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Number of people on government websites now

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Re: Number of people on government websites now

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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.

For what it's worth, Linux is over represented in the (fake) User-agent strings of the bots that attack my web servers. Most probably are indeed on linux, since they are predominantly scripts running on cloud providers. :)

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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Firefox's usage percentage is upsetting. I hope they don't die, but this looks really bad for them.

3% of almost billions(?) of browser users are still a fews millions of Firefox users. Millions of users is not "dead".

Right, but I think the overarching point is that 3% is awfully close to the 1% that is Internet Explorer, which many would consider dead. If usage decline continues, it just wouldn’t take much for no people to stop supporting it.

This is from someone who uses Firefox

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#24
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Why is the government using Google Analytics (which is now illegal in some countries) instead of self hosting an analytics solution.

Back in my day, the mantra was "Information wants to be free", and laws limiting freedom on the internet and freedom of information were looked down upon.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#25

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.

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Re: Number of people on government websites now

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Firefox's usage percentage is upsetting. I hope they don't die, but this looks really bad for them.

Aren't they basically being kept alive by Google at this point? Almost 90% of their revenue is from that one deal at it has felt like they have been more concerned with other initiatives for a while now.
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