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."

Comments

Re:The private sector can do it faster

[Anonymous Coward]

I LOVE stories about Benghazi. Those little black ribbons are like membership cards for the Low IQ Society.

Re:Depends on what you mean by "Update"

[Ol Olsoc]

Was there any technical reason why your website needed to be taken down?

Sorry Citizen. Despite several attempts, we have not been able to provide the Tea party utopia of infinite services with zero pecuniary input.

Probably some bug in the system put in by liberals.

But really, the outrage by some that any services provided by our tax dollars went away during the shutdown is sort of.. odd. Here is the effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Du5FHBQ-w

Really, a Teabagger telling a park service employee they should be ashamed of themselves for something he helped bring about. I see Nelson Muntz telling a kid he is bullying to "stop hitting yourself"