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Site performance

We monitor website performance via:

• detailed website statistics
• website availability statistics
• popular search terms.

Website statistics

We use web analysis software to monitor our performance and show us how many people are looking at our site.

Through this, we can analyse visitor numbers and trends, assess the most popular sections of the website and monitor any errors or problems that may occur.

Web statistics 2013 - number of visits

January	February	March
230,399	170,750

Web statistics 2012 - number of visits

January	February	March
174,540	166,329	219,491
April	May	June
172,934	87,033	40,667
July	August	September
341,001	182,921	184,281
October	November	December
233,142	234,789	189,764

Website availability

We are committed to making sure our website is available to you all the time. In cases of unexpected downtime, we aim to have our site online as soon as possible.