by plasma_beam on 1/20/22, 1:43 PM
This site went live in 2015 and hasn't changed too much since then. Participating agencies have their google analytics data collected by GSA, which is hosting this webpage.
It's very useful, and I've referred to this site many times over the years (probably bc a couple sites I've worked on are in the top 50!).
For those people wanting other awesome and informative govt sites, take a look at https://www.usaspending.gov/, which has all government contracts data easily searchable (and bookmarkable).
https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-go...
by ralferoo on 1/20/22, 9:24 AM
Wonder if tomorrow, the analytics site will show up as the top most visited government website!
by boomboomsubban on 1/20/22, 7:01 AM
Under "Visitor locations right now," 1% are coming from Graceville. As far as I can tell, that'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's up?
by echelon on 1/20/22, 6:20 AM
Firefox's usage percentage is upsetting.
I hope they don't die, but this looks really bad for them.
by firechickenbird on 1/20/22, 7:32 AM
Apple covers 45.3% of the visits, that's insane
by substructure on 1/20/22, 6:26 AM
Correct me if I'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/Linux. If we assume that both groups visit government websites equally often, then for every GNU/Linux user there exist (31.3/1.1) = 28.5 Windows users. Scary stuff.
by hollerith on 1/20/22, 6:32 AM
Chromebooks have high (unit) sales (some say) but I've yet to see any signs that they are used a lot. Here only 1.4% of visits are from ChromeOS.
by Aeolun on 1/20/22, 10:16 AM
Yes, the only place with less visitors than the ‘Department for Housing and Urban Development’ is the ‘National Science Foundation’.
Sign of the times?
by lkbm on 1/20/22, 7:52 PM
by caaqil on 1/20/22, 6:22 AM
by tradertef on 1/20/22, 6:41 AM
India is 7.7% of total traffic and China is 5%. It is night now, but still these numbers are surprisingly high.
by Victerius on 1/20/22, 6:23 AM
Breakdown:
By device type:
Mobile 53.7%
Desktop 44.1%
Tablet 1.9%
By browser:
Chrome 48%
Safari 36.2%
Edge 6.4%
Firefox 2.8%
My personal conclusions:
Tablets remain a niche product, Firefox is dead, and Edge will be dead in a few years if it can't eat more market share, which it won't.
by patcon on 1/20/22, 5:47 PM
Ack. I'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:
by politelemon on 1/20/22, 7:01 AM
When it says "now", how "now" do they mean? I've refreshed a few times and the number hasn't changed (171,533). I went to cisa.gov (disabled all my blockers) but the number here is still the same over here.
by throwaway89374 on 1/20/22, 7:30 AM
This does not seem to work correctly. I visited from separate browsers and the number remains the same.
by drugstorecowboy on 1/20/22, 7:48 PM
In state government, many desktops are set up with the agency'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.
by fareesh on 1/20/22, 7:19 AM
Is it possible to FOIA how much it cost the US government to build this page?
by encryptluks2 on 1/20/22, 6:35 AM
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.
by erwincoumans on 1/20/22, 5:20 PM
From the info, it looks like a lot of the recent traffic is due to the free COVID test.
by m4tthumphrey on 1/20/22, 9:55 AM
Visitor Locations Now: London 2%
Clearly a HN hug!
by nitn on 1/20/22, 6:21 AM
Why is the government using Google Analytics (which is now illegal in some countries) instead of self hosting an analytics solution.