§ Mr. MooreTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many visits there have been to the website www.ukonline.gov.uk in each month since it was launched. [51516]
§ Mr. LeslieI have been asked to reply.
The UK online website (www.ukonline.gov.uk) was launched in January 2001. The table shows the number of visits that the site has received for each month since its launch, with the latest full month of figures being for March 2002.
Month and year Unique user sessions1 Page impressions2 Registered users January 2001 — — 5,588 February 2001 — 991,071 9,833 March 2001 — 1,635,728 14,125 April 2001 — 1,743,973 16,597 May 2001 — 2,038,984 19,602 June 2001 — 3,043,119 21,787 July 2001 — 4,120,772 24,034 August 2001 — 4,806,766 26,194 September 2001 — 4,036,503 29,718 October 2001 — 2,995.678 32,769 November 2001 322,721 3,696,221 37,063 December 2001 639,915 4,789,029 40,605 January 2002 632,450 4,912,704 43,010 February 2002 228,273 2,318,572 44,954 March 2002 418,114 2,605,319 48,933 (9.03) 1 This represents individual visitors to the site, and is tracked from a users IP address. For example, this means that if four people visit the site this week, we record that as four unique users. If each of these users visit twice, we still only have four unique users in that week. The complementary measure is number of visits (or sessions). 2 Page impressions are literally 'pages seen, or loaded onto the user's PC'. The home page is one page impressions, the news page is another etc.