About this site
Site performance
We use the website monitoring, alerting and reporting service provided by Axzona to ensure our website is performing satisfactorily. These results were independently gathered by Axzona's geographically-dispersed monitoring agents to verify the availability and performance of our website from the most important point of view - that of our end-users.
Follow the link below to view the last four weeks' monitoring reports; (link will open in a new browser window).
Usage statistics
We use specialist software to report usage statistics for this website. Headline figures are shown in the table below.
| Period covered | Report | Totals |
|---|---|---|
| April-June 2008 | Total visits | 939,019 |
| Unique visitors | 464,310 | |
| Page views | 4,720,197 | |
| July-September 2008 | Total visits | 954,715 |
| Unique visitors | 493,368 | |
| Page views | 4,109,547 | |
| October-December 2008 | Total visits | 904,793 |
| Unique visitors | 463,798 | |
| Page views | 3,983,083 | |
| January-March 2009 | Total visits | 1,082,678 |
| Unique visitors | 547,707 | |
| Page views | 5,126,832 |
Definitions
Visit
A series of consecutive views of a web site by the same visitor. If the visitor does not view a new web page in the specified period of time, the next page viewed by that visitor is considered the start of a different visit.
Unique visitor
A distinct visitor to a web site. Regardless of how many times you visit a web site, you are only one unique visitor.
Page view
A hit to a web page, excluding error hits and hits to user-defined files such as inline images (.jpg, .gif, etc.), Java applets, and specific redirects.
Web Content Management
Most of the content on this site is managed by Live Link Web Content Management Server. This system enables service-based staff throughout the Council to maintain their information at local level.
Web publishing standards
Our web publishing standards exist to help all NCC staff who publish or who wish to publish information on the public internet. They have been developed by the e-Content Strategy Group and endorsed by CMB and the Access to Services Board. The web publishing standards are available to view online or in pdf format for printing.
Web publishing standards [PDF 73KB] 
Accessibility
We are committed to equalities and in line with this commitment, we strive to make our website accessible to all. An accessible site allows all users to access it, regardless of their browser, resolution, settings or eyesight.
Our website is designed to meet Government guidelines and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines v1.0.(WCAG) see www.w3.org.uk. Most pages conform with all priority 1 guidelines of WCAG and we are currently working towards priority 2.
Read our accessibility statement
You can also listen to our site.
Contact us
We are always working to improve our site and welcome your suggestions and comments.
If you encounter any accessibility or technical problems when using this site, please contact the e-Content Team:
e-mail: econtent@nottscc.gov.uk
