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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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When it says "now", how "now" do they mean? I've refreshed a few times and the number hasn't changed (171,533). I went to cisa.gov (disabled all my blockers) but the number here is still the same over here.

It's now showing 168,571 people, maybe it's every few minutes or possibly every hour as it's x:05 currently.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#34

India is 7.7% of total traffic and China is 5%. It is night now, but still these numbers are surprisingly high.

The most common website is USPS by a significant margin. Could that explain much of the international traffic?

COVID tests, I assume.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#35

When it says "now", how "now" do they mean? I've refreshed a few times and the number hasn't changed (171,533). I went to cisa.gov (disabled all my blockers) but the number here is still the same over here.

While I was looking at the data, the ranking of the top visited pages changed without reload, so I assume it is streamed in real-time. But I guess that the real-time data comes from aggregated and somewhat delayed data.

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.

   yes.
14 years on and still haven't found a way to make themselves any less independent of Google's money. >90% of their revenue derived from their direct anti-privacy competitor makes them entirely on life support.

Rust was their opportunity to escape that, now they just threw it away and now they are back to where they started.

Firefox is in decline. Nothing has changed.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#39

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.

In my social circles I know a grand total of zero GNU/Linux users. I am the only one

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#40

As someone pointed out in another thread, there is something fishy going on with these with a high percentage of usage coming from Graceville. Who knows if they are spoofing user agents and what not.

perhaps there's an internet exchange in one of the Graceville's, and it accounts for traffic from nearby cities too?

I noticed that San Jose makes the list, as does LA and Seattle right now, but no San Francisco. I suspect that SF traffic goes through San Jose and thus most of the bay area appears as San Jose in their numbers. Not a big leap to imagine this happens in other places too.

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