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The USA's most popular OS and browser

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Source: https://analytics.usa.gov/

 

The US government runs a custom version of Google Analytics on the nearly 4,000 websites run by government agencies. The publicly available data gives insight into both how people are accessing the internet as well as what is most commonly accessed.

 

For example at the time of writing Chrome is the most popular web browser with 34.9% and Windows 7 is the most popular OS with 41.6%.

 

 

What is almost more interesting though is the figures on which sites are being accessed most frequently and the insight this gives into peoples lives.

For example the most frequently accessed website is the IRS (specifically tax refunds)  followed by two different weather pages. Showing that the two most important things in peoples lives are their tax refunds and the weather.

 

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I'm surprised desktop out-numbers mobile by such large margin, when accessing government websites.

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I'm surprised desktop out-numbers mobile by such large margin, when accessing government websites.

 

Here's a hint: take a look at the windows versions: 41.6% on 7 that means close to half the people are still using a desktop from 2009 meaning it's mostly just people on tight income that get the cheapest emachines or gateway desktop they could at like 200 bucks back in those times.

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Here's a hint: take a look at the windows versions: 41.6% on 7 that means close to half the people are still using a desktop from 2009 meaning it's mostly just people on tight income that get the cheapest emachines or gateway desktop they could at like 200 bucks back in those times.

Does laptop counts as mobile or desktop when using at home or in office? 

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Does laptop counts as mobile or desktop when using at home or in office? 

Most likely desktop.

 

 

Here's a hint: take a look at the windows versions: 41.6% on 7 that means close to half the people are still using a desktop from 2009 meaning it's mostly just people on tight income that get the cheapest emachines or gateway desktop they could at like 200 bucks back in those times.

Or maybe they don't want to upgrade to W8/8.1? 

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Does laptop counts as mobile or desktop when using at home or in office?

I'm pretty sure this doesn't do a distinction between office or home, only laptops or desktops, so yeah must workplaces have desktops good point.

Most likely desktop.

Or maybe they don't want to upgrade to W8/8.1?

That's a tiny percentage of PC users. Most people buy prebuilt and never upgrade the OS

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Here's a hint: take a look at the windows versions: 41.6% on 7 that means close to half the people are still using a desktop from 2009 meaning it's mostly just people on tight income that get the cheapest emachines or gateway desktop they could at like 200 bucks back in those times.

Not necessarily, it could just mean people aren't buying new desktops because the one they have now is fine. 

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I recently switched over to chrome over firefox. I dont know why I did though... I just tried chrome one day and havent closed it since.

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That's a tiny percentage of PC users. Most people buy prebuilt and never upgrade the OS

Your assumption is wrong-- there are those who buy prebuilt and never mess with it, but that doesn't account for even a fraction of the 42%.

 

The biggest single fraction of windows 7 users are businesses. Source: every engineer at my company have a <6 mo old computer, all running windows 7. This is because the slight changes in functionality that windows 8/8.1 bring absolutely do not justify the time (i.e., lost revenue) it takes to re-learn how to use the computer and the new UI.

 

Your other claim, that people are using desktops from 2009, is also patently false in business land: ours are all haswell/broadwell i7 or Xeon, quadro/firepro, including our laptops. The business perspective is that your computer must make money, and anything that costs you money (i.e. learning a pointlessly changed UI) must be avoided. Most of us here have Win 8/8.1 computers at home, and the amount of hatred for that OS is quite amusing. 7 is still used because it is frankly better than 8.1.

 

We actually have quite a few Win XP and earlier machines on dedicated lab equipment, because they work and don't need to be fancy or newer. Windows 7 will be here for a LONG time in the business world.

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Corporate PCs are virtually all prebuilt too that doesn't negates the fact that custom built PCs account for a very tiny % which is what I meant.  

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Corporate PCs are virtually all prebuilt too that doesn't negates the fact that custom built PCs account for a very tiny % which is what I meant.  

 

Ehh... I'd say more like 40-50% are prebuilt. Most companies let their engineers configure their workstation the way that will let them work most efficiently, and that rarely is an off the shelf configuration. For people doing little more than MS office work would fall under your prefab statement more than engineers/scientists/programmers would IME.

 

Anecdotally here, but all my gamer friends with high end custom rigs, who enjoy upgrading components frequently, still run 7 and avoid 8 like the plague (and in all cases tried 8 and went back to 7). I'm not surprised at all that 7 is still around and doing well.

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Your assumption is wrong-- there are those who buy prebuilt and never mess with it, but that doesn't account for even a fraction of the 42%.

 

The biggest single fraction of windows 7 users are businesses. Source: every engineer at my company have a <6 mo old computer, all running windows 7. This is because the slight changes in functionality that windows 8/8.1 bring absolutely do not justify the time (i.e., lost revenue) it takes to re-learn how to use the computer and the new UI.

 

Windows 7 will be here for a LONG time in the business world.

 

Yep, where I work they just finished installing about 100 new computers, all of them have Windows 7 installed.

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Yep, where I work they just finished installing about 100 new computers, all of them have Windows 7 installed.

Same.

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I'm assuming they chose to omit porn sites from the top 20? :P

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I'm assuming they chose to omit porn sites from the top 20? :P

 

I wasn't aware that the government operated porn sites...

 

However, I am aware that people don't actually read anything other than the title...

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It makes me sad to see that NASA is on the bottom of that top 20 list.

Consider how many government websites there actually are, then be happy that NASA made the top 20.

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Lordy Lord so many people using internet explorer............AWAY DEMON AWAY........

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Lordy Lord so many people using internet explorer............AWAY DEMON AWAY........

Its not that bad anymore, made it simple to download another browser lol

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It makes me sad to see that NASA is on the bottom of that top 20 list.

 

The US Government runs a custom version of Google Analytics on the nearly 4,000 websites run by government agencies

 

It makes me pretty happy to see that NASA is on the list.

 

 

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It makes me pretty happy to see that NASA is on the list.

I would prefer that it was number 1 on the list.

 

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