The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) reports on the first five months of FederalRegister.gov ("FR 2.0") website use in the blog post FederalRegister.gov Progress Report, 7 February 2011. Some highlights from the initial five months:
- There were 818,361 total visits;15,000 were mobile device visits.
- Visits came from 214 countries.
- The top five articles viewed were: Coverage of Diseases Associated with Herbicides (Agent Orange); Genetic Non-discrimination; Medicare Physician Fee Schedule; General Schedule Locality Pay Areas; and Regulation Z, Truth in Lending.
- "RSS feeds are popular, but users have also requested 'old school' email subscriptions. A user-configurable email subscription feature will be added in late February or early March 2011."
The OFR blogger, Michael White, also observes:
The most searched for articles relate closely to recent actions that also appeared in the popular media...For us, the perfect circle of public information would be for users to read articles in the public news media, have that media include links to the underlying regulatory and policy documents in FR 2.0 (we have short links for every document), get alerts on issues of continuing interest, send comments to the official Regulations.gov dockets, and more easily view other public comments from our central point of access.
Related SLA/DGI post: Archives Launches New Federal Register Blog, 5 February 2011.
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