REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS STATISTICAL SERVICE OF CYPRUS MONITORING REPORT ON THE WEBSITE OF THE STATISTICAL SERVICE OF CYPRUS DECEMBER The report is issued by the Monitoring Report STATISTICAL DISSEMINATION AND ICT SURVEYS SECTION
Monitoring Report Statistical Service of Cyprus Website December Monitoring report on the website of the Statistical Service of Cyprus December This report contains key tables and graphs that provide monthly information on access to the website of the Statistical Service of Cyprus. The first part contains information for all available months and the second part contains specific statistical data concerning the reporting month. It is noted that data is available from February onwards. Part 1: Comparative Overview 1.1 Number of Unique Visitors 1 In December the number of Unique Visitors was 4.171. After three months of consecutive increase, there was a significant decrease by 21%, compared to November. Probably this is due to the Christmas holidays. Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb Chart 1: Unique Visitors 2.598 3.592 3.663 4.171 4.524 5.28 4.959 4.674 4.863 4.273 6.49 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Unique Visitors 1 Unique Visitors - Number of Unique IP Addresses that visited the website during the month period. Even if the same IP Address visits the Web Site more than once, only the first visit is counted. IP Address is defined as a numeric address that is given to servers and users connected to the Internet. This IP address might be the same number each time you log on to the internet (called a static IP), or it might be a newly assigned number each time you connect, based on what's available. - 1 -
Monitoring Report Statistical Service of Cyprus Website December 1.2 Page 2 Views 3 Chart 2: Page Views Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb 29.35 37.515 35.716 37.623 23.551 26.427 26.684 3.47 29.954 34.25 29.457 5. 1. 15. 2. 25. 3. 35. 4. Page Views There was also a significant decrease in the number of the Page Views by 22% compared to November. 1.3 Average Pages Viewed Per Visit 4 Compared to November the number of Average Pages Viewed per Visit decreased, by 4%. Chart 3: Average Pages Viewed per Visit Dec Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May Apr Mar Feb 2,6 3,1 3,54 3,73 3,89 3,94 3,53 3,84 3,87 4,4 4,82, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Average Pages Viewed per Visit Following the trend of Unique Visitors, total number of visits reduced from 9.644 in November to 7.869 in December, showing a significant decrease by 18,4% (total number of visits can be calculated by dividing the number of the Page Views by the Average Pages per Visit). 2 Page - Short term for Web Page. A Web Page is a document created with HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) that is part of a group of similar documents available on the World Wide Web. Collectively, these documents form what is known as a website. 3 Page Views - A Page View is defined as a single request successfully served to view a Web Page. 4 Visits - Number of times the specified visitor visited the site. A Visit is a series of actions that begins when a visitor access a web page of the site for the first time, and ends when the visitor does not perform any actions within a 3 minute time interval - 2 -
Monitoring Report Statistical Service of Cyprus Website December 1.4 International Visits Vs. Local Visits Chart 4: International Visits Vs. Local Visits % 8 6 4 72,38 61,18 58,23 58,94 55,45 41,77 41,6 27,62 38,82 5,3 55,31 6,47 39,53 44,55 51,51 49,7 5,13 44,69 48,49 49,87 59,12 4,88 2 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Month As in all months of the report with the exception of September, International Visits were more than Local Visits with 59% and 41% respectively. Compared to November International Visits showed a very small decrease and consequently Local Visits showed increase. 1.5 Most Accessed File Types No. Month Xls Pdf doc ppt zip 1 February 6.122 1.37 43 29 28 2 March 8.168 1.362 56 38 34 3 April 6.59 1.277 51 24 24 4 May 6.8 1.29 14 38 3 5 June 5.575 1.27 48 2 18 6 July 5.735 984 22 2 11 7 August 4.589 763 49 8 15 8 September 7.497 1.335 16 1 21 9 October 7.327 1.988 61 5 32 1 November 7.47 2.189 31 19 17 11 December 5.936 1.338 21 3 9 xls: The number of Excel downloaded files was 5.936, showing a significant decrease by 2% compared to November. pdf: In December, after three moths of consecutive increase, there was a significant decrease by 39%, in the number of Adobe Acrobat downloaded files. doc: The number of Word downloaded files showed a significant decrease (for third consecutive month) by 32% compared to November. ppt & zip: Compared to the previous month, there was huge decrease in the number of PowerPoint and Zip downloaded files by 84% and 47% respectively. For Zip files the number was the smallest since February. - 3 -
Monitoring Report Statistical Service of Cyprus Website December 1.6 Overview of Specific Web Pages Demonstration of the following tables and graphs aim a thorough observation of specific Web Pages of the Statistical Service s Website. We are able to monitor the Release Calendar as well as the Publications in the Greek and English version of each page. 1.6.1 Release Calendar Ηµερολόγιο Ανακοινώσεων (Web Page in Greek) Month Views Visits Ranking (Visits - Top Pages) February 31 213 17 March 39 248 18 April 314 226 18 May 289 221 17 June 382 222 16 July 468 278 11 August 356 241 9 September 445 283 13 October 527 353 14 November 471 3 16 December 274 19 18 Chart 5: Ηµερολόγιο Ανακοινώσεων Visits 4 3 2 213 248 226 221 222 278 241 283 353 3 19 1 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Month In December the number of Views and the number of Visits of the Release Calendar in Greek observed significant decrease, compared to November, by 42% and 37% respectively. This resulted in the worst positioning in Top Pages ranking. - 4 -
Monitoring Report Statistical Service of Cyprus Website December Release Calendar (Web Page in English) Month Views Visits Ranking (Visits Top Pages) February 367 12 27 March 472 153 27 April 256 14 27 May 23 155 24 June 25 143 23 July 177 138 23 August 183 14 2 September 272 192 19 October 26 187 22 November 35 213 2 December 34 24 16 Chart 6: Release Calendar Visits 25 2 15 1 12 153 14 155 143 138 14 192 187 213 24 5 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Month Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec In contrast with the web page in Greek, Release Calendar in English was ranked in the best position for the whole period under examination, despite the fact that the number of Views and the number of Visits showed a small decrease. This occurred because total visits showed greater decrease and as result the Web Page had a better ranking compared to other Pages of the Website. - 5 -
Monitoring Report Statistical Service of Cyprus Website December 1.6.2 Publications Εκδόσεις (Web Page in Greek) Month Views Visits Ranking (Visits Top Pages) February 533 416 5 March 61 472 5 April 561 442 5 May 62 478 3 June 637 48 3 July 597 464 3 August 43 334 4 September 665 52 3 October 95 661 3 November 152 782 3 December 759 587 3 Visits 75 625 5 375 472 416 442 Chart 7: Εκδóσεις 478 48 464 334 52 661 782 587 25 125 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Month Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec The number of Visits and Views of Publications in Greek decreased significantly, after three months of consecutive increase. However the web page was still highly ranked in Top Pages ranking. - 6 -
Monitoring Report Statistical Service of Cyprus Website December Publications (Web Page in English) Month Views Visits Ranking (Visits Top Pages) February 385 314 1 March 395 37 15 April 476 361 11 May 46 39 1 June 419 325 8 July 366 281 1 August 334 262 7 September 442 341 1 October 495 386 1 November 567 438 7 December 449 345 8 Chart 8: Publications Visits 5 4 3 2 314 37 361 39 325 281 262 341 386 438 345 1 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Month Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Compared to November, Publications in English following the trend of the Web Page in Greek observed significant decrease in the number of Views and Visits by 2% and 21% respectively. These resulted in a lower ranking. - 7 -
Monitoring Report Statistical Service of Cyprus Website December Part 2: Statistical Data for December 2.1 Top 15 Pages Rank Web Page on Internet Visits Percentage 1 Εισαγωγική Σελίδα 2.63 12,31% 2 Home Page 1.911 8,95% 3 Εκδόσεις 587 2,75% 4 Τιµές και Πληθωρισµός 442 2,7% 5 Μεταφορές, Τουρισµός, Εµπόριο, Άλλες Υπηρεσίες 378 1,77% 6 Economy and Finance 356 1,67% 7 Αρχείο 346 1,62% 8 Publications 345 1,62% 9 Οικονοµία 332 1,55% 1 Βιοµηχανία, Κατασκευές 322 1,51% 11 Πληθυσµός και Κοινωνικές Συνθήκες 314 1,47% 12 Transport, Tourism, Trade, Other Services 292 1,37% 13 Prices and Inflation 265 1,24% 14 Εργασία 26 1,22% 15 Population and Social Conditions 245 1,15% 2.2 Top 15 Entry Pages 5 Rank Web Page on Internet Visits Percentage 1 Εισαγωγική Σελίδα 2.34 35,56% 2 Home Page 1.545 23,48% 3 Εκδόσεις 198 3,1% 4 Τιµές και Πληθωρισµός 14 2,13% 5 Economy and Finance 131 1,99% 6 Transport, Tourism, Trade, Other Services 13 1,57% 7 Μεταφορές, Τουρισµός, Εµπόριο, Άλλες Υπηρεσίες 12 1,55% 8 Prices and Inflation 99 1,5% 9 Βιοµηχανία, Κατασκευές 74 1,12% 1 Χάρτης Πλοήγησης 7 1,6% 11 Publications 63,96% 12 Population and Social Conditions 59,9% 13 Release Calendar 52,79% 14 Οικονοµία 47,71% 15 Industry, Construction 42,64% 5 Entry Page - The first page viewed during a visit to the web site. - 8 -
Monitoring Report Statistical Service of Cyprus Website December 2.3 Top 1 Themes Rank Theme (Greek & English Web Page on Internet) Visits Percentage 1 Home Page 4.541 21,26 2 Publications 932 4,37 3 Prices and Inflation 77 3,31 4 Economy and Finance 688 3,22 5 Transport, Tourism, Trade, Other Services 67 3,14 6 Population and Social Conditions 559 2,62 7 Archive 497 2,33 8 Industry, Construction 486 2,28 9 Labour 395 1,85 1 Release Calendar 394 1,85 2.4 Visits Trend through the Month The following chart demonstrates visits over the course of the report period. 44 4 36 32 28 24 2 16 12 8 4 Chart Visits Trend 9: Visits Trend 12/2 12/4 12/6 12/8 12/1 12/12 12/14 12/16 12/18 12/2 12/22 12/24 12/26 12/28 12/3 12/1 12/3 12/5 12/7 12/9 12/11 12/13 12/15 12/17 12/19 12/21 12/23 12/25 12/27 12/29 12/31 It is evident that, on Weekdays, the Web Site hosts considerably more visitors than on Weekends (see also table 2.6). - 9 -
Monitoring Report Statistical Service of Cyprus Website December 2.5 Most Active Date 6 Summary Most Active Date Tuesday, December 13, Number of Visits on Most Active Date 437 Number of Unique Visitors on Most Active Date 33 On most active date the Statistical Service of Cyprus announced Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices for November and Registration of Motor Vehicles January November. For second consecutive month, on most active date there was the announcement of Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices and from this it may be derived that users are showing increased interest for the particular index. 2.6 Visits by day of Week The table below shows the activity for each day of the week within the reporting month. The day with the most visits is shown in bold and italics. Day Visits Percentage Monday 1.198 15,22% Tuesday 1.385 17,6% Wednesday 1.167 14,83% Thursday 1.681 21,36% Friday 1.473 18,71% Saturday 491 6,24% Sunday 476 6,5% Total Weekend 967 12,29% Total Weekdays 6.94 87,71% Total 7.871 1,% Chart Visits 1: by Visits Day of by the Day Week of the Week 1.6 1.4 1.2 1. 8 6 4 2 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 6 Most Active Date - The specific date that had the largest number of visits. - 1 -
Monitoring Report Statistical Service of Cyprus Website December 2.7 Visits by Hour of the Day This following table illustrates activity for each hour of the day. It also demonstrates the most active (shown in bold and italics) and the least active (shown in italics) hours of the day for the report period. Hour Visits Percentage : :59 213 2,71% 1: 1:59 118 1,5% 2: 2:59 16 1,35% 3: 3:59 93 1,18% 4: 4:59 92 1,17% 5: 5:59 86 1,9% 6: 6:59 54,69% 7: 7:59 246 3,13% 8: 8:59 44 5,13% 9: 9:59 57 6,44% 1: 1:59 519 6,59% 11: 11:59 58 7,37% Hour Visits Percentage 12: 12:59 724 9,2% 13: 13:59 64 7,67% 14: 14:59 574 7,29% 15: 15:59 551 7,% 16: 16:59 496 6,3% 17: 17:59 417 5,3% 18: 18:59 342 4,35% 19: 19:59 295 3,75% 2: 2:59 243 3,9% 21: 21:59 237 3,1% 22: 22:59 28 2,64% 23: 23:59 162 2,6% Total Visits during Work Hours (8: - 17:) 4.959 63,% Chart Visits 11: by Hour Visits of the by Day Hour of the Day 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1: 3: 5: 7: 9: 11: 13: 15: 17: 19: 21: 23: : 2: 4: 6: 8: 1: 12: 14: 16: 18: 2: 22: - 11 -