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Ask PG: Unique visitors by country

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Can you share the percentage of traffic to HN by country?

Curious to know if that percentage is semi-accurate to the real % _of_hackers/country. Anyone have a study/stats? Please share.

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I have no idea, unfortunately. We've never tried to analyze anything about the traffic except the number of unique visitors and page views per day.

CO2stats would know though, since they keep track of where people are to analyze their power sources. I'll ask them.

have you considered using google analytics?

I don't know why he wouldn't have. Google analytic really pushes everything else in the market out just because of the price.

I personally avoid tools like these out of respect for my users' privacy. Log analysis is fine, having their data absorbed by Google is not. Also, using GA creates additional lag. Many times have I waited for a page to finish loading with the Google Analytics URL in the status bar.

Here's the geographic breakdown of traffic to my site from HN. It's a small sample size, but hopefully it's better than nothing.

United States - 52, Australia - 3, India - 2, United Kingdom - 2, Argentina - 1, Canada - 1 , Israel - 1 , China - 1 , Russia - 1

Australia > India > UK ... that's interesting !!

The stats for my site are similar too. Again, only a small sample, but interesting:

United States - 47 Australia - 13 United Kingdom - 8 Canada - 6 New Zealand, Romania - 2 India, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, China - 1

Here is the breakdown on our site, 10,400 visits over the last 9 months:

United States - 6,634

Canada - 722

United Kingdom - 643

Australia - 241

Germany - 231

India - 186

Netherlands - 120

France - 107

Sweden - 96

Ireland - 73

Argentina - 1? That's me!

No, that's me! I think he's talking about his own site though, not HN.

I would expect it is skewed towards English speaking countries.

Alexa says (for ycombinator.com, of which 95% is HN)

USA - 52.8%

India - 12.3%

UK - 5.3%

Germany - 5%

Canada - 3.5%

No, I don't claim it to be accurate :)

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