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Re: Number of people on government websites now

#71
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!

and 2039 are on "whatever you want". That's kind of browser I want to use.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#72
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).

What's 'Mercary_d'? 4 million page views over 90 days and haven't even heard of it yet. Same for 'Welltory'.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#73
post #3

Firefox's usage percentage is upsetting. I hope they don't die, but this looks really bad for them.

I used to love Firefox, but fell out of love majorly. First there's a still long-standing bug (5 years and counting) that newly opened tabs don't have access to localstorage. Then 96.0 broke a lot of our code somehow. Cross-checked with 95 and everything still worked fine.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#75

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.

Really you assume there are as many Linux users as there are Windows users, or am I misunderstanding you?

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#76
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.

Im a researcher in a government lab and I don't think Ive ever been on it.

NIST? Definitely

LLNL MPI tutorials? Obviously.

But NSF… never?

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#77

Chromebooks have high (unit) sales (some say) but I've yet to see any signs that they are used a lot. Here only 1.4% of visits are from ChromeOS.

Keep in mind that the majority of all fed gov visits are USPS tracking pages and the like. Chromebooks are majority used by students so I would expect this.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#78
post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If the company behind it dies then development on it will likely drastically decrease and it will quickly become a less attractive option. There's probably a reason why you chose Firefox over any number of other open-source browsers that don't have much development activity.

Re: Number of people on government websites now

#79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

124 people still rocking Netscape!

and 2039 are on "whatever you want". That's kind of browser I want to use.

"whatever you want" is the User-Agent in the top answer for "Change user-agent for Selenium web-driver" on Stack Overflow :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-age...

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