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Re:Number of people on government websites now by caaqil on Thursday January 20, 2022 @01:22AM (#30005468)
From the data at https://analytics.usa.gov/data/live/browsers.json, Microsoft Edge has more than 2x the users of Firefox (322,890,632 vs 143,040,483).
Re:Number of people on government websites now by gibolt on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:25AM (#30005831)
That makes sense considering Edge is a default browser on the most popular (desktop) OS, and this is from a random distribution of users.
Re:Number of people on government websites now by antisthenes on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:38AM (#30005927)
124 people still rocking Netscape!
Re:Number of people on government websites now by TonyTrapp on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:36AM (#30007600)
Or bots. When I still cared about visitor statistics 10+ years ago, I saw unrealistic amounts of visitors using old versions of Netscape, browsers on Amiga and other niche systems. They were probably all bots in disguise.
Re:Number of people on government websites now by reaperducer on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:02AM (#30009711)
Last week, one of those was me. I was messing with old VM images and was using .gov web sites for testing connectivity.
Re:Number of people on government websites now by deepstack on Thursday January 20, 2022 @06:58AM (#30007787)
and 2039 are on "whatever you want". That's kind of browser I want to use.
Re:Number of people on government websites now by dalbin on Thursday January 20, 2022 @08:02AM (#30008340)
"whatever you want" is the User-Agent in the top answer for "Change user-agent for Selenium web-driver" on Stack Overflow :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29916054/change-user-age...

Re:Number of people on government websites now by EricE on Thursday January 20, 2022 @01:11PM (#30012438)
I love it when people put the instruction for what to enter into a field instead of actually filling out the field.

I run into it ALL the time and no matter how you write instructions, at least 1/3 of people won't read them but just skim to what they think they need and then copy/paste. Ugh.

Re:Number of people on government websites now by ixnus on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:11AM (#30009832)
Also shows a shocking 90,832 users viewing who are users of 'BestBuy'.
Re:Number of people on government websites now by NV2k9JtLJpba5BN on Thursday January 20, 2022 @02:37AM (#30005920)
`totals.browser` contains user agents (or something similar).

Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?

Re:Number of people on government websites now by keewee7 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:04AM (#30006112)
>Why are there (personal?) email addresses in there as well? Who sets that as their user agent?

Might be some programming exercise. It's a common network programming exercise to build a HTTP client using bare sockets. But they don't look like student email addresses.

Re:Number of people on government websites now by mxuribe on Thursday January 20, 2022 @10:56AM (#30010503)
I think for respectful web scraping it is common/preferred etiquette to include some contact info.
Re:Number of people on government websites now by NavinF on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:41AM (#30006377)
Some APIs require contact info in the user agent header. For example, all calls to the reddit API are supposed to contain the dev’s reddit /u/username in the user agent.
Re:Number of people on government websites now by ricardobayes on Thursday January 20, 2022 @07:14AM (#30007916)
What's 'Mercary_d'? 4 million page views over 90 days and haven't even heard of it yet. Same for 'Welltory'.