Geo-stats Sep1-14

After the unblocking of blogspot in mainland China, we have more reliable site stat data. Below is the numbers for Sep 1-14. See also previous data (Apr-Jul) and (Apr-May) for comparison.

	Geography		Visits		Apr-Jul	Diff
1	USA		28.9%		37.0%	8.1%
2	China (PR)		14.6%		0.4%	-14.2%
3	HK SAR		13.7%		14.7%	1.0%
4	UK		6.0%		5.5%	-0.5%
5	Canada		4.1%		5.8%	1.7%
6	Australia		3.9%		4.4%	0.5%
7	Taiwan		3.4%		3.5%	0.1%
8	Singapore		3.3%		4.6%	1.3%
9	Japan		1.9%		3.5%	1.6%
10	India		1.8%		1.8%	0.0%
11	S Korea		1.5%		1.4%	0.0%
12	Malaysia		1.4%		1.6%	0.2%
13	Germany		1.0%		1.7%	0.7%
14	Netherlands		0.9%		1.0%	0.2%
15	Thailand		0.9%		0.5%	-0.4%

As can be seen, the opening of GFW in the mainland has spared at least 8% of the readers the trouble of detouring via proxy based in USA, and maybe via Canada, Singapore, Japan as well. This confirmed my hypothesis earlier.

The language system (OS) are aligned with the geo-stats now.

	Geography		Visits
1	English		61.2%
2	zh-cn (Chinese simplified)		14.9%
3	zh-tw (Chinese traditional)		13.0%
4	ja (Japanese)		1.6%
5	en (English)		1.4%
6	ko (Korean)		1.4%
7	es (Spanish)		1.1%
8	de (German)		0.9%
9	fr (French)		0.8%
10	ru (Russian)		0.7%

• One small surprise is that zh-cn % almost exactly equal that of mainland visitors. (I expected a significant number of visitors inside PRC use English OS, apparently I was wrong.)
• For traditional Chinese OS (HK+Taiwan), the numbers are also consistent, with about 4% all visitors (i.e. 1/4 of HK+Taiwan) using English OS.

Total number of countries/areas reached 136 (124 in Jul 25, but the number below is not 12, as there maybe some redefinition such as Montenegro, Europe, "not set" and "satellite ISP", -- see previous post). Welcome new readers (most of them probably come here on google search or wiki link to my GDP/pop-scaled map post):

• Bahamas, Nicaragua, Zambia, Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta), Gambia, Guyana, Mauritius, Pakistan

Of course, there is map.

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