1. Eurostat Internet site and one year of free dissemination
B Le Goff C Laevaert
WG Dissemination
10-11/11/2005, Eurostat - Luxembourg

2. After one year of free dissemination
Main trends and impact
Web design
Navigation tree
No data without metadata (SDDS)
Benchmarks
Challenges

3. Trends and impact (1) Number of users increased by 380%
93% of anonymous users extracting 50% of the cells
Download of electronic products increased by a factor of three
Number of extractions for NC increased by 328%

4. Trends and impact (2)
Extraction increased by a factor of 10 during the weekends
External trade extractions equal to a quarter of the monthly extractions of NC for all themes
Download of Predefined tables increased by 7%

5. Trends and impact (3) More than 70000 pages views for metadata
News releases represent one third of the monthly downloads
Online support shows a monthly figure of about 300 requests for Eurostat and 2000 for the NSI

6. Web design Home page 27 Thematic pages 430 services pages Alert me
Collection and product pages
Dedicated sections pages
Search pages etc..

7. Navigation tree integration
Converging towards an integrated corporate portal
5500 Fixed and open datasets became portal products like any publication and therefore are searchable through the web site

8. No data without metadata
New application managing the SDDS files
Special pages group on metadata
Very soon around 500 SDDS will become portal products and consequently searchable

9. First Benchmarking (results only with modified HP and TH pages)
Statistics Canada
Usability
90%
Professional Phase
EFFECTIVENESS
Maturity Phase
37 %
Exploring Phase
17% % %
Functionality
Eurostat made a good improvement, but could make an extra step

10. Second benchmarking Scheduled in December 2005
2nd Benchmark on usability and functionality with the new pages
Analysis of the changes proposed
Consolidated Report on changes and improvements (January 2006)
Broad consultation of the Eurostat Units
Incremental implementation of changes without basic modification of the site on line
New release of the web site in June 2006

11. Challenges (1)
Bulkdownload facilities (
Search engine and FIND functionalities

12. Possibility to search using keywords Match all /any
Enter free text to search
Single search / reset button
Allow for search within selected themes/collections
Limit the number of attributes to be searched
Match all/any selected themes
Allow search by date(s)

13. Add Link on Home Page
Find A-Z
Find A-Z

14. Between brackets is the number of publications/datasets available
User can select Letter
Between brackets is the number of publications/datasets available

15. Indication about datasets/publications per theme

16. Challenges (2)
Internet Cooperation with Member States on RSS, sharing XML data , common keywords system and release calendar
New user interface
Maps and graphics
OnLine Survey
Web Training
Simplification of the URL
Better integration of Comext aspects in the user support.

17. Thank you very much for your attention Any question?