Every now and then, I start poking at the stats in Google Analytics, and I almost always find something interesting. For example, in the last week, this site has been visited twice by someone from Mauritius, four times by someone from Iran, and six times by someone from Kyrgyzstan. I’m being read by somebody in a country I can’t even pronounce.
Google identifies visits from 61 different contries (well, 60 countries, plus “Satellite Provider”). Just over 75% are from the US, and adding Canada, the UK, and Australia accounts for better than 90% of them. But that still leaves an amazing number of countries where at least one person has looked at something I wrote. It’s a real living-in-the-future moment.
I’ll post the whole list below the fold, because it’s kind of interesting to look at. I’m not sure it means anything, but it’s cool to know that stuff I dashed off in ten minutes of procrastinating before work is getting looked at in Ghana, Algeria, and Estonia.
If you’re outside the top four countries on the list and reading this, drop a comment and let me know how you found the site, and what you think of it.
- 1 United States
- 2 Canada
- 3 United Kingdom
- 4 Australia
- 5 Germany
- 6 France
- 7 Sweden
- 8 Denmark
- 9 Finland
- 10 Netherlands
- 11 India
- 12 Belgium
- 13 New Zealand
- 14 Spain
- 15 Ireland
- 16 Japan
- 17 Norway
- 18 Brazil
- 19 Singapore
- 20 South Africa
- 21 Israel
- 22 Switzerland
- 23 Italy
- 24 Austria
- 25 Kyrgyzstan
- 26 Portugal
- 27 Europe
- 28 Bulgaria
- 29 Taiwan
- 30 Greece
- 31 Slovenia
- 32 Romania
- 33 Poland
- 34 Iran, Islamic Republic of
- 35 Satellite Provider
- 36 Mexico
- 37 Kenya
- 38 Chile
- 39 Korea, Republic of
- 40 United Arab Emirates
- 41 China
- 42 Luxembourg
- 43 Malaysia
- 44 Philippines
- 45 Turkey
- 46 Iceland
- 47 Argentina
- 48 Mauritius
- 49 Czech Republic
- 50 Hong Kong
- 51 Bahamas
- 52 Pakistan
- 53 Bangladesh
- 54 Thailand
- 55 Lithuania
- 56 Vietnam
- 57 Ghana
- 58 Algeria
- 59 Croatia
- 60 Egypt
- 61 Estonia
I decided to poke in for the first time in years, from Sweden.
You got two turn-tables and a microphone!
Greetings from Brazil, I’ve got here from a link in Cosmic Variance a couple of months ago, been reading ever since.
I am from Brazil and I am a PhD student in Physics/Astrophysics. I am not sure how I found Science Blogs and/or Uncertain Principles, but I think it was through Cosmic Variance. I probably populated my RSS reader with science blogs (and comics) when I was writing my Master’s thesis. 🙂
Anyway, this is one of the blogs that I still kept there, and I enjoy very much reading about almost everthing you post: academia, travels, physics, music, books.
this is all the way from India .. and like most of the gang here, found my way here through science blogs. There was a list of science blogs published recently, and you featured fairly prominently.
Google tells me that I’ve got nearly 100 countries. I think that’s pretty awesome, to have so many. The power of the internet!
I’m located in France, though I’d rather be counted in the 38th country, to which I should return soon. I started reading blogs through The Loom (in the old location) and judging from my file of bookmarks, U.P. was among the first twenty or so blogs I bookmarked (I was following links from one blog to another, and somehow landed here). Now I’ve become a SB-holic, checking the “last 24 hours” page several times a day and opening most of the posts 🙂
Reader from South Africa here, although I doubt I’ll appear in your logs as I read it through Google Reader, so that probably registers as a US access.
Not sure how I first came across this blog, as I read all the Scienceblogs.
Hi from Germany,
since as a biologist I am interested in the ID trouble in your country I came across Panda’s Thumb about two years ago. Since there are so many links to Scienceblogs over there I guess I was directed via this way to your site.
Actually, I don’t go directly to your site but rather scan the “latest 24 hours” section of Scienceblogs. If your headers sound interesting I’ll go to your blog (please keep using reasonable headers because I really hate it if headers sound interesting but the posts don’t fulfill the promices)
Hi from Germany as well.
I got here because, before moving to Germany, I got my bachelors in Physics in Boulder (used to work at JILA – small building lots of Nobel prizes). I really like ScienceBlogs and was lamenting the fact that physics (and chemistry) seem to be under-represented in relationship to the life sciences. Then I found your blog linked through one of the other posters (probably Shelley Batts).
The rest is history.
BTW. Please more stupid lab/scientist stories.
Hi from Israel
Got here few months ago searching for physics/astronomy blogs
An astronomy grad student
Hi from Mauritian blogsurfer. I can’t remember how I came upon your blog.. might be from Not Even Wrong. Your blog gives a different story of the academia, which is sometimes refreshing. And you have some cool stuff too.
I’m a double major physics+maths graduate (attended Melbourne Uni), to start postgraduate studies soon. I’m not sure whether I’m the only one checking your blog from Mauritius. Hopefully, there might be someone else, which would be great!
Keep on rollin’!
Another Swede; I blame (ab)usenet.
Hi
I might be your visitor from Norway. A Link from one your article was forwarded to me.
I am from Canada. While may have seen a post on before, I only really read it semi regularly when it became a part of the nerdy smorgasbord of science that is ScienceBlogs.