What open data is available about the number of visitors, type of browsers, etc. of U.S. Federal websites? Is there both historical and real-time web analytics data available to the public?
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The US Government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP) has been working on unified Web analytics for federal agencies for a couple of years
Recently they launched a nice web site that displays the top data: https://analytics.usa.gov/
Philadelphia's
http://analytics.phila.gov/
albert
- 11,885
- 4
- 30
- 57
Ultrasaurus
- 213
- 2
- 7
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You can find some stats for individual sites by searching for the names of weblog analyzers that generate HTML reports and restrict by agency domain. For example:
The current administration lifted the restriction on 'sharing data with third parties' if there was some sort of a benefit ... so some agencies started using Google Analytics or similar.
For example, see the following sections of NASA's privacy policy:
Automatically Collected Information
This website uses Google Analytics Premium. ...
...
Providing Information to Third Parties
NASA may share information with private organizations as part of a service that provides NASA users with increased capabilities or functionality on the site.
I see nothing in their policy that forbids them from sharing data if there isn't a benefit, so it's possible that a FOIA request might be able to get access to it.
