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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%)
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
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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…
If this were truly the case, they wouldn't be using Windows. It's mostly inertia in large organizations and for the general public.
Really surprised Safari accounts for 20% of the visitors on Gov sites but MacOS only 9.1%. Means 10.9% of those are Windows Safari users.
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!
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.
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…
If you want reliable numbers, nothing beats direct measurement for a comparable site. I've never worked on a site where traffic was anywhere near NetApps’ but I've found Akamai’s numbers to be reasonably close for sites which target a general audience:
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 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?
That's about as close as I could come without getting silly. Even oil companies like Exxon don't end up paying 40% (35% effective I think in their last fiscal year).
If you make $5+ million per year, and have nothing to offset any of that, you can end up paying over 40%. Pretty rare group of people likely to fall into that.