The new Eurostat website Åsa Önnerfors Eurostat unit E4 WG on Regional, Urban and Rural Development statistics – 2014 October

A new Eurostat website Eurostat is in the process of migrating its website to a new technical platform (Liferay). The aim of the migration is also to strengthen the user-orientation and make the content easier to understand. The new website is planned to be released in a couple of months' time. October 2014

The current Eurostat website – some key figures for 2013 Has on average more than 2 million visitors per month (around 24 million visitors per year), when counting the number of "user sessions". This is an increase of 21.5% compared to 2012. 5.7 million downloaded publications (increase of 15.8 % compared to 2012). 5,8 million database extractions (increase of 14.4% compared to 2012). October 2014

Objectives for the new website: A more attractive design: more interactive / dynamic, more colours, more photos. Facilitate access to our statistics: better access to most popular datasets and to cross-cutting topics, improved search functions. Help users to understand our statistics: interactive data visualisations tools, like RSI. Daily content management of the website: to keep content lively and coherent. October 2014

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Suggestions on search items as you type (fill in). Improved search: Suggestions on search items as you type (fill in). Filter by: Theme / Publication date / Collection. Sort by: Relevance / Publication date. Built in synonym control. October 2014

Interactive data visualisations (like the RSI) will be integrated in the dedicated sections to quickly give an impression of the data of each topic. October 2014

New infographics on popular topics October 2014

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Contact: asa.onnerfors@ec.europa.eu October 2014