Specifically, according to a list that accompanied the map, here are the 10 highest countries in terms of readership of this blog:
...Country.......Pageviews
United States..........1044
France......................167
Russia.......................161
United Kingdom.........92
Ukraine......................48
Germany....................38
Australia....................26
Poland.......................24
Turkey.......................20
China.........................17
I have no idea when this snapshot of my blog was taken (today? last week? last month?) or what period of time the figures are supposed to cover (a day? a week? a month?), but one clear fact emerges nonetheless:
Outside my own country, I’m a hit in the former Soviet bloc!
I mean, I really am! Add together Russia (161), Ukraine (48), Poland (24), and half of Germany (38/2 = 19) and the total comes to 252, leaving France (167) and the United Kingdom (161) and everyone else in the dust.
The map surprises me, however, because I frequently see the flags of Canada, New Zealand, Indonesia, India, and even those of Italy, Mexico, Norway, Argentina, Viet Nam, and the Union of South Africa in that Feedjit Live Traffic Flow thingy in the sidebar. Where are those readers? Huh? Huh?
Perhaps Blogger’s algorithm is a bit faulty, producing flawed results.
But until we know that for sure, our advertising director has suggested that we reconsider where we will be spending our advertising dollars, not to mention our travel/vacation dollars, in the future.
After all, the squeaky wheel ought to get the oil.
To help you get the sour taste of dry business charts and statistics out of your mouth, here, from 1941, in ever-popular black and white, is the motion picture How Green Was My Valley, complete with subtitles in Spanish (1 hour, 54 minutes, 13 seconds), and I’m not even kidding.
