Council website attracts record numbers

By The Newsroom
Published 11th Nov 2011, 13:06 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 19:28 BST
A record number of people are using the Arun District Council website.

New figures show more than half of the customers who contact the local authority are choosing the internet to do so.

The proportion logging on to www.arun.gov.uk has risen from 41 per cent this time last year to 60 per cent.

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There were more than 112,000 customer hits to the site in the first six months of the year alone.

The most popular pages are planning, refuse, council tax, environmental health, jobs and the daily news items. Each receive thousands of hits every day. The number of people accessing the site with smart phones and iPads is also the highest it has been.

More than 9,000 of the total 112,203 hits were from mobile devices.