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Top Website Views Provide Vital Feedback

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July 30, 2013

Visitors to the Unified Judicial System website consistently are viewing the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s opinions and postings area more than any other page, internal research shows.

A reworking of the website completed earlier this year resulted in a significant change in appearance, navigation and overall design. The updating was based on research about how best to provide access and manage court-related online information used by jurists, administrators, lawyers, media and the general public.

Research conducted this summer found a consistently high number of page views for the opinions and postings of Pennsylvania’s three appellate courts — Supreme, Superior and Commonwealth. Pages offering information about magisterial district judges, public records and forms also drew a significant number of page views.

The results provide a tool to make sound decisions about how to manage website content and enhance access to the information. Pennsylvania was the second state court system to create a website when it began posting online data in April 1995 — one week after the Florida courts launched a similar site.