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Number of people on government websites now

362 pointsby wylie39over 3 years ago

21 comments

plasma_beamover 3 years ago
This site went live in 2015 and hasn&#x27;t changed too much since then. Participating agencies have their google analytics data collected by GSA, which is hosting this webpage.<p>It&#x27;s very useful, and I&#x27;ve referred to this site many times over the years (probably bc a couple sites I&#x27;ve worked on are in the top 50!).<p>For those people wanting other awesome and informative govt sites, take a look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usaspending.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usaspending.gov&#x2F;</a>, which has all government contracts data easily searchable (and bookmarkable).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;18f.gsa.gov&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;how-we-built-analytics-usa-gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;18f.gsa.gov&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;19&#x2F;how-we-built-analytics-usa-go...</a>
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ralferooover 3 years ago
Wonder if tomorrow, the analytics site will show up as the top most visited government website!
boomboomsubbanover 3 years ago
Under &quot;Visitor locations right now,&quot; 1% are coming from Graceville. As far as I can tell, that&#x27;s either a town of 4k in Australia, 2k in Florida, or there are two Gracevilles in Minnesota with a few hundred people. Any idea what&#x27;s up?
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echelonover 3 years ago
Firefox&#x27;s usage percentage is upsetting.<p>I hope they don&#x27;t die, but this looks really bad for them.
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firechickenbirdover 3 years ago
Apple covers 45.3% of the visits, that&#x27;s insane
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substructureover 3 years ago
Correct me if I&#x27;m wrong, but this shows that in the last 90 days 5.06 billion visits came from 31.3% Windows while 1.1% were from GNU&#x2F;Linux. If we assume that both groups visit government websites equally often, then for every GNU&#x2F;Linux user there exist (31.3&#x2F;1.1) = 28.5 Windows users. Scary stuff.
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hollerithover 3 years ago
Chromebooks have high (unit) sales (some say) but I&#x27;ve yet to see any signs that they are used a lot. Here only 1.4% of visits are from ChromeOS.
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Aeolunover 3 years ago
Yes, the only place with less visitors than the ‘Department for Housing and Urban Development’ is the ‘National Science Foundation’.<p>Sign of the times?
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lkbmover 3 years ago
Looks like it converts URLs to lower-case in the &quot;Top Pages&quot; list. One of the most visited sites right now is listed as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jwst.nasa.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;webblaunch&#x2F;whereiswebb.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jwst.nasa.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;webblaunch&#x2F;whereiswebb.html</a> but that&#x27;s a 404. Actual URL has a capital L: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jwst.nasa.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;webbLaunch&#x2F;whereIsWebb.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jwst.nasa.gov&#x2F;content&#x2F;webbLaunch&#x2F;whereIsWebb.html</a>
caaqilover 3 years ago
From the data at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;analytics.usa.gov&#x2F;data&#x2F;live&#x2F;browsers.json" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;analytics.usa.gov&#x2F;data&#x2F;live&#x2F;browsers.json</a>, Microsoft Edge has more than 2x the users of Firefox (322,890,632 vs 143,040,483).
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tradertefover 3 years ago
India is 7.7% of total traffic and China is 5%. It is night now, but still these numbers are surprisingly high.
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Victeriusover 3 years ago
Breakdown:<p>By device type:<p>Mobile 53.7%<p>Desktop 44.1%<p>Tablet 1.9%<p>By browser:<p>Chrome 48%<p>Safari 36.2%<p>Edge 6.4%<p>Firefox 2.8%<p>My personal conclusions:<p>Tablets remain a niche product, Firefox is dead, and Edge will be dead in a few years if it can&#x27;t eat more market share, which it won&#x27;t.
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patconover 3 years ago
Ack. I&#x27;ve used PubMed for over a decade (since it was taught as the de facto way to search the science literature in my Canadian university) and it never occurred to me that it was a US federal government website :facepalm:
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politelemonover 3 years ago
When it says &quot;now&quot;, how &quot;now&quot; do they mean? I&#x27;ve refreshed a few times and the number hasn&#x27;t changed (171,533). I went to cisa.gov (disabled all my blockers) but the number here is still the same over here.
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throwaway89374over 3 years ago
This does not seem to work correctly. I visited from separate browsers and the number remains the same.
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drugstorecowboyover 3 years ago
In state government, many desktops are set up with the agency&#x27;s website as the browser homepage with no way to change it. I would think federal government is the same, that alone might skew some of these statistics.
fareeshover 3 years ago
Is it possible to FOIA how much it cost the US government to build this page?
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encryptluks2over 3 years ago
As someone pointed out in another thread, there is something fishy going on with these with a high percentage of usage coming from Graceville. Who knows if they are spoofing user agents and what not.
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erwincoumansover 3 years ago
From the info, it looks like a lot of the recent traffic is due to the free COVID test.
m4tthumphreyover 3 years ago
Visitor Locations Now: London 2%<p>Clearly a HN hug!
nitnover 3 years ago
Why is the government using Google Analytics (which is now illegal in some countries) instead of self hosting an analytics solution.
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