NYSenate.

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Internet Analytics
Office of the CIO

This is the bi-weekly report on the New York State Senate’s web presence. Last week the website
received a total of 72527 visits, twice as much as the last reporting period. It had a bounce rate of 34%, 8
points lower than it’s long term average of 42%, and new visitors 64% of the time, nearly as high as the
long term average of 66%. This is very likely linked to the expected production of the budget.

The live webcasting of session has drawn just over 582281 views since it’s adoption and the archived
footage has followed that growth very closely. The NYSenate Livestream and Youtube channels continue
to spar for most viewed and Youtube has fallen slightly behind with 581831 overall visits. The short clips
on the NYSenate Youtube account are about 12 times more watched than the full videos of session and
events posted on the nysenateuncut account.

Using social media the Senators now reach a total of 26007 people through Facebook accounts linked to
NYSenate.gov and 10872 through Twitter accounts linked to NYSenate.gov. These numbers are lower
than the last reporting period, especially Twitter which fell by half. This may be due to Senators unlisting
their accounts on NYSenate.gov so that they may be used for political purposes. The NYSenate account
itself currently reaches over 3641 people through it’s Twitter account

For real-time analytics, as well as replays of the last week or month from Chartbeat please visit
http://chartbeat.com/dashboard/?url=nysenate.gov&k=2148a081ba25447037482d364b787d6e.

These real time analytics show how many people are on the website at a given moment, whether they are
filling out a form, reading material or are idle. It can also gauge how popular a given piece of content is
site-wide at a particular time. Because of it's real-time tracking Chartbeat can also gather information
about website performance and there is no waiting for data.
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H o m ep ag e S un M on Tue s W e d Thurs Fri S at Sun M on Tues W e d Thurs Fri Sat Total

P ageV iews 7 74 28 7 8 28 4 0 137 2 42 5 2 03 7 5 18 13 3273 3392 2214 56 2149 720 2 3 42 6
Unique P ageV iews 5 52 20 5 5 20 3 6 9 9 1 75 5 1 44 9 3 69 10 2302 2393 1551 35 1517 524 1 6 64 7
B ounc es 1 47 4 45 4 57 29 388 26 7 82 5 506 522 324 12 345 153 36 8 2
New V is itors 3 23 8 92 8 81 70 812 67 4 2 18 6 998 1099 719 11 746 309 77 5 8
Website Traffic, Uptime, and
Responsiveness - As of: 5/8/2010
Traffic

Traffic peaked at 229 visitors simultaneously week.

No traffic alerts were triggered

Uptime
The site was up 98.10% of the time
6 uptime alerts were tiggered

Responsiveness
The average server load time was 2.7 seconds and average user load
time was 3.6 seconds
No responsiveness alerts were triggered

Website Top Content - As of 5/8/2010

Type Rank Page Caption
Most Popular 1 http://www.nysenate.gov/news/seward-meets- Seward Meets With Herkimer
herkimer-chamber Chamber
Most Popular 2 http://www.nysenate.gov/video/2009/aug/06/senat Senator Diaz on School Governance -
or-diaz-school-governance-august-6-2009 August 6, 2009
Most Popular 3 http://www.nysenate.gov/news/city-state-elected- City, State Elected Officials Call For
officials-call-answers-con-edison-steam-pipe- Answers On Con Edison Steam Pipe

Most Emailed 1 http://www.nysenate.gov/webform/say-no-new- Say NO To New Plates

plates
Most Emailed 2 http://www.nysenate.gov/news/restore-my-new- Restore my New York STAR Check
york-star-check-online-petition Online Petition.
Most Emailed 3 http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/fight-new- FIGHT NEW TAXES ON DRIVING
taxes-driving

Most Commented 1 http://www.nysenate.gov/blogs/2009/jun/17/biparti Bipartisan Operating Agreements for

san-operating-agreements-tied-legislatures- Tied Legislatures in Other States and
other-states-and-us-senate in the U.S. Senate
Most Commented 2 http://www.nysenate.gov/markup/bill-s1836-half- Read and Comment on Bill S1836
day-shifts-election-inspectors/read-and-
comment-bill-s1836
Most Commented 3 http://www.nysenate.gov/markup/bill-draft-clean- Bill Draft: Clean Election System
election-system
 Ideas from Citizens - 4/25/2010 - 5/8/2010

Campaign Finance Ideas Comments Total Votes

This Week
To Date 53 18 1639
http://campaignfinanceideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/2694- We need public financing for true democracy
4052 (90)
http://campaignfinanceideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/2631- voluntary public financing must happen this
Top 3 Ideas
4052 session (80)
http://campaignfinanceideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/2696-
Clean Elections (80)
4052
http://campaignfinanceideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/6735- Nothing less than a Full Clean Elections
4052 process (2)
http://campaignfinanceideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/6496- Public financing PLUS short campaing
Bottom 3 Ideas
4052 period (2)
http://campaignfinanceideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/6291-
How about no money at all?
4052

Ethics Reform Ideas Comments Total Votes

This Week
To Date 12 5 52

http://ethicsideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/2369-4058 Financial Disclosure (7 votes)

Top 3 Ideas http://ethicsideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/3181-4058 Insurance Company Donations (7 votes)

http://ethicsideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/3624-4058 Public Disclosure (5 votes)

When Will New York's Legislature Take

http://ethicsideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/16208-4058
Action to Overrule O'Brien vs. O'Brien And
Eliminate Equitable Distribution Awards
Bottom 3 Ideas http://ethicsideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/3622-4058 Clear guidelines for Officials (-1 votes)

http://ethicsideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/15509-4058 New Law Students

Property Taxes Ideas Comments Total Votes

This Week
To Date 38 61 5316
Krueger Omnibus Circuit Breaker
http://propertytaxideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/1872-3904
S4239 (373 votes)
THE OMNIBUS CIRCUIT BREAKER -SEN. KRUEGER'S THE OMNIBUS CIRCUIT BREAKER -SEN.
Top 3 Ideas
BILL4239 (305 votes) KRUEGER'S BILL4239 (305 votes)

http://propertytaxideas.nysenate.gov/a/dtd/2015-3904 Krueger Omnibus Circuit Breaker S4239

Propery Taxes need to be capped (-108

http://propertytaxideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/1980-3904
votes)

Bottom 3 Ideas http://propertytaxideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/1707-3904 Set Tax per Amount of Property (-103 votes)

http://propertytaxideas.nysenate.gov/akira/dtd/1979-3904 Propery Taxes need to be capped (-97 votes)

 Online Video - As of 5/8/2010
Live Video - as of 5/8/2010
Average Time Total Unique
Total Viewer Minutes Total Visits Bounce Rate New Visitors
on Channel Viewers

6269520 582281 11 64% 194229 33%

Livestream Visitor Breakdown

New Visitors
Repeat Visitors

YouTube as of 5/8/2010
Social Media - As of 5/8/2010
Channel Video Views Channel Views Subscribers Last Week's Most Popular
NYSenate 581831 24623 305 Senator Kevin Parker in Session 5/3/10
NY SenateUncut 49312 11177 95 NYS Senate Finance Committee 04/27/10
Total Change Over Average NY Senate
Facebook Accounts
Friends + Fans Last Report Friends / Fans Fans
35 26,007 -430 743.1 0

Top 3 Users
Fans Change Over Last Report
(based on fans)

Savino, Diane J. 5340 -56

Peralta, José 2365 +139
Serrano, Jose M. 1924 +58
 Average
@mentions Average #
# of Total Total # of Average @Mentions #NYSenate
Twitter Accounts Followers Updates
(in last of
Updates (in last Hits
week) Followers
Week)
17 10872 2738 22 639.5 161.1 1.3 13
Top 3 Users
(based on Followers
followers)
nysenate 3641
nysenatecio 1258
senmartygolden 1077
 Web Development - As of 5/8/2010

Website Development Total Currently Open Closed Percent Closed

Bugs 331 164 167 50%

Feature 281 153 128 46%
Enhancements 106 86 20 19%

Enhancements

Feature

Bugs

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180