Top Government Websites by Visitors:

• Top FederalWebsite:  ED.gov
• Top State Website:  CA.gov
• Top City Website:  NYC.gov

On the eve of the open government directive, I wanted to start thinking about to measure how well an agency does Open Government.  Afterall we are not working on Open Government to say we are doing it, but to serve the mission of a specific agency and the government as a whole.  A rough measure of service though very imperfect is how many people are visiting a website monthly.   At least you can do an ROI on the cost per visit and see whether the site is actually attacting visitors.   To start thinking about this, I did a survey of all the .Gov websites I could find and determine the number of visitors based on publically available visitors for the month of August which I could find for free (not claiming these stats are the best but they are a start).  Then I organized the list with the sites with the most visitors in one month at the top.

Not doing a full analysis now but some interesting observations: 8 Cities make it to the top 200. The top city is Nyc.gov with about 1.5 millions visitors in a month.  Dc.gov is #2 with about 300K per month.    The top state is California at 8.5 millions visitors in a month.   » Read more: Top 200 .Gov Websites: Thinking about Metrics and Performance Management for Open Government