Tagged “analytics”

Thanks once again to Matt Hobbs and GOV.UK for sharing their website visitor stats publicly so that we can learn from them. As ever, lots of juicy detail in Matt’s thread.

GOV.UK stats for January (1-31):

- Chrome - 45.08%

- Safari - 36.82%

- Edge - 7.38%

- Samsung Internet - 7.08%

- Firefox - 1.35%

- Android Webview - 0.72%

- Safari (in-app) - 0.61%

- Internet Explorer - 0.5%

100% = 187,969,863

#browserstats

—Matt Hobbs, @TheRealNooshu

In particular, their “usage by device type” stats see mobile at ~67%, Desktop at ~30.5%, Tablet at ~2.5%.

In terms of comparative traffic, according to Simliar Web’s Top 10 most visited UK websites list they’re hovering around #10.

A simple snippet for tracking page views on your website without having to add external libraries. This should save bandwidth and have a positive impact on the loading speed of a website. I’d be cautious about using this in production for now, but one to keep an eye on and try out at some point.