Nielsen//NetRatings reports that more than one-third of all Internet users visited a government site last month. In total, traffic to federal government websites jumped 26% from December 2002 to
February 2003 to nearly 44.9 million surfers. Garnering more than 9 million additional unique visitors from home and work over this three-month period, government organizations are harnessing the
power of the Internet to communicate with Americans.