Number 10 has released its monthly update on website traffic.
The information gives a fuller picture of the number of users the site generates and the pages viewed.
Traffic for December 2009
As the year drew to a close, the PM was among world leaders who gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the UN climate conference. This followed a visit to Afghanistan and an EU Council meeting in Brussels.
Closer to home, Gordon Brown met young jobseekers in London as the Government announced new work and training opportunities for under-25s, spoke about plans to improve frontline services and held talks with the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Chancellor Alistair Darling also gave his Pre-Budget Report to Parliament.
December traffic
1,648,555 page views, with 605,749 visits from 472,140 unique users
November traffic (for comparison)
3,130,683 page views, with 1,118,119 visits from 872,103 unique users
Total for 2009
34,304,233 page views, with 11,605,224 visits from 7,855,269 unique users
Monthly average for 2009
2,858,686 page views, with 967,102 visits from 654,606 unique users
Other statistics of note
Downing Street’s followers on Twitter reached almost 1.7 million by the end of 2009 (1.696 million as of 4 January). Views of individual photos on Flickr were about 44,000 for the month, and had been viewed a total of 949,690 times by 4 January.