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Shutdown Illustrates How Fast US Gov't Can Update Its Websites
An anonymous reader writes "Despite what we hear about how much the U.S. government is struggling with a website, it is reassuring that most of government entities can update their websites within a day after they are asked to. This conclusion is the result of research done by the Networking Systems Laboratory at the Computer Science Department of the University of Houston. The research team tracked government websites and their update times, and found that 96% of the websites were updated within 24 hours after President Obama signed HR 2775 into law, ending the Government shutdown. Worth noting that two websites took 8 days to update. It is interesting that the team was able to use the shutdown as an opportunity to study the efficiency of the IT departments of various parts of Government."
to take something down than to make something new.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
... if there was a real shutdown, nobody would have been paid to put "shutdown" notices on websites.
This is a ridiculous comparison. The data are from two completely different proceedures, from a technical perspective.
Taking a functional government website, like say Astronomy Picture of the Day
To make it 'not work' all they have to do is whip up a basic "this site shutdown due to..." with a few HTML tags and its is "taken down due to the shutdown"
That's all...a few lines of HTML and a redirect!
Second, the criticism of the Obamacare website in the media is not representative of the ***ACTUALL*** technical problems.
Politics aside, the website problems were **routine IT work**...its not an excuse, but **management** is to blame for not scheduling testing with enough time before rollout...
So, this data is doubly unusuable...but it makes sense...
**of course** sites like Astronomy Picture of the Day were up in 24 hrs after the shutdown lifted!!!!! It just took a few lines of code!
Thank you Dave Raggett
Who said anything about this being unique to Obama? I think it is everyone's patriotic duty to question the "official" story being told by the Administration. If the Democrats had a little more testicular fortitude, maybe they would have questioned Bush administration's "intelligence" about WMDs in Iraq.