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Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by mbrubeck »

Jtsummers wrote: post #34
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).

The non-Safari visits from Mac + iOS are actually 5.4% of all visits, or about about 21% of Mac + iOS visits.

(5.4% / 25.8% = 20.9%)

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by malchow »

I love this.

Top Pages right now:

Where's My Refund? - It's Quick, Easy and Secure. 4,600

"You take ~40% of my money every year. And you took too much this year. Give me a little back, please?"

National Weather Service 1,858

"What's the weather gonna be?"

National Weather Service - Forecasts by Region 1,846

"Will it rain today?"

Internal Revenue Service 1,672

"Let me spend a few hundred hours figuring out how to pay you for the weather."

NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1,155

"What is the weather today, though, seriously?"

myUSCIS - Case Status 1,053

"Please let me in so that I can work in your private sector."

The United States Social Security Administration 921

"Where's my check this month?"

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by slayed0 »

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…

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

Or, rather, people have different definitions of better. For many people, cost and stability are huge components of their personal calculation. I think it would be more appropriate for you to say:

having something incrementally NEWER

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by ceejayoz »

malchow wrote: post #42

I love this. Top Pages right now: Where's My Refund? - It's Quick, Easy and Secure. 4,600 "You take ~40% of my money every year. And you took too much this year. Give me a little back, please?" National Weather Service 1,858 "What's the weather gonna be?" National Weather Service - Forecasts by Region 1,846 "Will it rain today?" Internal Revenue Service 1,672 "Let me spend a few hundred hours figuring out how to pay…

What on earth are you doing that you pay a 40% effective tax rate and spend a few hundred hours doing your tax return?

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by Amezarak »

malchow wrote: post #42

I love this. Top Pages right now: Where's My Refund? - It's Quick, Easy and Secure. 4,600 "You take ~40% of my money every year. And you took too much this year. Give me a little back, please?" National Weather Service 1,858 "What's the weather gonna be?" National Weather Service - Forecasts by Region 1,846 "Will it rain today?" Internal Revenue Service 1,672 "Let me spend a few hundred hours figuring out how to pay…

> "You take ~40% of my money every year. And you took too much this year. Give me a little back, please?"

In my experience, most people are trying to get the biggest refund possible, rather than minimizing the amount they under/overpay.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by aaronsnow »

gknoy wrote: post #36
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 USA…

This 18F blog post talks about the different types of roles people play on our team: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/25/We-Are-Hiring/ . The application form for the Presidential Innovation Fellowship program also calls out specific skills and domain expertise they're looking for: https://pif.gsa.gov/ . Cheers!

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by cs02rm0 »

buro9 wrote: post #10

Gov.UK has something similar. The detail: https://www.gov.uk/performance/site-activity By department: https://www.gov.uk/performance/web-traffic All Gov.UK and digital services performance data: https://www.gov.uk/performance

Really interesting to see a spike in people switching from desktop to mobile and tablet at Christmas - and then switching back afterwards!

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by aros »

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…

It's telling of our industry that if you aren't using an overpriced fashion product, you're incompetent.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by aros »

malchow wrote: post #42

I love this. Top Pages right now: Where's My Refund? - It's Quick, Easy and Secure. 4,600 "You take ~40% of my money every year. And you took too much this year. Give me a little back, please?" National Weather Service 1,858 "What's the weather gonna be?" National Weather Service - Forecasts by Region 1,846 "Will it rain today?" Internal Revenue Service 1,672 "Let me spend a few hundred hours figuring out how to pay…

40% effective tax rate? Impressive, I've never gone above 15% and I'm in a 6 digit salary.

Hundreds of hours to prepare a tax return? I guess if you can't read or something. No idea how it takes longer than a 2-3 hours (less if you're filing a 1040EZ).

And I'm pretty sure that the government is responsible for more than predicting the weather.

Re: The US government's web traffic

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Post by jbhatab »

ceworthington wrote: post #2

If anyone would like to see, use or contribute to the code we used to build the Dashboard, we're on GitHub: https://github.com/GSA/analytics.usa.gov And also open-sourced the adapter we use to get the data out of Google Analytics and into a nice clean JSON API for our client-side static app to consume: https://github.com/18F/analytics-reporter

clap clap clap. Keep up the great work.
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