Website City of Brussels attracts 95 percent more visitors than during the 2009 summer

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The website of the City of Brussels www.brussels.be was completely renewed in November 2008. Since the launch of this new version, the number of visitors is in constant growth. In 2009, the website received 1.270.941 visits. This figure was already exceeded in 2010: on 31 August, there were already 1.271.033 visits.

Between 1 July and 31 August 2010, the website of the City of Brussels received 406.687 visits, against 207.739 last summer. The number of the visits and visitors thus progressed with 95,8% with regard to the 2009 summer.

Summer searches

The site of the City knew 2 important peaks: with the Brussels stage of the Tour de France (17.505 visits on Sunday 4 July) and on the occasion of the National holiday (17.167 visit on Wednesday 21 July). The practical information concerning these events and the traffic measures was very popular.

The searches which lead to the website of the City of Brussels concern more than 110.000 keywords. The most important ones were: Tour de France, Brussels Beach, the Midi Fair, the Flower Carpet of the Grand-Place, '21 July', Brussels Summer Festival and the webcams and swimming pools. For example, the webcam of the Grand-Place was well used by the Internet users to admire the installation of the Flower Carpet.

Photo albums were added to remember the events of the summer (Flower Carpet, Meyboom, Brussels Summer Festival). Certain galleries were fed by spontaneous contributions of visitors.

Management of the site

The contents of the website are managed by a team of 3 persons (e-writers) at GIAL. Unique fact in Belgium as regards the municipal websites: all the contents (municipal news, administrative pages, agenda) are produced in Dutch, French and English.

The team of the Web Unit is supported by a webmaster, who assures the development of the content management system, and by other teams of GIAL, which watch the smooth running and the accessibility of the site.