The US government's web traffic(analytics.usa.gov) |
The US government's web traffic(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:
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.
Our pitch is pretty simple: Fix Stuff That Matters.
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
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?"
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.
In my experience, most people are trying to get the biggest refund possible, rather than minimizing the amount they under/overpay.
Nice to see IE gets updated a lot quicker in the US than it does in the UK (though there aren't browser usage statistics available for Gov.UK sites I don't think...)!
I would love to see some history to understand what's growing, what's in decline, and how rapidly.
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).
(5.4% / 25.8% = 20.9%)
They can't get a number sorting algorithm right? :/
I think W7 is the de facto for businesses now.
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 realization.
For what it's worth, I run Windows on a virtual machine to do some stuff and I use 7.
Or NetApps' market share numbers are crap, and StatCounter's (and others') numbers are a lot closer to reality - which is that Chrome dominates the web browser market.
http://percentoftheinternet.com/windows http://percentoftheinternet.com/chrome http://percentoftheinternet.com/ie
...etc...
Raw data is here: https://api.chartbeat.com/cbtotal/?v=2
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:
Most people whinge about IE8 support, yet their mobile experience is awful. 25% of these hits are mobile, we see close to 40-50% for us, with much higher for hospitality clients (bars, restaurants), though they usually get <3k sessions a month.
e: Realise this comes off as confrontational. Genuine questions!
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 USAJOBS, or explains about that painful tar baby) at the bottom of the main 18F page?
There are several ways you can plug in to the big problems we’re solving. You'll drive vision for a better government, working alongside policymakers, agency leaders, and program teams to build world-class digital services.
Product Managers -- We are looking for product managers who can balance user needs with business requirements and apply technical knowledge to bring world-class digital services to the American people. You'll need to manage complex projects to hit tight deadlines without sacrificing quality. If you feel comfortable reviewing engineering design documents, project plans, and contracts, and you can communicate technical concepts to various audiences up and down the command chain, we're looking for you.
Engineers -- Our engineering leads will drive technical teams to build large-scale, innovative products that serve the American people. You need to be an expert strategizer, fixer, and builder with the engineering chops to roll up your sleeves and push your own code. You'll provide leadership on major technology projects, manage project teams with focus and vision, contribute to product strategy, and support strong teams of engineers.
Designers -- We are looking for designers from an array of disciplines — experts in research, UX, service design, product strategy, visual/UI design, and content strategy. Whatever your flavor, you embrace complexity and revel in drawing simplicity and clarity out of thorny challenges. You are a relentless advocate for the needs of users. You will help lead teams and prototype, test, and iterate on services and products. You will help build the Federal Government’s capacity to deliver services to the American people.
I'm curious: where is that work, geographically?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11...
Employers by definition want to pay employees as little as possible, only enough so they stay.
Secondly, the specific effects of repealing a tax doesn't make it any less real.
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
Here are some screen shots from my analytics.
OS: http://i.imgur.com/oZNOxCK.png
Browser: http://i.imgur.com/84DGWHz.png
If this were truly the case, they wouldn't be using Windows. It's mostly inertia in large organizations and for the general public.
As good as *nix/Apple stuff is, is it really feasible to run it at scale across an org, without building custom deployment tools each time?
HN could use the user's ISP to guess whether they were home or at work, then correlate that with OS data.
That's actually an interesting idea!
