digitalgov.gov
digitalgov.gov is a United States federal government hostname. Readers usually meet it the same way this index did, as an unexpected outside domain in the request list of a government website they were reading. This index holds no vendor record for it, no category and no tracking classification, so the description here is limited to what was measured. It was contacted on 53 of the 5,294 sites measured, 1% of them, and the pages it appears on sit near the bottom of this index on every measure of weight it records.
Twenty requests on the median site
The median site contacting digitalgov.gov issued 20 requests in total, 87th of the 88 companies in this index counting down from the heaviest. Its median site contacted 5 companies, 86th of 88, and carried 1 tracker, 81st of 88. On three of the four weight measures this index records, sites carrying this hostname sit within one or two places of the bottom of the table. Federal web estates are built under procurement rules and accessibility requirements that keep third-party scripts scarce, and it shows in the numbers.
No consent banner on any of the 53
Not one of the 53 sites carried a consent tool this crawl could identify. The list of banners seen alongside this hostname is empty. That absence is a fact about the pages the crawl measured, not a judgement: consent banners are a response to particular legal regimes and audiences, and a domestic federal information site is not the same setting as a European publisher.
Contact inside the window on 51 of 53 sites
51 sites, 96.2% of them, recorded early contact inside the window measured here, a share that ranks 22nd of the 88 companies. The median site had 4 companies arrive inside it and none afterwards. va.gov is the exception visible in the example set: 3 companies contacted, not one of them inside the window, and a first request at 2,161 ms.
Google on 52 of the 53 sites
Google was present on 52 sites, 98.1% of them, which is near-total coverage. After that the list is distinctively governmental: siteimproveanalytics.com on 15 sites and siteimproveanalytics.io on 15 (28.3% each), jsDelivr on 13, Crazy Egg on 12 (22.6%), amazonaws.com on 9, qualtrics.com on 9, cloud.gov on 7, and Cloudflare and addtoany.com on 5 each. A federal page in this snapshot typically carries one analytics stack, one accessibility and quality tool, and a survey widget.
Every example site ends in .gov
All twelve example sites recorded for this hostname are federal domains: cdc.gov, nasa.gov, noaa.gov, fda.gov, usda.gov, state.gov, epa.gov, ftc.gov, va.gov, nps.gov, ed.gov and sec.gov. The spread across them is narrow by the standards of this index. nasa.gov contacted 3 companies, all inside the window, with first contact at 237 ms, the earliest recorded on any site here. ftc.gov contacted 6, all inside it, at 615 ms. noaa.gov is the heaviest at 8 companies, 4 of them inside the window. The busiest page in the set contacted 8 companies, and the quietest, cdc.gov, contacted 2.
Reading a light profile
A low company count and a low request count are not automatically a good result, and this page does not present them as one. They describe pages that reach out to few outside parties, which reduces the number of relationships a visitor is entered into without saying anything about how the remaining ones behave. The 51 sites with contact inside the window are the part of this profile worth examining on any individual page.
| Site | Companies | Before consent | First contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| cdc.gov | 2 | 2 | 1711 ms |
| nasa.gov | 3 | 3 | 237 ms |
| noaa.gov | 8 | 4 | 1341 ms |
| fda.gov | 5 | 4 | 516 ms |
| usda.gov | 2 | 2 | 1327 ms |
| state.gov | 4 | 4 | 927 ms |
| epa.gov | 5 | 4 | 1325 ms |
| ftc.gov | 6 | 6 | 615 ms |
| va.gov | 3 | 0 | 2161 ms |
| nps.gov | 3 | 2 | 742 ms |
| ed.gov | 5 | 5 | 789 ms |
| sec.gov | 5 | 5 | 663 ms |
Seen on the same pages
Companies most often contacted by the same sites. Co-presence only — the crawl records what arrived, not who called whom.
- GoogleTogether on 52 of these sites
- siteimproveanalytics.comTogether on 15 of these sites
- siteimproveanalytics.ioTogether on 15 of these sites
- jsDelivrTogether on 13 of these sites
- Crazy EggTogether on 12 of these sites
- amazonaws.comTogether on 9 of these sites
- CloudflareTogether on 5 of these sites
Questions
What is digitalgov.gov?
A United States federal government hostname. This index carries no vendor record, category or tracking classification for it; it is measured as an outside domain that pages contact, seen on 53 of the 5,294 sites measured.
Why do federal sites carry so few third parties?
The measurement shows the result, not the cause. The median site here issued 20 requests and contacted 5 companies, placing it 87th and 86th of the 88 companies in this index on those two measures.
Did any of these sites show a consent banner?
None of the 53. The crawl identified no consent tool on any of them, so the list of banners seen alongside this hostname is empty.
What else appears on the same pages?
Google on 52 of the 53 sites, then siteimproveanalytics.com and siteimproveanalytics.io on 15 each, jsDelivr on 13, Crazy Egg on 12, and amazonaws.com and qualtrics.com on 9 each.
How quickly is the first third party contacted?
The median is 825 ms, 15th of 88 counting down from the slowest median. The earliest on any of these sites was 237 ms, on nasa.gov.