Maybe not surprisingly, Cath gets a lower proportion of US visitors compared to this blog. My last 500 visitors have come from a greater variety of countries though (17 for Cath vs. 21 for me). However, I hypothesize that Cath's lower number of countries is attributable to a (presumably) much higher visit rate. In other words, her last 500 probably come from what, a couple of days (?), whereas at the low posting frequency I've been maintaining lately, it takes almost two weeks for me to get 500 visits. I imagine she gets a much broader audience by virtue of having a bigger audience. Her non-American-ness probably contributes as well, but I bet her awesomeness is the real reason. I think we'd need to sample a longer time span and use visit rate as a covariate to know for sure. :)
Anyway, interesting stuff! I wonder if most English-language science related blogs have a mostly American readership, and if it makes a difference if 1) the author lives in the US or 2) the author is not American. I'm sure I've heard that the overall blogosphere is largely American, but I'd think that would be somewhat less true for science blogs, since science is such an international business.
2 comments:
Awww! (blushes).
My 500 were indeed from the last 2.5 days!
I'm sure most people will have a bias towards their local area, even if they're not explicit about where they're blogging from - there would likely be more common interests as regards politics / funding structures / food / sport / music / culture etc. that would bring in more local visitors. My hockey pool might have skewed the Canadian visitor count, for instance!
I hope we get to see a few more bloggers' stats, this is fun!
Good points about attracting locals.
I agree that this was a fun idea. Now I'm particularly interested in seeing stats from bloggers outside of North America.
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