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• Weather.gov 2.0

  They actually have an in-house solution for this: https://analytics.usa.gov/ (though based on Google Analytics) Details here: https://digital.gov/guides/dap/common-questions-about-dap/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Sparkle: A software update framework for macOS

  Data from analytics.usa.gov [1] reveals that Chrome leads browser usage at 48%, closely followed by Safari at 35.7%, highlighting the competitive proximity of Safari to Chrome. Definitely much higher share than I thought. [1] https://analytics.usa.gov/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

  Firefox has 2.2% usage on US government websites according to https://analytics.usa.gov/ If it falls below 2% it may lose official support on .gov websites according to https://designsystem.digital.gov/documentation/developers/#browser-support. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• MDN dropped IE compatibility data from their site

  Also on access to US Gov websites, IE is now part of "other", https://analytics.usa.gov/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Cloud.gov

  (Off topic): this page linked at the bottom of cloud.gov is quite interesting. Visitor analytics for government sites. https://analytics.usa.gov/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Examining the Covidtests.gov Architecture

  I just discover that https://analytics.usa.gov exists to show the number of users on the site and other participating .gov sites in real time. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Why does Graceville account for more internet traffic than Chicago, LA, or DC??

  Https://analytics.usa.gov/ shows how much current traffic US gov't websites are getting, and where the traffic is coming from. Here’s a screencap I just did of the site, showing that the top five sources were NYC, Graceville, DC, Chicago, and LA. Source: over 2 years ago

• Discussion Thread

  Yo the free COVID tests seem super popular, seems like grassroots viral marketing (“leaked” a day early). Source: over 2 years ago

• Keep the USPS sysadmins in your thoughts and prayers folks

  You can see how many people are using it, live on the US Government's Analytics site. Right now it's around 700,000 people. Source: over 2 years ago

• Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only)

  According to the real time analytics [0], as of 1PM (central time), there are more visitors to COVIDtests.gov (754,000) than to all other federal government websites combined (1.33 million) [0] https://analytics.usa.gov. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only)

  You can see how many users currently viewing this usps page at https://analytics.usa.gov/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan

  I've been keeping a log of the slow death of IE here: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1260627626739130369?s=20 in the past year, major sites in all categories from linkedin to twitter to skillshare to microsoft to adobe have all dropped IE, with Wordpress, Drupal and Vuejs making plans. The big catalyst I think will be the US government dropping IE support - it only supports browsers above 2% usage... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago