Barbara K Iverson

This should be a must read for political journalists and public affairs reporters. They should agitate to get all levels of government to disclose similar analytics.The White House on Thursday introduced a publicly available analytics dashboard that keeps tabs on traffic stats from 3,800 government websites. In the dashboard, website analytics for some of the most-trafficked government sites are available in real time. At any given moment, you can see which websites are most popular — right now the IRS’ “Where’s My Refund?” page tops the list — and how many people are visiting these pages.