To begin the presentation, and our new website is up and running.

Yes, it is, Madam Mayor.

Thank you for having us, Deputy Mayor, and all council members.

We're happy to be here as the project has mostly culminated, and I'm not going to be doing the talking.

We've got Enjo Wong, the assistant director of IT here for emotional support and tech support.

But I'd like to hand it over to digital manager Golden Doles, who will give you all the stats.

All right, afternoon, Mayor and Council.

As Amy said, my name is Golden Doles, and I am the digital manager with the Media and Communications Office.

And we are here today and excited to announce that we have launched Tacoma.gov.

It's the new citywide website.

We launched on April 30th.

So it's been about six weeks now that the site has been up and running.

Happy to report also too that the migration and the site launch was successful thanks to our IT team who worked overnight to make sure everything went smoothly and transitioned over from our old cityoftacoma.org website to Tacoma.gov.

About a week later, after we launched the site, our email addresses also changed to Tacoma.gov, and that all went smooth and successful as well.

In the first six weeks, we did want to share just some of our high-level analytics from what we've seen in the first about month and a half.

We've had about 126,000 people already come and visit our website.

We've had 350,000 page views, and we've had an user engagement of over 208,000.

So that means people are not just coming to visit pages, but they're going through, they're clicking around, they're looking at our documents, they're filling out our forms, or uh downloading some of our documentation on our site.

We're also interested in looking at how people are visiting our site.

So we're about 60-40, so 60% of people are still visiting our website on a desktop computer, and about 40% on mobile devices.

Um then also to a couple people using their tablets and even a couple people uh accessing it on a smart TV.

And then I just wanted if you haven't seen the site, here are just a couple of the new features on Tacoma.gov.

And we have an enhanced user experience.

We really wanted to make sure that the navigation was easier and more intuitive to get around when you're trying to look for information.

We also wanted to make sure that our design was more modernized and looked more like the 21st century.

It'd been about 13 years since we last redid our website, so it was looking a little old, so we wanted to really make sure we enhance that experience.

Also talked about uh people visiting our site on their mobile devices.

We really wanted to make sure that we built our website to be mobile friendly.

So it is a got a fully responsive design, so you can easily like said access it on your on your phones or your tablets.

Um we also wanted to make sure all the content up there was new and relevant and accurate.

So we really took a lot of time to update all the content.

We looked at everything on our old site.

We had over 1,600 pages full of content and narrow that down to under 500.

So again, just had the most relevant timely information on there where people could get information about our services, our programs, whatever projects are coming on, events and initiatives that we've got.

And also accessibility was extremely important when we built this new website.

And we made sure that it is compliant with our web content accessibility guidelines and the American with disability to act standards.

Couple other new features of the site.

Uh, we really wanted to make sure this is a secure site and not open to um cybersecurity threats.

So that transition to.gov really helped with our enhanced security options.

We also have a new paid translation services tool, so it's more robust and you can get more languages, and it is available on our site with over 100 plus languages currently.

There's also better search functionality.

We we'd heard when we were doing research when we were working on this web project that people sometimes had a hard time finding the information that they needed.

So not only did we you know enhance our uh search engine optimization, but we have a customized search tool that's actually built into Tacoma.gov.

And then branding.

We know important branding is um we wanted to make sure we have a new look and feel that's more memorable and more modern, and also to shortening that URL from cityoftacoma.org to Tacoma.gov just makes it easier to say and easy to tell people about our new site.

Next, uh, these are just a couple of screenshots of some of the new features that we added to Tacoma.gov.

On the left, you'll see there there's our events calendar.

So we've got all of our commissions boards and committees listed in there.

Um any upcoming events including council meetings, um, different things that our departments are doing.

So nice, robust, easy to easy to view uh calendar where you can also filter.

So if there's a specific type of event you're looking for, you can filter that way.

Um you can there's a search bar where if you know what the title of an event you can look through it that way, um where there's even filter options at the top where you can search by council district or um different um locations to find an event that you're looking for.

Also, then too on the right, there is the new I want to section.

So we really wanted to make it easy to navigate where people didn't have to know which department oversees a specific service or um who you know where to which department to go to to find information.

So again, you can um go to the I want to page and apply for a job.

You can pay your utility bill.

You can go and find information about housing information.

You don't have to know where where those pages live within the site architecture.

So again, a nice easy feature so people can get directly to where they want to go in one click.

And then next, um a really important goal of our website when we launched is that we really wanted to feature the beauty of our of the city of destiny and of Tacoma.