The City of Sarasota has launched a redesigned website with an emphasis on mobility, search options and streamlining information. With the new look, comes a new url: SarasotaFL.Gov. City staff worked extensively with website designer Vision Internet, which has overhauled many municipal sites, including the City of North Port, City of Venice and Sarasota County. The new website is designed to allow for immediate changes to spotlight important, time sensitive information, which will be especially useful during an emergency, such as Hurricane Irma. The previous City of Sarasota website was in existence for six years and needed modernizing to keep up with technology and how users interact with a website. 66 percent of users access the City of Sarasota website via a desktop computer versus 34 percent with a mobile device. These numbers are expected to invert in the coming years. The City of Sarasota website receives a significant amount of cyber traffic with a daily average of 5,000 unique page views and over 1 million unique page views per year. During Hurricane Irma, the number of daily visits more than doubled to 12,000.

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