2010 - Australasian Legal Information Institute

Australian case requests by jurisdiction in 2010
Qld
1,317,647
SA
1,012,809
WA
743,580
Tas
362,644
ACT
249,855
NT
98,058
Cth
10,215,435
NSW
2,977,459
Vic
4,408,937
Case law requests did not generally include accesses by search engine web spiders which
AustLII excludes from access.
AustLII maintained the number one market position in the online legal category throughout
2010 (according to Hitwise). This category included websites from government, publishers,
courts & tribunals, law societies, legal firms and barristers. In 2010, AustLII had an average
monthly market share of 26.6% in the online legal category.
There was a twenty percent increase in the volume of data downloaded compared with 2009:
16.73 terabytes were downloaded from AustLII in 2010, due to increased number of PDF files
being downloaded.
AUSTLII’S MAJOR USERS
Most of AustLII’s users access AustLII through large internet service providers, as well as
through University services. Consequently, AustLII is unable to identify a high percentage of its
users because AustLII does not receive internet protocol addresses (IP addresses) specific to
them. Other users are however able to be identified from their IP addresses.
AustLII’s identifiable users fall into three main sectors:
• commercial (mostly comprising the legal profession)
• education
• government
Of the top identified users, 40% are from the commercial sector, 31% from the government
sector and 29% from the education sector. This represents an increase in government usage
compared with 2009.
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