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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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Breakdown: By device type: Mobile 53.7% Desktop 44.1% Tablet 1.9% By browser: Chrome 48% Safari 36.2% Edge 6.4% Firefox 2.8% My personal conclusions: Tablets remain a niche product, Firefox is dead, and Edge will be dead in a few years if it can't eat more market share, which it won't.

The problem is that a lot of Firefox users block google analytics, so it would not surprise me that Firefox is very much underrepresented.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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post #52

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US is not the world. Just felt like it had to be stated.

currently it states that 56.3% visitors there are from outside the US.

It's currently nighttime in the US, so that's not too surprising.

But it doesn't mean that the overall fraction of visitors from outside the US is that high.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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post #17

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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

Isn’t it open source? If the company behind it dies I’ll just compile it myself.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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post #64

Yes, the only place with less visitors than the ‘Department for Housing and Urban Development’ is the ‘National Science Foundation’. Sign of the times?

But why would a regular person visit those sites? I hold a PhD and I think I visited the nsf website <50 times during my entire academic career.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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

COVID tests, I assume.

"Free of charge" pen testing more like. You may have missed the news but since yesterday there aren't even any commercial flights between China and the US anymore, they were all cancelled.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

US is not the world. Just felt like it had to be stated.

currently it states that 56.3% visitors there are from outside the US.

The people that surf to US gov sites (even from outside the US), IMO, are not a very good sample of the world's web users.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

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post #5

From the data at https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/browsers.json , Microsoft Edge has more than 2x the users of Firefox (322,890,632 vs 143,040,483).

124 people still rocking Netscape!

Or bots. When I still cared about visitor statistics 10+ years ago, I saw unrealistic amounts of visitors using old versions of Netscape, browsers on Amiga and other niche systems. They were probably all bots in disguise.
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