30 May 2016
Top ranking for Hutt City Council website

Hutt City Council’s website huttcity.govt.nz is the best of its kind in the Wellington region and one of the five best council websites in the country.

Each year the Council’s website is ranked out of 78 run by New Zealand councils and local authorities. Last week it was newly ranked at No 5 by the Association of Local Government Information Management (ALGIM) at its Web and Digital Symposium in Wellington.

Hutt City Council was the only council in the Wellington region to make the top five. Last year ALGIM ranked the Council’s website at No 10.

Council Senior Web Advisor Sonja Cabrera says jumping to No 5 is a fantastic endorsement of changes and improvements to the website, which is the first contact many Lower Hutt residents have with Council.

“I’m so proud. It has an identity and has evolved over the years. It’s warm, colourful and content is easy to find,” she says.

“The public has high expectations and websites are changing every year. You can’t afford to get get left behind. It’s important to stay up to date.”

Ms Cabrera says Hutt City Council’s website was one of the first to let residents make online payments, bookings, sign up to services and report problems.

Visitor traffic to Council’s website has increased by 25 per cent in the past two years, while the number of visitors using mobile phones to visit the website has doubled in the past two years.

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