For at least two years after I started this blog (October 2005), the preponderance of visitors was from Italy and the US. At the very beginning there were more Italian visitors than American. Not any more. Since I abandoned the effort of writing in Italian, the site's traffic has gone up considerably -- most notably, it leapt up after Tom Wark published a Bloggerview of yours truly last September (Thanks again, Tom). You do the math -- how many more people read English than Italian?
What shocks me is how low the percentage of Italian visitors has become.
I'm almost as shocked by how the US percentage has decreased lately -- from over 60% to just about half. Canada, the UK and Spain have surged.
By the way, the site traffic here was 3190 visitors and 5272 page views in January 2007. Last month the numbers were, respectively, 8288 and 12,829. Most of the growth came after the interview on Fermentation. August 2007 had just 4046 visitors and 5943 views.
And let's look at the languages on the visitors' computers. There are some surprises, like the presence of Arabic, for example.
This chart actually provides a better overview of the diversity of visitors' origins than the one above. French and Spanish have especially increased share recently.
Cool graph.
Posted by: Fredric Koeppel | February 19, 2008 at 09:53 AM