Utah government Web site gets third-place ranking

0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Nov 3, 2004

Utah.gov, the state's Internet portal, has been ranked third in Brown University's fifth annual study of state and federal Web sites.

Last year, Utah.gov was 17th.

A team of researchers at Brown's Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions compiled the rankings this summer. To calculate state placement, the researchers analyzed 1,569 sites -- an average of 31.4 per state -- and measured them against a host of criteria, including availability of online services, disability and foreign language access, readability level, quality control and availability of credit card payments.

Last year, Utah.gov processed 1.2 million transactions and hosted more than 20 million site visits. The site is a collaborative effort between the state of Utah and Utah Interactive LLC, the latter being a Salt Lake-based wholly owned subsidiary of e-government firm NIC.