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The US government's web traffic
- ceworthington 12y agoIf anyone would like to see, use or contribute to the code we used to build the Dashboard, we're on GitHub: https://github.com/GSA/analytics.usa.gov https://github.com/GSA/analytics.usa.gov And also open-sourced the adapter we use to get the data out of Google Analytics and into a nice clean JSON API for our client-side static app to consume: https://github.com/18F/analytics-reporter https://github.com/18F/analytics-reporter
- apendleton 12y agoThere was a bit of a kerfuffle around Healthcare.gov sending data to analytics services (despite that being industry standard practice), so I'm curious if there's any push to ditch Google Analytics, etc., for .gov, and move analytics services in-house.
- butner 12y agoCan you be more specific about what you mean by "kerfuffle"? This is the same healthcare.gov that was/is sending PHI data to 3rd parties analytics and ad services (doubleclick, etc)?
- dblock 12y agoVery nice, open-source FTW.
- leahbannon 12y agoEverything we do at 18F is open source, usually as public domain. Interested in working on this stuff? Come work with us: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/25/We-Are-Hiring/ https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/25/We-Are-Hiring/
- blahwoop 12y agowhat's the difference between 18F and USDS? i applied to USDS and never got a reply.
- pseudobry 12y agoSo did I, months ago. No reply.
- wpietri 12y agoHere's an article that describes the difference: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11/white-house-launches-u-s-digital-service-with-healthcare-gov-fixer-at-the-helm/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11...
- EA 12y ago404 on the link to the 1,350 domains: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/gov-domains-api https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/gov-domains-api
- konklone 12y agoShould be fixed momentarily, if it's not already. Thanks for pointing that out!
- jbhatab 12y agoclap clap clap. Keep up the great work.
- vinhboy 12y agoMan I love the fact that you guys continuously contribute to this community. I hope whatever you are doing spread to other parts of the government. I really enjoy seeing the government engage the community in this way.
- kngspook 12y agoJFYI, under operating systems, "Macintosh" should be "OS X". Macs are the hardware, OS X is the operating system that runs on the hardware. :)
- sjwright 12y agoAlso, Apple hasn't called their product line "Macintosh" for over fifteen years. It's an anachronism as blatant as replacing Windows with "IBM PC".
- awalGarg 12y agohttp://i.imgur.com/H3E8NMh.png http://i.imgur.com/H3E8NMh.png They can't get a number sorting algorithm right? :/
- chinathrow 12y agoLook slightly to the right and you'll see why.
- pc86 12y agoIt is obviously sorted by % use.
- buro9 12y agoGov.UK has something similar. The detail: https://www.gov.uk/performance/site-activity https://www.gov.uk/performance/site-activity By department: https://www.gov.uk/performance/web-traffic https://www.gov.uk/performance/web-traffic All Gov.UK and digital services performance data: https://www.gov.uk/performance https://www.gov.uk/performance
- cs02rm0 12y agoReally interesting to see a spike in people switching from desktop to mobile and tablet at Christmas - and then switching back afterwards!
- ojilles 12y agoOr prison visits for that matter: https://www.gov.uk/performance/prison-visits/volumetrics https://www.gov.uk/performance/prison-visits/volumetrics
- edparry 12y agoThere's a similar service in place for Gov.UK: https://www.gov.uk/performance/site-activity https://www.gov.uk/performance/site-activity Nice to see IE gets updated a lot quicker in the US than it does in the UK (though there aren't browser usage statistics available for Gov.UK sites I don't think...)!
- xomateix 12y agoBrowser stats for gov.uk sites: http://data.gov.uk/data/site-usage#totals http://data.gov.uk/data/site-usage#totals
- ceworthington 12y agoIf you'd like to build things like this Dashboard, and help fix the services Americans depend on, we are hiring. We have an amazing core already, and are growing fast. Read more about the U.S. Digital Service and apply at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/usds https://www.whitehouse.gov/usds Our pitch is pretty simple: Fix Stuff That Matters.
- pronoiac 12y agoHere it is as a clickable link: https://www.whitehouse.gov/usds https://www.whitehouse.gov/usds I'm curious: where is that work, geographically?
- ceworthington 12y agoMany positions are DC-based (at least some part of every month), but several of our digital service teams (including the largest and most mature Digital Service team at GSA called 18F https://18f.gsa.gov https://18f.gsa.gov) have remote offices and allow remote work. You can indicate your geographic limitations on the application.
- gjreda 12y agoAre there ever opportunities for freelance/contract work?
- gknoy 12y agoWhile you might be hiring, it was remarkably hard to find any details on job listings. (edit: I don't think I actually found any.) The closest I could find was by following many links and eventually getting a web form where I could give my contact info for joining the Digital Service. Is there a chance you could put a more convenient link directly to your listing of jobs (or a friendly page that links directly to USAJOBS, or explains about that painful tar baby) at the bottom of the main 18F page?
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- austenallred 12y ago28.3% on IE, 41% on Windows 7. Wow. It's odd, being in the tech bubble, you forget how many people there are that really don't think about their technology (or work somewhere for whom the most important things are cost and stability). It would be interesting to take a poll of what people think the numbers would be like before they saw them. I would have guessed a lot more Chrome/FF.
- higherpurpose 12y agoI'm actually surprised at how low the IE number is - for government websites. Obviously you can't compare it to the traffic on HN or Techcrunch, where like 70 percent must be on Chrome and 5 percent on IE, but seeing how some analystics sites still put IE at 50 percent market share, I think that's quite impressive. Or NetApps' market share numbers are crap, and StatCounter's (and others') numbers are a lot closer to reality - which is that Chrome dominates the web browser market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
- Hovertruck 12y agoI slapped this together recently using Chartbeat's realtime data (so the sources are major sites – nytimes.com, foxnews.com, espn, etc): http://percentoftheinternet.com http://percentoftheinternet.com http://percentoftheinternet.com/windows http://percentoftheinternet.com/windows http://percentoftheinternet.com/chrome http://percentoftheinternet.com/chrome http://percentoftheinternet.com/ie http://percentoftheinternet.com/ie ...etc... Raw data is here: https://api.chartbeat.com/cbtotal/?v=2 https://api.chartbeat.com/cbtotal/?v=2
- acdha 12y agoNetApps numbers appear to be based on a small number of corporate sites, which are skewed towards US media companies. They weight the numbers by the CIA World Factbook data for internet usage in a country but they've never given a reason to believe this approach doesn't exaggerate the distortions present in their sample of data. If you want reliable numbers, nothing beats direct measurement for a comparable site. I've never worked on a site where traffic was anywhere near NetApps’ but I've found Akamai’s numbers to be reasonably close for sites which target a general audience: http://www.akamai.com/html/io/io_dataset_v2.html http://www.akamai.com/html/io/io_dataset_v2.html
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- djscram 12y agoAre DHHS and Ed not on there yet? Or do they just not rank very highly?
- leahbannon 12y agoThey're on there - they just aren't popular enough to rank. Some DHS services are there (like USCIS).
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- nickysielicki 12y agoThat is one very sexy government website.
- thegreatpeter 12y agoWhat scares me is Safari's Usage is higher than the Mac usage. Does that mean people are using the old Safari on Windows?
- Jtsummers 12y agoSafari (20.4%) < Mac (9.1%) + iOS (16.7%) Probably not an issue of Safari for Windows, but not accounting for the mobile users. That sums to 25.8% so around 5.4% of Mac + iOS users are using something other than Safari (the vast majority of that is likely Mac users).
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- chronomex 12y agoHmm, I was expecting to see what sites government employees were visiting the most. Probably not for a few years at least :)
- malchow 12y agoI love this. Top Pages right now: Where's My Refund? - It's Quick, Easy and Secure. 4,600 "You take ~40% of my money every year. And you took too much this year. Give me a little back, please?" National Weather Service 1,858 "What's the weather gonna be?" National Weather Service - Forecasts by Region 1,846 "Will it rain today?" Internal Revenue Service 1,672 "Let me spend a few hundred hours figuring out how to pay you for the weather." NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1,155 "What is the weather today, though, seriously?" myUSCIS - Case Status 1,053 "Please let me in so that I can work in your private sector." The United States Social Security Administration 921 "Where's my check this month?"
- ceejayoz 12y agoWhat on earth are you doing that you pay a 40% effective tax rate and spend a few hundred hours doing your tax return?
- adventured 12y agoMedium volume day trading (hundreds or thousands of transactions per day), where you make $500k per year (which will get you to the 40% marginal tax rate, 31% effective). Have to account for the basis of every trade, all short-term gains/losses, and let's assume they're doing that accounting work themselves (the hundreds of hours is a stretch though), and that they're not plugging a csv file into a program to take care of it for them so it's all manual gain/loss matching. That's about as close as I could come without getting silly. Even oil companies like Exxon don't end up paying 40% (35% effective I think in their last fiscal year). If you make $5+ million per year, and have nothing to offset any of that, you can end up paying over 40%. Pretty rare group of people likely to fall into that.
- mortehu 12y agoAdd the ~8% spent by the employer for Medicare and Social Security, and the 31% effective rate becomes ~39%, doesn't it? For income above $200K, there's also an "Additional Medicare Tax" of 0.9%.
- Apofis 12y agoReally surprised Safari accounts for 20% of the visitors on Gov sites but MacOS only 9.1%. Means 10.9% of those are Windows Safari users.
- mariojv 12y agoMobile safari?
- jfoster 12y agoThis data is really valuable to gauge OS & browser usage. Like anything, I would expect it to have some sampling bias in it, but I can't think of better sources for this data. Google, perhaps. (does Google release this type of data?) I would love to see some history to understand what's growing, what's in decline, and how rapidly.
- NN88 12y agoThe petitions are ranking pretty high...
- tdicola 12y agoWow beautiful site, nice work to all involved! I found there's a good blog post about how it all works too: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-gov/ https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-go... It's all static pages with JSON data pulled in from reporting services that use Node. Very cool!