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 June 2019
Quick Facts Visits 130,060 Unique Visitors 90,763 Pageviews 491,193 Visits Per Day 4,335 Pages / Visit 3.78 Avg. Visit Duration 1:46 min % New Visits 61%		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 23,993 Library 11,790 News Details 10,066 Utilities 5,701 Utilities Outages 5,386 Junior Museum & Zoo 4,778 Site Search 3,350 Departments 2,803 Children's Theatre 2,801 Twilight 2,525 OverAir City Wireless 2,518 Summer Hot Dog Productions 2,460 Pay Parking Citations On-Line 2,220 Pearson-Arastradero Preserve 2,027		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 the city of palo alto historic inventory palo alto utilities palo lato great race for saving water 2019 palo alto library palo alto municipal code city of palo alto msa\ comprehensive annual finacial report palo alto city of palo alto building department ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT PALO ALTO city of palo alto budget childrens-theatre.org city of palo alto jobs palo alto city council		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 31,275 Apple iPad 4,006 Microsoft Windows RT Tablet 873 Google Pixel 2 649 Unknown 560 Samsung SM-G960U 499 Samsung SM-G950U 476 Google Pixel 3 473 Google Pixel 2 XL 363 Samsung SM-G965U 313 Google Pixel 3 XL 260 Samsung SM-G955U 260 Samsung SM-N950U 256 HTC Pixel 3 255 Google Pixel 215		This month, mobile devices accounted for 32% of website visits. Mobile devices users are an increasingly important website visitor segment.
Browsers Device Visits Chrome 49% Safari 29% Firefox 10% Internet Explorer 6% Edge 2% Other 4%		As of May 2018, Wikipedia ranks global browser popularity: Chrome, 58% Safari, 14% Firefox, 5% IE, 3% Edge, 2%