Every year, ALGIM conducts an annual survey of council websites throughout New Zealand to ask questions from both a technical and content perspective. We send an invite to councils inviting them to complete the survey.

The results from the survey are collated into a report which provides a snapshot of the New Zealand local government sector covering areas like: 

• how councils manage their websites
  
• what software applications they use;
  
• reporting and search facilities;
  
• functionality and online services provided; and
  
• use of social media, mobile apps and open data
  

The information provided in the survey contributes to the rankings of all council websites and the ALGIM Web Audit report.

An overview of the results from the snapshot of the sector survey are published and available at the ALGIM Spring Conference held in September each year. For more information about the Conference please refer to the ALGIM Spring Conference Events Page.

The 2018 ALGIM Local Government Website Snapshot Survey is now open. To request the snapshot survey, email the Snapshot Survey Coordinator.

This survey provides us with an updated snapshot of where we are today as a sector, and highlights any major changes since last year’s survey. It is important that Councils participate in the survey as results contribute to the ALGIM Council rankings of all council websites for 2018.

This survey is now CLOSED. We will be running our snapshot survey for in June-July 2019.

If your council completed the self-assessment website snapshot of the sector survey last year and would like a copy of your answers, please email events@algim.org.nz to request a copy.