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BtP Statistics

Most Procoholic countries, 24 January 2009 – 24 January 2010


On 24 January 2009 we affixed a counter to the 'What's New' page at 'Beyond the Pale' to collect the nationalities of visitors to that page; it has been active now for exactly a year. The supposition was that people visiting 'What's New' were habitual fans actively looking for the latest Procol updates, which we have been publishing daily since October 1997. If the counter had been on the 'home' page it might have picked up merely 'casual trade', sent thither by search engines and so forth.

In the table below you will find the countries concerned, their populations, and the number of different computers  used for visiting the 'What's New' page in a single year (there were 86,490 different machines ... but far more page-visits, of course: if you read BtP once a day from your home computer, that registers as '1' on our counter).

The countries are ranked according to the proportion of the population who seem to be Procoholics: this is why the Cook Islands (with one visitor) come in above the USA (with almost 22,000 visitors): and why Denmark, that most Harum-oriented of nations, comes in at No 1.

Population

Country

Ranking

BtP visitors

5,484,723

Denmark

1

9194

4,644,457

Norway

2

3247

91,533

Jersey

3

48

60,943,912

UK

4

23705

9,045,389

Sweden

5

2866

7,581,520

Switzerland

6

1911

5,244,749

Finland

7

1066

16,645,313

Netherlands

8

2431

3,311,640

Oman

9

357

4,156,119

Ireland

10

399

8,205,533

Austria

11

685

12,271

Cook Islands

12

1

82,369,552

Germany

13

6387

303,824,640

America

14

21,923

58,145,320

Italy

15

4112

33,212,696

Canada

16

1865

10,403,951

Belgium

17

439

21,007,310

Australia

18

743

29,973

San Marino

19

1

40,491,052

Spain

20

990

62,150,775

France

21

1374

304,367

Iceland

22

5

307,451

Bahamas

23

5

3,958,128

Puerto Rico

24

57

7,112,359

Israel

25

86

40,482,000

Argentina

26

488

4,173,460

New Zealand

27

46

1,307,605

Estonia

28

14

281,968

Barbados

29

3

26,414,816

Venezuela

30

281

107,665

Micronesia

31

1

38,500,696

Poland

32

305

792,604

Cyprus

33

5

175,877

Guam

34

1

3,477,778

Uruguay

35

18

10,676,910

Portugal

36

54

718,306

Bahrain

37

3

4,491,543

Croatia

38

18

127,288,416

Japan

39

496

29,180,900

Peru

40

108

1,842,323

Botswana

41

5

1,128,814

Swaziland

42

3

196,342,592

Brazil

43

416

486,006

Luxembourg

44

1

2,007,711

Slovenia

45

4

10,722,816

Greece

46

18

48,782,756

South Africa

47

60

4,195,914

Costa Rica

48

5

10,220,911

Czech Republic

49

11

16,454,143

Chile

50

17

3,565,205

Lithuania

51

3

140,702,096

Russian Federation

52

88

2,245,423

Latvia

53

1

6,831,306

Paraguay

54

3

4,608,167

Singapore

55

2

9,930,915

Hungary

56

4

5,455,407

Slovakia

57

2

2,968,586

Armenia

58

1

3,309,679

Panama

59

1

10,159,046

Serbia

60

3

71,892,808

Turkey

61

21

3,619,778

Albania

62

1

3,971,941

Lebanon

63

1

25,274,132

Malaysia

64

4

22,246,862

Romania

65

3

45,994,288

Ukraine

66

5

109,955,400

Mexico

67

11

20,179,602

Cote D'Ivoire

68

2

65,493,296

Thailand

69

5

13,927,650

Ecuador

70

1

28,146,656

Saudi Arabia

71

2

15,340,533

Kazakhstan

72

1

237,512,352

Indonesia

73

13

23,382,848

Ghana

74

1

33,769,668

Algeria

75

1

34,343,220

Morocco

76

1

1,330,044,544

China

77

27

86,116,560

Vietnam

78

1

96,061,680

Philippines

79

1

172,800,048

Pakistan

80

1

1,147,995,904

India

81

1

 As noted on the original page we published after just one day of this survey, the table should perhaps take a language factor into account (clearly denizens of the UK,  New Zealand, America, Canada and Australia are likely to feel more at home at BtP – which is published in English, of which they all speak a version – than the average visitor from Poland, Japan, Venezuela etc).

We should also perhaps adjust on economic / infrastructure grounds: for instance America has 223 million internet users, and the UK 40.2 million. So there's quite a lot of work to be done to make such a table 'meaningful'! We hope nonetheless that it is not without a certain interest: it's not intended to prove anything in particular but it may provide food for rumination. 

It should be noted that the above figures relate to the 'whatsnew' page only. Overall BtP had 1,061,168 visitors last year, reading 4,481,718 pages (making 11,473,998 'hits' for those familiar with that term). The majority of traffic comes from people searching for Procol Harum information, and thus finding BtP. The information above represents those people who keep coming back to BtP. But there's no reason to believe that their nationalities differ much from the total traffic, though.

Lastly, here's the list showing countries ranked differently, according to the absolute number of computers visiting BtP in the year:

Country

Ranking

BtP visitors

UK

1

23,705

America

2

21,923

Denmark

3

9194

Germany

4

6387

Italy

5

4112

Norway

6

3247

Sweden

7

2866

Netherlands

8

2431

Switzerland

9

1911

Canada

10

1865

France

11

1374

Finland

12

1066

Spain

13

990

Australia

14

743

Austria

15

685

Japan

16

496

Argentina

17

488

Belgium

18

439

Brazil

19

416

Ireland

20

399

Oman

21

357

Poland

22

305

Venezuela

23

281

Peru

24

108

Russian Federation

25

88

Israel

26

86

South Africa

27

60

Puerto Rico

28

57

Portugal

29

54

Jersey

30

48

New Zealand

31

46

China

32

27

Turkey

33

21

Greece

34

18

Croatia

35

18

Uruguay

36

18

Chile

37

17

Estonia

38

14

Indonesia

39

13

Mexico

40

11

Czech Republic

41

11

Thailand

42

5

Ukraine

43

5

Costa Rica

44

5

Botswana

45

5

Cyprus

46

5

Bahamas

47

5

Iceland

48

5

Malaysia

49

4

Hungary

50

4

Slovenia

51

4

Romania

52

3

Serbia

53

3

Paraguay

54

3

Lithuania

55

3

Swaziland

56

3

Bahrain

57

3

Barbados

58

3

Saudi Arabia

59

2

Cote D'Ivoire

60

2

Slovakia

61

2

Singapore

62

2

Cook Islands

63

1

India

64

1

Pakistan

65

1

Philippines

66

1

Vietnam

67

1

Morocco

68

1

Algeria

69

1

Ghana

70

1

Kazakhstan

71

1

Ecuador

72

1

Lebanon

73

1

Albania

74

1

Panama

75

1

Armenia

76

1

Latvia

77

1

Luxembourg

78

1

Guam

79

1

Micronesia

70

1

San Marino

81

1

 


BtP nationality statistics a decade ago | A table like that above but relating to the first single day of the survey | The 2011 table