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Actually what strikes me the most interesting is the fact that Stack's largest audience is still from the US. I would think that by now SO would see (much) mor
by yuvadam 16y ago
Actually what strikes me the most interesting is the fact that Stack's largest audience is still from the US.
I would think that by now SO would see (much) more international traffic.
- wladimir 16y agoWell, it does get quite a lot of international traffic. For example, a lot of my colleages (here in the Netherlands) are using it. The site is very famous with programmers. I think that the uptake from the large, non-English countries is less because, for example, in my experience, Russians usually prefer Russian sites to ask their questions,
- _delirium 16y agoWell, the U.S. has the 2nd-most internet users after China, and there aren't many Chinese SO users, so I'm not surprised the U.S. ends up as the largest single country. If we compare some general internet-user stats by continent (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm) to SO's respondents, we get: of internet % of SO Asia 42.0% 6.3% Europe 24.2% 37.8% US/Canada 13.5% 42.4% Latin America/Caribbean 10.4% 4.1% Africa 5.6% 1.5% Middle East 3.2% 2.6% Oceania/Australia 1.1% 5.0% The two biggest differences are: 1) Asians from countries other than India basically don't use SO; and 2) users from English-speaking countries use SO more than everyone else (there's between 3x and 5x more people from each of the US, UK, Australia, and Canada as their proportion of internet users).