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Metro website stats archive and current month's figures (Siteimprove website)
Definitions
The following definitions are used by Siteimprove to explain the terminology:
Page views
“Page views” is the number of times a page has been viewed within a chosen time period. Page views and page impressions are often used interchangeably, and refer to the same event: a user displaying a page of your website in a browser (eg. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari).
Unique visitor
A unique visitor/user is created when a user visits the site for the first time and a cookie is set. This enables the system to distinguish between new users (where a cookie was not registered) and a returning user. Use of cookies
Monthly web figures - 2011
| Month | Page views | Unique users | New users |
| Dec | 1,424,779 | 320,049 | 245,127 |
| Nov | 1,304,447 | 271,917 | 202,445 |
| Oct | 1,315,764 | 265,857 | 196,958 |
| Sept | 1,464,352 | 278,888 | 209,944 |
| Aug | 1,356,873 | 261,298 | 194,469 |
| July | 1,280,374 | 254,042 | 187,961 |
| June | 1,215,086 | 243,160 | 180,107 |
| May | 1,270,364 | 249,820 | 185,121 |
| April | 1,309,472 | 247,406 | 184,323 |
| March | 1,215,987 | 245,687 | 184,414 |
| Feb | 1,164,324 | 229,843 | 169,445 |
| Jan | 1,332,352 | 252,830 | 188,025 |
Monthly web figures - 2010
| Month | Page views | Unique users | New users |
| Dec | 2,182,642 | 398,146 | 308,394 |
| Nov | 1,419,741 | 276,422 | 213,571 |
| Oct | 1,273,614 | 247,642 | 191,717 |
| Sept | 1,334,661 | 248,717 | 193,449 |
| August | 1,302,349 | 238,282 | 184,647 |
| July | 1,278,827 | 239,399 | 186,584 |
| June | 1,078,602 | 215,133 | 166,381 |
| May | 1,102,009 | 216,847 | 167,904 |
| April | 1,216,629 | 222,176 | 171,981 |
| March | 1,188,924 | 185,150 | 133,536 |
| February | 1,158,211 | 208,892 | 160,057 |
| January | 2,299,899 | 452,800 | 385,813 |
Monthly web figures - 2009
| Month | Page views | Unique users | New users |
| December | 1,421,014 | 204,527 | 152,227 |
| November | 1,001,539 | 161,813 | 119,391 |
| October | 1,002,601 | 161,035 | 120,786 |
| Sept | 811,806 | 130,065 | 94,528 |
| August | 1,014,011 | 158,084 | 117,956 |
| July | 1,091,270 | 160,218 | 120,107 |
| June | 927,224 | 144,727 | 108,394 |
| May | 911,539 | 144,477 | 112,587 |
| April | 975,322 | 182,448 | 153,973 |
| March | 860,510 | 177,951 | 150,223 |
| February | 1,111,901 | 210,067 | 179,554 |
| January | 921,526 | 168,999 | 143,395 |
