In 2007, ourbrisbane.com was named Australia’s best News and Media (Community Directories and Guides) online resource for the fourth year running. Hitwise awards recognise excellence in online performance, measured through public popularity. The results are based on the aggregated statistics from more than 2.47 million Australian Internet users during the previous year.
We also won top Government website in Queensland and Australia's most popular local government website in the Hitwise Online Performance Awards.
Hitwise is a privately-held, online measurement company providing a competitive intelligence service for over 1000 businesses across six markets. Founded in 1997, Hitwise has its headquarters in New York, with operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Each day, Hitwise monitors more than 25 million home, work and educational Internet users worldwide. This has led to the development of the largest and most up-to-date database of websites ranked by popularity across more than 160 industries.
Hitwise collects the aggregate number of website visits from a range of partner Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The figures from each ISP are then further aggregated and analysed to calculate a website's position in the rankings.