649 Microsoft Windows RT Tablet 562 Samsung SM-G950U 422 Google Pixel 2 XL 346 Google Pixel 297 Unknown 287 Samsung SM-N950U 273 Google Pixel 3 267 Samsung SM-G960U 245 Samsung SM-G955U 217 Samsung SM-G965U 207 Samsung SM-G930V 196 Google Pixel XL 177		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 9% Firefox 5% Edge 2% Other 3%		As of May 2018, Wikipedia ranks global browser popularity: Chrome, 58% Safari, 14% Firefox, 5% IE, 3% Edge, 2%