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Firefox's usage percentage is upsetting. I hope they don't die, but this looks really bad for them.
I don't understand why large companies ban Gmail but allow Chrome. They should be using Firefox instead.
Why is the government using Google Analytics (which is now illegal in some countries) instead of self hosting an analytics solution.
Back in my day, the mantra was "Information wants to be free", and laws limiting freedom on the internet and freedom of information were looked down upon.
It's very useful, and I've referred to this site many times over the years (probably bc a couple sites I've worked on are in the top 50!).
For those people wanting other awesome and informative govt sites, take a look at https://www.usaspending.gov/, which has all government contracts data easily searchable (and bookmarkable).
https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-go...
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.
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.
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
1.1% is way too high. I bet they didn't filter out all the scrapers that poll gov't websites. Hmm I wonder if just parsing the HTML still works like it did 8 years ago when I had to scrape the USPS: https://github.com/NavinF/USPS-scraper/blob/master/USPS_scra... As long as the USPS only allows API requests from browsers (as opposed to the much more common situation where you need to update the status of every trackin…
The USPS has long had an API. I don't remember it being fun to work with, but it has a lot of functionality.
The undocumented tiny ratelimits and threat of bans for server-side API users (while no such ratelimits applied to the HTML pages) forced pretty much every app to scrape their HTML server side.
From my README which quotes their old docs: “Note: The United States Postal Service expressly prohibits the use of Web Tools "scripting" without prior approval. Web Tools scripting can be defined as a technique to generate large volumes of Web Tools XML request transactions that are database- or batch-driven under program control, instead of being driven by individual user requests from a web site or a client software package. The USPS reserves the right to suspend server access without notification by any offending party that does not have prior approval for Web Tools scripting. Registered Web Tools customers that believe they have a legitimate requirement for Web Tools scripting should contact the ICCC to request approval.”
What an asinine process.
Under "Visitor locations right now," 1% are coming from Graceville. As far as I can tell, that's either a town of 4k in Australia, 2k in Florida, or there are two Gracevilles in Minnesota with a few hundred people. Any idea what's up?
It might be a default set of coordinates used for geolocation of some IPs used in a larger region (or even state). This sort of thing has in fact caused trouble in the past at least once: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/09/maxmind-m... > IP mapping isn’t an exact science and so MaxMind assigns a default address when it can’t identify its true location. That address just happened to be the Arnolds’ pro…