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 April 2019
Quick Facts Visits 104,552 Unique Visitors 69,128 Pageviews 317,712 Visits Per Day 3,485 Pages / Visit 3.04 Avg. Visit Duration 2:2 min % New Visits 56%		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 14,529 Library 8,525 News Details 8,156 Utilities 4,120 Junior Museum & Zoo 3,904 Site Search 3,213 Departments 2,730 OverAir City Wireless 2,630 Animal Services 2,615 Great Race for Saving Water and Earth Day Festival 2,397 Pay Parking Citations On-Line 2,210 Children's Theatre 1,872 Pearson-Arastradero Preserve 1,859 Foothills Park 1,846		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 california komuna city of palo alto jobs palo alto downtown garage city of palo alto gas walking survey 2017 palo alto palo alto utilities palo alto city council agenda city of palo alto building department palo lato great race for saving water 2019 city of palo alto council palo alto building department palo alto planning sign off		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 24,265 Apple iPad 3,765 Microsoft Windows RT Tablet 886 Google Pixel 2 487 Google Pixel 3 348 Samsung SM-G950U 314 Unknown 293 Samsung SM-G960U 291 Google Pixel 2 XL 243 Google Pixel 3 XL 225 Samsung SM-G965U 200 Samsung SM-G955U 197 Google Pixel 183 Samsung SM-N950U 176 Samsung SM-N960U 172		This month, mobile devices accounted for of website visits. Mobile devices users are an increasingly important website visitor segment.
Browsers Device Visits Chrome 50% Safari 30% Internet Explorer 9% Firefox 5% Edge 3% Other 3%		As of May 2018, Wikipedia ranks global browser popularity: Chrome, 58% Safari, 14% Firefox, 5% IE, 3% Edge, 2%