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by amitport 1620 days ago
It's not dead. US gov sites do not represent the entire web.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

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US gov sites may not represent the entire web, but the platforms that the entire population uses to access government websites, does. People don't use a different browser for the State Department and for Facebook. The data presented here is actually reflective. If anything, it's conservative. Not many teens are looking up tax forms or passport renewal forms (their parents do it for them). And these young users are less likely to use anything other than Chrome and Safari.
US is not the world. Just felt like it had to be stated.
currently it states that 56.3% visitors there are from outside the US.
The people that surf to US gov sites (even from outside the US), IMO, are not a very good sample of the world's web users.
It's currently nighttime in the US, so that's not too surprising.

But it doesn't mean that the overall fraction of visitors from outside the US is that high.

The US has more spending power than most of the rest of the world.