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analytics.usa.gov

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analytics.usa.gov

The US federal government's web traffic.

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What it is

The US federal government's web traffic.

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Observed mentions: 2015-03-19 14:20:16 UTC to 2022-01-20 18:19:22 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	3
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	3

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EricE·Jan 20, 2022

Sure - but as others pointed out there is a pretty good blog post that goes over it: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-go... And you can see the code and development lifecycle on github: https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov Pretty lightweight for what it is.

In Number of people on government websites now

wslack·Jan 20, 2022

Other sites reusing the code are listed in this README: https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov#readme

In Examining the covidtests.gov architecture

Axsuul·Jan 20, 2022

That's so cool! It really feels like tech best practices have made lots of headway in the past 5 years within the U.S. government. Looks like this analytics frontend was brought to us by 18F, with the codebase even hosted on GitHub[0]. Other governments in the US also seem to be using this like the city of Los Angeles[1]. 0. https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov 1. http://analyticsdash-46.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

In Examining the covidtests.gov architecture

acdha·Feb 8, 2020

Think a little deeper about that: the government doesn’t need to sell things but that doesn’t mean that the people building sites don’t care about knowing who’s visiting, what they do, or how the site performed. For example, when do you stop spending more money supporting old browsers? There’s even an open source project around the public analytics.usa.gov dashboard: https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov

In Time.gov was upgraded today

konklone·Nov 1, 2016

It's open source. ;) https://github.com/18f/analytics.usa.gov#analyticsusagov

In Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users

raarts·Aug 2, 2016

Close. It's 18F Digital Services Delivery. The website says the code is on github [1] [1] https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov

In Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites

yarapavan·Apr 1, 2015

Jekyll source code: https://github.com/GSA/analytics.usa.gov/

In How we built analytics.usa.gov

konklone·Mar 20, 2015

As of launch day, we started specifying a 5 minute cache time: https://github.com/GSA/analytics.usa.gov#deploying-the-app We might increase that over time, but having fixes take effect within 5 minutes while the site is under the spotlight is a nice thing.

In How we built analytics.usa.gov

ceworthington·Mar 19, 2015

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

In The US government's web traffic