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 February 2019
Quick Facts Visits 112,184 Unique Visitors 72,803 Pageviews 238,745 Visits Per Day 4,007 Pages / Visit 2.13 Avg. Visit Duration 2:3 min % New Visits 52%		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 14,407 Creek Levels 10,992 Library 10,542 News Details 7,028 Creek Monitor 5,248 Junior Museum & Zoo 4,927 Utilities 4,203 Children's Theatre 3,246 Animal Services 2,918 Site Search 2,868 Departments 2,490 OverAir City Wireless 2,306 Pay Parking Citations On-Line 2,184 Enjoy 1,899		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 creek monitor palo alto 6503292326 city of palo alto E-1 generation rate 0_40c38c4004-6c5501d300- palo alto california palo alto police department city of palo alto building department 4leaf palo alto contract C13149364 city of palo alto daytime population palo alto library palo alto building permits palo alto 2018 council priorities 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 25,895 Apple iPad 4,765 Microsoft Windows RT Tablet 811 Google Pixel 2 683 Samsung SM-G950U 437 Google Pixel 3 372 Google Pixel 2 XL 346 Unknown 344 Samsung SM-G960U 332 Samsung SM-G965U 288 Google Pixel 287 Google Pixel 3 XL 279 Samsung SM-N950U 244 Samsung SM-G955U 230 Motorola Moto X4 208		This month, mobile devices accounted for 32% of website visits. Mobile devices users are an increasingly important website visitor segment.
Browsers Device Visits Chrome 50% Safari 31% Internet Explorer 8% Firefox 5% Edge 2% Other 4%		As of May 2018, Wikipedia ranks global browser popularity: Chrome, 58% Safari, 14% Firefox, 5% IE, 3% Edge, 2%