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by adenylyl 706 days ago
The US government does run its own self-hosted analytics platform (https://analytics.usa.gov), which the USPS does in fact use. Which makes it all the more questionable that they were additionally using third-party analytics.
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Offtopic, I chuckled that the top* city visitors come from is Ashburn.

That's definitely just a GeoIP database picking up AWS traffic.

* (in the last 30 minutes, as of now)

> The data come from a unified Google Analytics account for U.S. federal government agencies known as the Digital Analytics Program.

Well…