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 August 2019
Quick Facts Visits 124,862 Unique Visitors 85,138 Pageviews 479,964 Visits Per Day 4,028 Pages / Visit 3.84 Avg. Visit Duration 1:48 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 15,858 Library 12,524 News Details 9,141 Utilities 5,556 Junior Museum & Zoo 5,164 Site Search 3,298 Enjoy 2,986 Departments 2,940 Pay Parking Citations On-Line 2,597 Pearson-Arastradero Preserve 2,495 Children's Theatre 2,471 Utilities Outages 2,410 OverAir City Wireless 2,321 Police 2,131		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 santa clara county effective year built definition city of palo alto city council meetings palo alto utilities palo alto art center city of palo alto building department palo alto municipal code mitchell park palo alto palo alto enjoy online palo alto enjoy catalog palo alto free shuttle palo alto building department city of palo alto rail committee 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 30,270 Apple iPad 4,176 Microsoft Windows RT Tablet 819 Google Pixel 3 774 Google Pixel 2 621 Google Pixel 3 XL 441 Samsung SM-G960U 408 Unknown 392 Samsung SM-G950U 357 Google Pixel 2 XL 349 Samsung SM-G965U 275 Samsung SM-N960U 222 Samsung SM-N950U 208 Samsung SM-G955U 183 Google Pixel 176		This month, mobile devices accounted for 32% of website visits. Mobile devices users are an increasingly important website visitor segment.
Browsers Device Visits Chrome 53% Safari 30% 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%