Senate Tech

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. This period the website received a total of 60752 visits, a bit up since last the last report. It had a bounce rate of 59%, the same as last report, and higher than the long term average of 43%. The website had new visitors 67% of the time, one point less than in the last report and more than the long term average of 66%.

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Weekly Report 8-14-10.doc

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Analytics 8-14-10.xls

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 64855 visits, a substantial 30,000 visit drop since last the last report. This is most likely due to the fact that August is a very slow month generally. It had a bounce rate of 55% a small increase and higher than the long term average of 43%. The website had new visitors 67% of the time, more than in last report and more than the long term average of 66%.

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Weekly Report 7-17-10.doc

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Analytics 7-17-10.xls

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 95740 visits, more than a 8,000 visit increase over last the last report. It had a bounce rate of 50% a large increase and higher than the long term average of 42%. The website had new visitors 58% of the time, less than in last report and less than the long term average of 66%. The continuation of this high level of attention is likely linked to the delayed budget.

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Weekly Report 7-3-10.doc

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Analytics 7-3-10.xls

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 76777 visits, the highest amount since traffic to the website picked up in the last three reports. It had a bounce rate of 33%, returning to the 9 point difference with the long term average from two periods ago. The website had new visitors 60% of the time, less than in last report and less than the long term average of 66%. The continuation of this high level of attention is likely linked to the expected production of the budget.

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Weekly Report 6-5-10.doc

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Analytics - 6-5-10.xls

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 72527 visits, twice as much as the last reporting period. It had a bounce rate of 34%, 8 points lower than it’s long term average of 42%, and new visitors 64% of the time, nearly as high as the long term average of 66%. This is very likely linked to the expected production of the budget.

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Analytics - 5-8-10.xls

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Weekly Report 5-8-10.doc

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 31897 visits, reversing it's downward trend in traffic from the end of February. It had a bounce rate of 38%, 4 points lower than it’s long term average of 42%, and new visitors 60% of the time, lower than the long term average of 66%. It seems that returning visitors who are looking for specific content are continuing to make up a sizable portion of visitors keeping the bounce rate and new visitors percentage relatively low.

The live webcasting has drawn just over 577483 views since it’s adoption and the archived footage has followed that growth very closely. The NYSenate Youtube channel's attention has slightly outpaced Livestream with 571469 overall visits.

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Weekly Report 4-24-10.doc

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Analytics - 4-24-10.xls

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 36221 visits. It had a bounce rate of 49%, higher than it’s long term average of 43%, and new visitors 63% of the time, higher than the long term average of 67%, and five points lower than the last report.

The live webcasting of session has drawn 567432 views since it’s adoption and the archived footage has followed that growth very closely. The NYSenate Youtube channel's attention has been slightly outpaced by Livestream with 561368 overall visits. The short clips on the NYSenate Youtube account are about 17 times more watched than the full videos of session and events posted on the nysenateuncut account.

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Weekly Report 3-27-10.doc

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Analytics 3-27-10.xls

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 54805 visits, up by nearly 1,00 since the last report and 2,200 over the last month. It had a bounce rate of 53%, higher than it’s long term average of 42%, and new visitors 70% of the time, higher than the long term average of 67%, and one point higher than the last report. The all time graph at the bottom of the first page shows that the average level of website activity has risen since the commencement of session in January and is experiencing similar amounts of activity as it experienced last year during session.

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Weekly Report - 2-27-10.doc

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Analytics - 2-27-10_0.xls

1/30/10

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website received a total of 33787 visits. It had a bounce rate of 53%, higher than it’s long term average of 41%, and new visitors 72% of the time, higher than the long term average of 66%. The all time graph at the bottom of the first page shows that the average level of website activity has risen since the commencement of session in January.

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Weekly Report 1-30-10.doc

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Analytics 1-30-10.xls