Almost 388 thousand visits among them were unique, which means that 388 thousand people used the resource. Comparing to the last year, website traffic increased one and a half times. Today 3000-3500 users read it a day, which is comparable to the city informational agencies’ traffic, leaves behind the rates of official sites of other regions and is comparable to Kiev only.
A new version of the site started its work on the 15th of April of 2011. For the first time a complete information of the city council officials, executive committee, district administrations have been presented.
“There is a list of emergency phone numbers, map of the city, complete base of nursery and secondary schools, higher educational institutions, medical, cultural and sports institutions, information about the municipal enterprises, subsidiaries, tariffs”, - the deputy director of the Department of information and public relations of the city council Olga Miroshnichenko told.
The site functions also became wider, users of social networks have got access to it.
“There are personal pages of our site in “Facebook”, “VKontakte”, “Twitter” and other social networks, where everyone is able to read our news. More users became our visitors as a result”, - Olga Miroshnichenko informed.
Video about life in Kharkiv also appears at «YouTube». They have been already watched more than 70 thousand times.
Besides in 2011 the site was adopted for starblinds, its English version began the work. The mobile version is available for portative devices users which was visited by more than 5000 users.
The news were the most popular last year – more than 400 thousand visits, 240 of them were unique. The most popular news were connected to the city holidays (Victory Day and the Day of the City), developing of the Strategy of Khakiv development until 2030, and the new bus routs net.
The second place was occupied by photo gallery which had more than 150 thousand attending, 90 thousand of them was unique. Pages with acts of the city council were also popular, search system was in use, and announcement of the events and vacancies were also watched.
Last year their appeared a possibility of online broadcasting of press-conferences and sessions of the city council at the website.
The first Internet-conference of the mayor of Kharkiv has passed where all the kharkovites were able to ask their questions. More than 600 users watched the conference online.