Look at the code. It uses a 16-YEAR-OUT-OF-DATE Adobe library.
All the functions do is rotate images in a carousel. They aren't even real numbers, that's why you can't copy them. It's fake counters made out of pictures not data. (Not to mention the US treasury has no public API to pull such data from, anyway).
The main code: https://www.usdebtclock.org/GeneratedItems/CSScriptLib.js
NOT TO MENTION, the site runs Google Ads.
This person is making a fortune on traffic while putting out fake information.
The site is run by CHRONO NUMERIC LABS LLC, which is a fake LLC in Michigan that has the same address as 100s of other fake LLCs.
CHRONO NUMERIC LABS LLC https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_mi/801727644
336 W FIRST STREET STE 113, FLINT, MI, 48502 https://www.bizapedia.com/addresses/336-w-first-street-flint-mi-48502.html (Only displaying the top 25 matches out of 250 total matches)
You think wrong. Half at least 25% of boomers and Gen X think it's the official Fed website because it says "US" in it. People are morons.
Where exactly are you getting such a specific % from? Do you have telepathy?
I will agree that it's widely cited, but everyone knows its inexact.
Why would it be half of 25% instead of 12.5%