On: The US government's web traffic

[joedavison]

On February 20, I had a story hit the front page of HN on a brand-new blog that didn't receive traffic from anywhere else.

Here are some screen shots from my analytics.

OS: http://i.imgur.com/oZNOxCK.png

Browser: http://i.imgur.com/84DGWHz.png

[hackmiester → joedavison]

For the amount of *nix people I see showing out on here, I'm surprised that it's only 10% - although for the Web in general, that's an absurdly high number, still!

[nitrogen → hackmiester]

Some percentage of Windows visits could be browsing at work, maybe?

[hackmiester → nitrogen]

Hmm...

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!