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    "title" : "Analytics.usa.gov: New Features and More Data |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Analytics.usa.gov: New Features and More Data","summary" : "As of writing this post, 25,225 of the 124,878 total visitors on federal government websites participating in the Digital Analytics Program (DAP) are NOT located in the United States. And as a result of","date" : "2015-12-01T13:00:53-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tlowden" : "Tim Lowden","gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks","eric-mill" : "Eric Mill","julia-winn" : "Julia Winn","gabriel-ramirez" : "Gabriel Ramirez"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/12/2015-12-01-analytics-usa-gov-new-features-and-more-data.md","slug" : "analytics-usa-gov-new-features-and-more-data","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/12/01/analytics-usa-gov-new-features-and-more-data/","content" :"\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/12/600-x-290-AnalyticsGov-Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-12.25.jpg\"\n    alt=\"A screencapture from the analytics.usa.gov dahsboard showing 124,878 people were visiting U.S. government websites at that moment.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs of writing this post, 25,225 of the 124,878 total visitors on federal government websites participating in the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/guides/dap/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDigital Analytics Program\u003c/a\u003e (DAP) are NOT located in the United States. And as a result of a new location feature on the expanded \u003ca href=\"https://analytics.usa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eanalytics.usa.gov\u003c/a\u003e, you are free to check for yourself how many current users are from outside the country, anytime you’d like.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2015/03/19/white-house-open-source-analytics/#lw5sIJFfwqq9\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBack in March of this year\u003c/a\u003e, DAP released \u003ca href=\"https://analytics.usa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eanalytics.usa.gov\u003c/a\u003e in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"https://18f.gsa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e18F\u003c/a\u003e, which provides the technical support to take DAP data and turn it into a \u003ca href=\"https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/03/19/how-we-built-analytics-usa-gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ebeautiful, open-source, public dashboard\u003c/a\u003e. We have been overwhelmed with positive response via \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/18F/status/578563466018963456\" target=\"_blank\"\u003esocial media\u003c/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/03/19/the-most-popular-government-web-sites-ranked/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003epress coverage\u003c/a\u003e, and thoughtful comments on \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGithub\u003c/a\u003e. To our delight, a few other folks used portions of our code to stand up their own web analytics dashboards, including the city governments of \u003ca href=\"http://analytics.phila.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania\u003c/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https://bouldercolorado.gov/stats\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBoulder, Colorado\u003c/a\u003e. We even got \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/12/POTUSdap.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePresident Obama to check it out\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe’ve recently added a few new features to \u003ca href=\"https://analytics.usa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eanalytics.usa.gov\u003c/a\u003e: location data, download data, and expanded downloadable files.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"location-data\"\u003eLocation Data\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe’ve created two new location charts on the dashboard: one showing the cities providing the most visitors and one showing U.S. vs. international traffic, including a breakdown of the countries with the most visitors outside the U.S. Both of the visualizations reflect data in real-time (updating every minute), so you can wake-up to see which countries are visiting U.S. government websites while you are asleep! Additionally, while most of the time you’ll see U.S. cities on that particular chart, it is not limited to the United States. If there is a world event and for some reason a large proportion of people in Mumbai, India (for example), are visiting U.S. government websites, the chart will reflect that.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/12/600-x-548-Visitor-Locations-Right-Now-by-city-Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-12.23.jpg\"\n    alt=\"A screencapture of Visitor Locations Right Now\u0026#39; which displays the top 10 cities on the left, and on the right, compares the percentage of visitors from the United States (79.8%) to International ones (20.2%), which includes a list of the top 15 countries.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne thing to keep in mind about location information is that since we anonymize IP addresses of visitors at the earliest possible point, the location data is not accurate enough to pinpoint exact locations of visitors. With IP addresses anonymized, we rely on the network domain and service provider to determine a relative location. As a result, people visiting from a suburb may appear as visiting from the closest city.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"download-data\"\u003eDownload Data\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can now see not just the popular pages and sites along the right-hand column, but also the most frequently accessed “downloads”.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo important things to understand about downloads:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHere, “downloads” just means “things other than web pages”, like PDFs and spreadsheets. It doesn’t necessarily mean a visitor chose to save the file, since many browsers open PDFs and other files directly in a separate tab.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDownloads are logged when visitors click links to them from a page that participates in the Digital Analytics Program. It does not include visits from direct links to files, such as links that were emailed, posted on social media, or posted on websites that do not participate in DAP.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePDF files seem to dominate the list, but other extensions in the category include .doc, .xls, and .mp3, among others. The data reflect the number of times the file was accessed in the past seven days.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/12/587-x-161-USCIS-Top-Downloads.jpg\"\n    alt=\"The Top Downloads section shows the total file downloads over the last week on government sites. This example shows that the application for Naturalization PDF from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) had 48,909 downloads.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou can click on the page title, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.uscis.gov/n-400\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eApplication for Naturalization | USCIS\u003c/a\u003e,” to go to the page where the file is located, or you can click on the file name, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/n-400.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003en-400.pdf\u003c/a\u003e”, to download (or open) the file right from \u003ca href=\"https://analytics.usa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eanalytics.usa.gov\u003c/a\u003e!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"expanded-downloadable-files\"\u003eExpanded Downloadable Files\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/12/250-x-510-Download-the-Data-Screen-Shot-2015-11-25-at-12.29.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Download the Data provides links to various data files that are updated daily, and every minute.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\nThere’s a limit to how much data we can display on the page for you, so we have greatly expanded the downloadable data reports. We offer downloads of various types of data (some in CSV format and some in JSON) so that you can work with the data yourself!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreviously, the downloadable files generally only contained the same data that was displayed on \u003ca href=\"https://analytics.usa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eanalytics.usa.gov\u003c/a\u003e. Now, some of the files include hundreds or even thousands of rows, where applicable. We have set lower limits on the larger datasets to remove the “long tail” effect. We list pages that have least 10 visitors on the page in real-time, and domains which have received at least 1,000 visits in 30 days.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the coming months, we will continue to expand and improve on \u003ca href=\"https://analytics.usa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eanalytics.usa.gov\u003c/a\u003e. We hope you like what we’ve done so far, but there is more to come. We’re continuously evaluating new ideas, and welcome your feedback \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/18F/analytics.usa.gov/issues\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eon GitHub\u003c/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"mailto:dap@support.digitalgov.gov\" target=\"_blank\"\u003evia email\u003c/a\u003e. Tell us what you think, and what you’d like to see in the future.\u003cem\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/guides/dap/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDigital Analytics Program\u003c/a\u003e currently tracks analytics data on over 4,000 U.S. federal government websites across 45 agencies. To learn more or to find out how your agency/website can participate in the program, please \u003ca href=\"mailto:dap@support.digitalgov.gov\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eemail us\u003c/a\u003e. For more on 18F, visit \u003ca href=\"https://18f.gsa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e18f.gsa.gov\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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