According to measurements taken by SiteScanner in the first four months of 2009, Sweden's 290 municipal websites are improving in terms of their availability. The national average during the period was 12 hours of downtime - a marked improvement on 2008's figures.
Sweden's municipalities were off-line for a total of 148 days during the survey period, which is an improvement on the results of the autumn survey when the total downtime was a whopping 194 days. This means that a quarter of all the downtime has been eradicated.
In the statistics there are several examples municipalities with 100% availability: Vilhelmina, Ekerö and Mönsterås are among the top-ranking municipalities in Sweden in terms of web availability.
But this picture is not the same everywhere; the worst municipality in this survey was Skinnskatteberg which had 241 hours - roughly ten days – of downtime. This is equivalent to an availability of 91.6 percent, a figure which is far from acceptable given that the national average is 99.6 percent.
When it comes to rendering times most municipal websites were looking good, although some municipalities deviated from the norm by having start pages with long load times. Nacka Municipality's website had the longest; it took 9.2 seconds for the page to finish loading.