Open Data Website Traffic: Daily Sessions and Users for Los Angeles Portals

Daily utilization metrics for the City of Los Angeles's open data portals, data.lacity.org and geohub.lacity.org, updated monthly. The dataset tracks user engagement through metrics like sessions, users, and bounce rates for each platform. It provides a time-series view of public interaction with municipal open data resources.

Use Cases

• Analyzing portal engagement trends over time using the Date column.
• Comparing user volume between the Socrata and Geohub platforms using Socrata Users and Geohub Users.
• Assessing visitor retention quality by examining Socrata Bounce Rate and Geohub Bounce Rate.
• Calculating total combined platform reach using the Combined Users column.

Strengths

• Provides a detailed daily time series for two distinct municipal data platforms.
• Contains specific, actionable web analytics columns like sessions, users, and bounce rates.
• Cross-platform presence on Socrata and Data.gov suggests official importance and curation.

Limitations

• Conflicting metadata: one source shows a last update of 2025-06-21, while another shows 2020-11-30, creating uncertainty about freshness.
• Incomplete metadata on some platforms, with missing row counts, file sizes, and author information.
• The dataset's description is identical across sources but lacks detail on data collection methodology.

Provenance

Source

City of Los Angeles

Collection Method

Likely gathered from web analytics tools tracking the specified municipal portals.

Freshness

2025-06-21 18:07:59.525160

Geography

City of Los Angeles, California, USA