I am interested in finding web statistics (page views, visitors,
sessions, queries and the like) for government web sites, in particular for
government research databases such as Pubmed, NOAA, Genbank, Census
etc. I am not interested in statistics for eGovernment
initiatives. These have been recently been made readily avaiable but I
am not interested in these types of stats. I'm really just looking for
the government research type sites.

Thanks!

Hi aetchells!

Your question interested me, so I took a look.  Unfortunantly, it
would seem that many of the sites you specifically mentioned do NOT
have publicly accessible stats pages, many OTHER government sites do,
including many research sites.  Below I have a comprehensive list of
sites I found while doing research. Highlights:
http://boulder.noaa.gov/usage/ full usage stats for one major
laboratory of the noaa
http://www.usgs.gov/stats/ full stats for the US Geological survey
http://www.epa.gov/reports/server/ full stats for the EPA

Specifically pertaining to the sites you mentioned, I gathered
together contact information.  I am very sure the one for genbank
exists, as I get a permission denied error when trying to view the
stats page.  The rest may or may not, ask the web masters.
Census: webmaster@census.gov
GenBank/Pubmed: info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
NOAA: webmaster@noaa.gov

I would recommend emailing those addresses and asking for web usage
stats.  Their stats are not publicly accessible, and they would
probably want a good reason, which I don't have :P  Anyway, here's the
full list of sites I found, I hope they help in your research:

http://www.loc.gov/stats/
Library of congress web stats

http://thunder.nsstc.nasa.gov/www/wwwstats.html
Lighting and Atmospheric research at nasa

http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/www_stats/umesc_stats.html
Upper midwest Environmental Sciences Center

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/winddocs/wwwstats/
Computation Research Site

http://www.ornl.gov/its/wwwstat/wwwstats.html
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/webalizer/
US Atlas

http://wastenot.inel.gov/system/webalizer/
Idaho National Laboratory

http://www.usgs.gov/stats/
US geological survey

http://www.epa.gov/reports/server/
EPA stats

http://boulder.noaa.gov/usage/
Boulder subsite of noaa

http://www.hhs.gov/siteinfo/stats/
Department of health and human services

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/stats/
Forbidden access to site usage for genbank, email
info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov to possible get full stats

http://wastenot.inel.gov/system/webalizer/hydropower/
Hydropower research initiative stats

http://tac.bldrdoc.gov/usage/
Boulder NOAA lab transit site

http://drifters.doe.gov/stats
Bouy Research Project

http://globalchange.gov/help/stats/
Global Change

http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/organization/cb/
International GPS Service

http://fcf.grc.nasa.gov/stats/
Fluids and Combustion Facility

http://apps.opm.gov/support/archive/
Office of personnel and management

http://www.pnl.gov/eshs/log/00_06/eshs.htm
Pacific Northwest National lab

http://www.va.gov/server/reports/Mar02/ (replace month year as
necessary
Veterans Affairs

http://www.osha.gov/usage-stats/Sept99/Sept99_b.html
Old osha stats

Search Strategy:
Researched common web log analyzers, then searched for ".gov
webtrends" for example for each one.  Checked each page.
Then, checked random important agencies (and the ones you specified)
for robots.txt files, to see if stat pages are there but blocked from
robots.
Then, checked same sites with common site stat urls (the EPA stats
page was very hard to find)

Hope this helps!
jzig-ga

A great job. Not just delivering fish, but teaching me how to fish a bit better.

http://www.census.gov/

This is not the type of information I'm looking for. I'm not looking
for where to find stats. But I'm looking for the WEB stats on the
sites that provide the stats!

I'm not putting much time into this, but my approach would be the
following:
Since I would not assume the public distribution of this kind of data,
my guess would be that it's kept private unless you specifically ask
for it. So, for each site that you are interested in knowing the
statistics for, shoot out an email to the 'webmaster' until eventually
you find yourself communicating with somebody who access to the site's
weblogs. They could probably provide you with some statistics they've
gathered on their own site, or give you something like an Analog
report.

I know that statistics for the Library of Congress's website are available here:

http://www.loc.gov/stats/

best,

foust-ga