From Ken Adachi, Editor
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/top30countriesvisitingey11jul09.shtml
July 11, 2009

Top 30 Countries Visiting E-Y from May to July 2009 (July 11, 2009)

I always find it fascinating to note which countries are among the top 30 visitors to educate-yourself.org. The idea that people from 169 different countries even find their way to this web site is still utterly remarkable to me, as I had assumed that only English speaking countries would be the primary candidates among non American visitors, but my assumptions are turned upside down when I see countries from the Russian Federation, or Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Brazil, Greece, Japan, Mexico, or Argentina among the top 30 visiting countries. Holy Cow!

What's going on?

When I started to see the Russian Federation show up in the top 30 list some months ago, I just assumed it was mostly intel or military people downloading articles, but then I start to get e-mail from Russian readers and I asked myself: Is it possible that ordinary citizens living in Russia or the Ukraine are reading stuff posted to this web site? How many average citizens can speak and read English is these countries? I don't have to tell you that, other than a little bit of Spanish, most Americans can't utter 10 words in a foreign language, let alone read and understand web sites posted in a language other than English.

I was convinced by a German correspondent a couple of years ago that English is widely understood in Germany, so I could understand Germany being among the top 30, but Romaina? Bulgaria? The Ukraine? Croatia?

Perhaps the world is much more cosmopolitan than I had imagined. I guess it will have to remian a mystery for a time-or at least until I receive more e-mail from people living in those countries to know who is actually reading this site.

Interesting, all the same, to exchange thoughts with so many different people in such far flung corners of the world. The Internet is an amazing thing

Ken Adach.

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July 2009 (up to July 11)

Top 30 of 148 Total Countries
#	Hits		Files		KBytes		Country
1	355857	41.11%	275788	40.67%	19187752	41.20%	Network
2	223710	25.85%	175228	25.84%	11557999	24.82%	US Commercial
3	132694	15.33%	106914	15.77%	6869804	14.75%	Unresolved/Unknown
4	17038	1.97%	13343	1.97%	1218111	2.62%	Australia
5	13593	1.57%	10680	1.57%	931718	2.00%	Canada
6	12899	1.49%	10180	1.50%	763229	1.64%	United Kingdom
7	10072	1.16%	8682	1.28%	722029	1.55%	Greece
8	6520	0.75%	5035	0.74%	305668	0.66%	Netherlands
9	6209	0.72%	5074	0.75%	420728	0.90%	Germany
10	4854	0.56%	4219	0.62%	244405	0.52%	Non-Profit Organization
11	4671	0.54%	3696	0.55%	289745	0.62%	New Zealand (Aotearoa)
12	4341	0.50%	3289	0.48%	199986	0.43%	US Educational
13	4254	0.49%	3355	0.49%	204551	0.44%	Poland
14	3639	0.42%	3092	0.46%	199799	0.43%	France
15	3429	0.40%	3121	0.46%	180936	0.39%	Ukraine
16	3200	0.37%	2363	0.35%	142941	0.31%	South Africa
17	3120	0.36%	2396	0.35%	171569	0.37%	Brazil
18	3109	0.36%	2563	0.38%	161422	0.35%	Italy
19	2769	0.32%	2506	0.37%	166481	0.36%	US Military
20	2704	0.31%	2382	0.35%	125118	0.27%	Czech Republic
21	2692	0.31%	2295	0.34%	156479	0.34%	Mexico
22	2447	0.28%	1957	0.29%	129899	0.28%	Switzerland
23	2120	0.24%	1791	0.26%	132423	0.28%	Sweden
24	2074	0.24%	1521	0.22%	120262	0.26%	Japan
25	2042	0.24%	1718	0.25%	140907	0.30%	US Government
26	2000	0.23%	1595	0.24%	96765	0.21%	Belgium
27	1792	0.21%	1408	0.21%	91223	0.20%	Romania
28	1784	0.21%	1485	0.22%	105869	0.23%	Croatia (Hrvatska)
29	1721	0.20%	1336	0.20%	98878	0.21%	Argentina
30	1609	0.19%	1450	0.21%	63102	0.14%	Ireland

June 2009

Top 30 of 169 Total Countries
#	Hits		Files		KBytes		Country
1	1109377	39.85%	874927	39.36%	73973419	42.00%	Network
2	654726	23.52%	528168	23.76%	40345473	22.91%	US Commercial
3	435580	15.65%	357731	16.09%	24676415	14.01%	Unresolved/Unknown
4	60560	2.18%	48377	2.18%	4693004	2.66%	Australia
5	58505	2.10%	50647	2.28%	3559198	2.02%	Netherlands
6	45431	1.63%	35908	1.62%	3416579	1.94%	Canada
7	43595	1.57%	34775	1.56%	2940442	1.67%	United Kingdom
8	36156	1.30%	30721	1.38%	2263269	1.29%	Germany
9	24346	0.87%	18678	0.84%	1174683	0.67%	Poland
10	21720	0.78%	18531	0.83%	1762456	1.00%	Switzerland
11	19328	0.69%	16705	0.75%	977565	0.56%	Non-Profit Organization
12	17852	0.64%	14360	0.65%	943725	0.54%	Brazil
13	15234	0.55%	12807	0.58%	1026370	0.58%	Belgium
14	14840	0.53%	11661	0.52%	814560	0.46%	US Educational
15	13915	0.50%	10961	0.49%	980984	0.56%	New Zealand (Aotearoa)
16	13283	0.48%	11138	0.50%	778925	0.44%	Italy
17	12486	0.45%	10563	0.48%	898548	0.51%	Norway
18	11230	0.40%	9474	0.43%	791097	0.45%	France
19	10825	0.39%	8165	0.37%	634503	0.36%	Greece
20	9165	0.33%	7437	0.33%	509458	0.29%	Mexico
21	8906	0.32%	6997	0.31%	556857	0.32%	South Africa
22	8439	0.30%	7074	0.32%	627327	0.36%	Sweden
23	8292	0.30%	7326	0.33%	483417	0.27%	US Military
24	8018	0.29%	5807	0.26%	299923	0.17%	Russian Federation
25	7859	0.28%	6739	0.30%	482191	0.27%	United States
26	6507	0.23%	5128	0.23%	514801	0.29%	Japan
27	6473	0.23%	5244	0.24%	328772	0.19%	Romania
28	6154	0.22%	5140	0.23%	496193	0.28%	US Government
29	5581	0.20%	4836	0.22%	363549	0.21%	Czech Republic
30	5251	0.19%	4761	0.21%	211368	0.12%	Ireland

May 2009

Top 30 of 167 Total Countries
#	Hits		Files		KBytes		Country
1	1313556	39.68%	1044507	39.69%	66979127	40.96%	Network
2	783102	23.66%	631872	24.01%	37596821	22.99%	US Commercial
3	556815	16.82%	431335	16.39%	25371274	15.52%	Unresolved/Unknown
4	70542	2.13%	56074	2.13%	3761893	2.30%	Australia
5	57994	1.75%	46414	1.76%	3083951	1.89%	Canada
6	50565	1.53%	40068	1.52%	2479408	1.52%	United Kingdom
7	44500	1.34%	38370	1.46%	1942386	1.19%	Netherlands
8	35458	1.07%	30169	1.15%	1818783	1.11%	Germany
9	26219	0.79%	22738	0.86%	1469107	0.90%	Japan
10	22804	0.69%	19605	0.74%	1309741	0.80%	Greece
11	22583	0.68%	19399	0.74%	1089586	0.67%	Non-Profit Organization
12	21657	0.65%	17432	0.66%	1162797	0.71%	US Educational
13	18981	0.57%	16090	0.61%	818617	0.50%	Switzerland
14	16945	0.51%	13645	0.52%	887218	0.54%	Brazil
15	14687	0.44%	12293	0.47%	754957	0.46%	United States
16	14339	0.43%	10988	0.42%	707702	0.43%	New Zealand (Aotearoa)
17	13779	0.42%	10941	0.42%	677759	0.41%	Mexico
18	12852	0.39%	10799	0.41%	685995	0.42%	Poland
19	12326	0.37%	9179	0.35%	587248	0.36%	Singapore
20	11869	0.36%	9638	0.37%	629477	0.38%	France
21	11820	0.36%	9700	0.37%	672755	0.41%	Italy
22	11494	0.35%	8662	0.33%	539054	0.33%	South Africa
23	10115	0.31%	8844	0.34%	528535	0.32%	Czech Republic
24	9757	0.29%	8634	0.33%	551734	0.34%	US Military
25	9750	0.29%	8042	0.31%	566433	0.35%	Romania
26	7628	0.23%	6250	0.24%	391208	0.24%	Belgium
27	7225	0.22%	5837	0.22%	358318	0.22%	Russian Federation
28	6710	0.20%	5270	0.20%	338310	0.21%	Sweden
29	6547	0.20%	5956	0.23%	286111	0.17%	Ireland
30	6433	0.19%	5521	0.21%	360442	0.22%	US Government

 

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