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Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by Bedon292 »

austenallred wrote: post #13

28.3% 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.

It is interesting to see the IE numbers, I suspect it is because many government computers do not have other options. When I was in the military it was all we had. CAC cards also only work properly in IE, on government sites at least, so that will likely also skew the numbers. We of course were running extremely outdated versions too, so that may be part of the higher 8/9 numbers then you might expect.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by kevan »

thejosh wrote: post #16
austenallred wrote: post #13

28.3% 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.

IE8 is just 3%, great news. On par with what we see. Most people whinge about IE8 support, yet their mobile experience is awful. 25% of these hits are mobile, we see close to 40-50% for us, with much higher for hospitality clients (bars, restaurants), though they usually get <3k sessions a month.

Similar IE8 and mobile numbers here. IE8 support used to be a main focus because 3% of a really big number is still a pretty big number. Then we started paying attention to mobile stats and realized how much we were missing in the mobile experience.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by Jtsummers »

thegreatpeter wrote: post #33

What scares me is Safari's Usage is higher than the Mac usage. Does that mean people are using the old Safari on Windows?

Safari (20.4%) 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).

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by gknoy »

ceworthington wrote: post #12

If 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 Our pitch is pretty simple: Fix Stuff That Matters.

While 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?

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by Hovertruck »

higherpurpose wrote: post #15
austenallred wrote: post #13

28.3% 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.

I'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…

I 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/windows http://percentoftheinternet.com/chrome http://percentoftheinternet.com/ie

...etc...

Raw data is here: https://api.chartbeat.com/cbtotal/?v=2

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by austenallred »

driverdan wrote: post #26
austenallred wrote: post #13

28.3% 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.

What's wrong with Windows 7? The majority of the world runs Windows and 7 is a fine choice. It's rock solid and there's really no reason to upgrade to 8.

Nothing is "wrong" with it, I'm just surrounded by people who obsess about tech all day and go after whatever is newest and shiniest - if you're not running chromium on your 15" retina macbook pro then you're obviously incompetent.

Turns out for most people stability and cost are much more important than having something incrementally better.

Not passing judgment on one or the other, just thought it an interesting realization.

For what it's worth, I run Windows on a virtual machine to do some stuff and I use 7.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by DanBC »

austenallred wrote: post #38
driverdan wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with Windows 7? The majority of the world runs Windows and 7 is a fine choice. It's rock solid and there's really no reason to upgrade to 8.

Nothing is "wrong" with it, I'm just surrounded by people who obsess about tech all day and go after whatever is newest and shiniest - if you're not running chromium on your 15" retina macbook pro then you're obviously incompetent. Turns out for most people stability and cost are much more important than having something incrementally better. Not passing judgment on one or the other, just thought it an interesting re…

I'd love to see the stats for HN for browser use.
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