Geographic distribution of blog readers
Where do your readers come from? Readers for this blog are from all over the world. Some are of course regular readers, other come and go. This is what Google Analytics shows me of my blog visitors over the past month:
As can be seen, the visitors are from all over (most coming from the US). However, there are areas on the map, which are not generating any visitors (Africa). What could be the reason for that? Am I not writing content that is of interest to people from that region? Well, I found out why I am not getting visitors from that region.
Here is UN Data for Internet Users Density by Country from 2004 (here the bigger the dot, the more users per 100 people in that country):
Granted that this data is from almost 4 years ago, but it is probably still representative of the relative status today. If you notice, there are hardly any users in Africa. Which is probably why I don’t get any visitors from Africa.
This image is courtesy of GapMinder.org.
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April 6th, 2008 at 8:01 am
u r blog have readers across the globe
and analysis is done in a very nice manner
April 7th, 2008 at 1:03 am
thank you Ajay.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:16 am
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April 7th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
i have also subscribed for u r blog
April 7th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I was thinking that the even though there are a lot of Internet users in Europe, there are not a lot of readers from that region…
The reason probably is that my blog is English, and a lot of European readers prefer reading in their local language.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
The UN data is interesting but the growth in Internet users in India and China has been phenomenal in the past 4 years. IIRC, China has overtaken US in absolute numbers. However, I agree that Internet usage density is rising but not fast enough.
April 15th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
@Sayan,
Yes, sadly not nearly as fast as I would like…
April 16th, 2008 at 1:23 am
maybe the access to Internet will transcend the traditional console based UI- which require a relatively high level of education to operate / interact.
Have heard about the QuestionBox project?
http://www.questionbox.org/
http://www.awish.net/Asia/questionbox.html
http://mymediamusings.com/2008/03/04/the-human-internet-and-phillip-k-dick/
The Question Box is an intercom-like box set up in a public area in villages. Riding on existing phone networks, it has a button that connects users to an operator at a call center. The operator is located in front of an Internet-enabled computer. Users are free to ask the operator about anything that may interest them. The operator translates the questions into search queries, selects the most appropriate answers, and then translates the content back into the users’ native language at an understandable level
April 16th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Yes Sayan, that is certainly a probability. Not sure if you remember about the Hole in the Wall experiment and what came off it: http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html
There is a lot of hunger out there for information and tools to get this information. I hadn’t heard of the Question Box before, but it certainly is a better use of human power than Mahalo
April 16th, 2008 at 1:38 am
QuestionBox is inspired by hole-in-the-wall project .. I think some of the staff is the same…
I think it may be quite easy to monetize the QuestionBox project. Mahalo is weird but their so-to-be ex-video host Veronica Belmont is pretty good