Stat-USA website administrators did not regard a lack of policy guidance from OMB, NARA or other information management agencies to be a problem. On the contrary, they maintained that a looser policy environment allows a flexibility well-matched to the dynamism of the current Web, and best suited to meeting client needs. Current federal website guidance is based on traditional document models. Multimedia documents and interactive websites may challenge information policies based on traditional views. Whether the model being pioneered by Stat-USA is transferable to other websites is an open question.
More study is required to examine costing issues of federal websites providing fee-based services.
It is useful to collect experiences of specific government website developers which may contribute to knowledge that can be more generally applied. Mistakes costly in terms of time and dollars might be avoided. The data collection techniques and instruments developed and tested in this project can be used by federal Webmasters to improve their websites. The inclusion of user-based assessments are essential to developing high quality and useful websites. Thus, this research assists federal officials' deployment and use of Web-based information resources and services.