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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:

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.

sersi 5y ago
The problem is that a lot of Firefox users block google analytics, so it would not surprise me that Firefox is very much underrepresented.
amitport 5y ago
It's not dead. US gov sites do not represent the entire web. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
- Victerius 5y ago
  US gov sites may not represent the entire web, but the platforms that the entire population uses to access government websites, does. People don't use a different browser for the State Department and for Facebook. The data presented here is actually reflective. If anything, it's conservative. Not many teens are looking up tax forms or passport renewal forms (their parents do it for them). And these young users are less likely to use anything other than Chrome and Safari.
  - amitport 5y ago
    US is not the world. Just felt like it had to be stated.
    - black3r 5y ago
      currently it states that 56.3% visitors there are from outside the US.
      - Liquid_Fire 5y ago
        It's currently nighttime in the US, so that's not too surprising. But it doesn't mean that the overall fraction of visitors from outside the US is that high.
      - amitport 5y ago
        The people that surf to US gov sites (even from outside the US), IMO, are not a very good sample of the world's web users.
- charcircuit 5y ago
  The US has more spending power than most of the rest of the world.
warvariuc 5y ago
It means that Edge is less used within Mobile device type.
mrintellectual 5y ago
I am fairly certain this is a side effect of people sharing this link through messaging apps, thereby inflating Chrome (default browser for Android devices) and Safari (default browser for Apple devices) relative to Firefox.
tomcam 5y ago
Many many tablets are reported as mobile
reaperducer 5y ago
Tablets remain a niche product iPads don't show themselves to be iPads. They read as full computers. It's an anti-profiling feature Apple added a few years ago.

sersi 5y ago

The problem is that a lot of Firefox users block google analytics, so it would not surprise me that Firefox is very much underrepresented.

amitport 5y ago

It's not dead. US gov sites do not represent the entire web. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Victerius 5y ago
US gov sites may not represent the entire web, but the platforms that the entire population uses to access government websites, does. People don't use a different browser for the State Department and for Facebook. The data presented here is actually reflective. If anything, it's conservative. Not many teens are looking up tax forms or passport renewal forms (their parents do it for them). And these young users are less likely to use anything other than Chrome and Safari.
- amitport 5y ago
  US is not the world. Just felt like it had to be stated.
  - black3r 5y ago
    currently it states that 56.3% visitors there are from outside the US.
    - Liquid_Fire 5y ago
      It's currently nighttime in the US, so that's not too surprising. But it doesn't mean that the overall fraction of visitors from outside the US is that high.
    - amitport 5y ago
      The people that surf to US gov sites (even from outside the US), IMO, are not a very good sample of the world's web users.
charcircuit 5y ago
The US has more spending power than most of the rest of the world.

warvariuc 5y ago

It means that Edge is less used within Mobile device type.

mrintellectual 5y ago

I am fairly certain this is a side effect of people sharing this link through messaging apps, thereby inflating Chrome (default browser for Android devices) and Safari (default browser for Apple devices) relative to Firefox.

tomcam 5y ago

Many many tablets are reported as mobile

reaperducer 5y ago

Tablets remain a niche product iPads don't show themselves to be iPads. They read as full computers. It's an anti-profiling feature Apple added a few years ago.