From Bob Crawshaw at Maine Consulting:
Australia has around 6500 government websites and these account for 2.4% of all Australian online visits – higher than the US (1.7%) and the UK (0.9%).Federal Government websites account for 60% of all visits, State Government websites accounted for 29.7% visits while 6.2% of visits went to Local Government sites.
In March 2009, the top Commonwealth sites:
- Bureau of Meteorology
- Centrelink
- Australian Taxation Office
- Australian Job Search
- Australian Taxation Office – Tax Agent Portal
The most popular State Government websites were:
- Victoria Country Fire Authority
- CityRail
- Roads and Traffic Authority NSW
- Better Health Channel
- Transport Infoline
With the top Local Government sites being:
- ourbrisbane.com
- Brisbane City Council
- Gold Coast City Council
- City of Sydney.
- City of Melbourne
