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• 98% Isn't Much

  Yes. The problem is The US Government (and UK Government) use the "2% rule" on their websites and only officially support 98%. I mentioned 3 years ago that Firefox at 2.2% is dangerously close the being unsupported on government websites, and at this point it's now at 1.9%. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36776603 says "There were 1.66 billion sessions in the last 30 days." - so 2% is 33 million sessions if I... - Source: Hacker News / 3 days ago

• Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA

  For another anecdata point, https://analytics.usa.gov tracks user device demographics to all visitors of U.S. Government websites. Which of course might skew in ways different than the general U.S. population. But checking out the numbers right now for Linux users: Last 30 days: 6%. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• GSA Eliminates 18F

  Bad result for America, as at least the two that I've been familiar with have both been dramatically better website implementations than much of the federal government. GSA, Digital Analytics Program: https://analytics.usa.gov/ Huge amounts of data about how government websites are used including: locations (cities, countries), languages, referral sources, media sources, devices, browsers, OS, website destination,... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover

  Thanks for the link on 18F in the feds. Didn't realize how much they had put up on Github and other areas [1]. analytics.usa.gov [2] is also pretty cool. Apparently its Jekyll, Sass, React and d3 from their Github. 343,025 first time users in the last 30 minutes, with GSA Advantage, USPS Tracking Results, NIST, CEAC Visa Status Check, and Federal Student Aid being some of the biggest sources. Had no idea this... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Is Chrome the New IE?

  If any browser is the new IE, it's Firefox -- poor compatibility, very few people use it, but enough that makes people think we need to support it https://analytics.usa.gov/ We're now at 0.8% Firefox usage on Gov't websites, that means Firefox support is no longer required at a gov't level (2% usage is the threshold) Firefox should be shut down in 2025 if all trends continue. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

  The US government does run its own self-hosted analytics platform (https://analytics.usa.gov), which the USPS does in fact use. Which makes it all the more questionable that they were additionally using third-party analytics. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

  > Or put it this way -- is there a data analytics platform that is suitable & easy to use for any US government agency? Not that I am aware of (but please let me know). See https://analytics.usa.gov/ Note that the #1 website being tracked using this publicly owned and managed analytics service is usps.com. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• How to make a great government website

  Scale from day one is a good point. Unlike a commercial website, users are required to use a government website (or use a paper equivalent) so usage can rapidly jump from zero to every citizen. In the US, Federal government websites total over a billion sessions per month [1]. [1] https://analytics.usa.gov/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• 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 / over 2 years 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 / over 2 years 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 / almost 3 years 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: almost 4 years 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 / almost 4 years 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 4 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 4 years ago

• Discussion Thread

  Yo the free COVID tests seem super popular, seems like grassroots viral marketing (“leaked” a day early). Source: over 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 / about 5 years ago