§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the total cost of his Department's website was in real terms in each of the last four years; and how many hits it received in each of those years. [36207]
§ 2001 Mr. LeslieThe information is as follows:
1. Total expenditure on design, hosting and security for the Cabinet Office website (http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk) over the past four years was:
£ 1998–99 17,000 1999–2000 10,500 2000–01 100,170 2001–02 12,337 These figures exclude VAT and staff costs. The significant increase in 2000–01 was due to security recovery following a successful hacking incident in July 2000.
2. In accordance with the Office of the E-envoy's Guidelines for UK Government websites, greater importance is given to the statistical features of page impressions and unique visitors rather than hits (which is recorded in both homepage and entire site amounts), therefore these criteria have also been supplied for the years in question (January to December unless where indicated):
- No recorded statistics/data
- (Recorded from April to December)
- Page impressions—185,073
- Unique visitors—1,276
- Hits for homepage—170,358
- Successful hits for entire site—187,303
- (Months of July to September not recorded due to hacking)
- Page impressions—I,237,709
- Unique visitors—67,745
- Hits for homepage—233,037
- Successful hits for entire site—1,933,738
559W
- Page impressions—7,172,623
- Unique visitors—424,596
- Hits for homepage—459,506
- Successful hits for entire site—12,588,868.