That is very interesting. Are there any other nations above 1000 visits a month? You listed just the top ten, but I'd be interested in seeing a little farther down the list.

Italy, Sweden, Ireland, China, Austria and Poland also have had over 1000 visits in the last month.
Argentina, Slovenia and New Zealand are close behind in the 900s

Very interesting that the USA accounts for over half of the visits, and that the UK accounts for only 10%...

Nice work figle!

Yeh, but we still provide the best conversation :)
Top browsers:
1. Firefox - 72k visits
2. IE - 47k visits
3. Safari - 12k visits
4. Chrome - 7k visits
5. Opera - 3k
All others under 500 visits

(Again, visit statistics are for the last month)

Given that half the visits are American, why is none of the anti-NHS America crowd in the Health service thread?

becuase they know they are wrong :p

cgwhite, I think that the approx 4.5:1 ratio of US:UK visitors is pretty near what I'd expect, given that the US has a population roughly 5 times as great as that of the UK! I'm most surprised by the high proportion of visits that are made by Spaniards.

China lets people on a site like this? With all the, well, all the freedom? A guy I know is in China now and he can't even watch TV shows on his computer. It's illegal.

China realises that diplomacy fans are not to be censored.

Why would China mind people conspiring to war in Europe?

You know, for the most part it's illegal to watch TV shows on your computer in the US. At least, it's illegal to download them. Isn't that how most people get TV on their computers?

hulu.com

Or you can watch them on Itunes or a host of other legal means

Yeah, he emailed the house list serve to ask us to tape the whole season of 24 for him. You apparently can't get information OR entertainment easily in China.

We don't really miss him.

Most means are illegal, like watchsp.com but alot of networks have their shows online like USA and adultswim have a few of their tops shows online.


www.adultswim.com/video for family guy, robot chicken, king of the hill, the dinky crow show, and more!!

Korimyr, also a lot of stations have their own web player. Fox and ABC have the best ones, imo.

http://www.fox.com/fod (for Fox)
http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing (for ABC)
http://www.southparkstudios.com/ (all of southpark)
http://www.crackle.com/ (free shows produced entirely for this website)

*"this website" being Crackle.

South park studios is lame, too many comercials though xD

It has fun games though

www.southparkzone.com =)

Seriously though, it's hard to watch TV in China on your television? I mean the vast majority of TV links link to places like tudou and other chinese hosted websites. I don't think your friend is looking hard enough. My cousins always go on Chinese websites for their pirating needs.

I'm seriously surprised at the representation here from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands. I never imagined they trumped Australian representation.

Ah, found the percentages! All tables are in the form Type / 'Visits' / Percentage
Browsers:
1. Firefox 72,167 50.13%
2. IE 7,447 32.96%
3. Safari 12,176 8.46%
4. Chrome 7,487 5.20%
5. Opera 3,221 2.24%
=============
Operating system:
1.Windows 118,344 82.20%
2. Mac 17,232 11.97%
3. Linux 4,408 3.06%
======================
Also, congratulations everyone. According to the statistics, over 90% of the people who visited the site in the last month returned after this!

Wow...I have to say I actually expected way more linux than that.

@llama: I don't think anyone actually uses Linux at work for anything that would let you play Diplomacy, though.

Not true, at least for me. :) I have a linux desktop machine at work. However I happen to do my at work phpdiping on my Windows machine. At home though, linux all the way.

I used to use linux at home, but then I got lent this laptop, which is technically far superior to my old Linux box. So, reluctantly, I've switched back to Windows.

Where there any really weird or obscure browsers that showed up (iCab anything like that?) even if only a few times?

In the last month the phpDiplomacy project has been visited from (in order):
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari
Chrome
Opera
Mozilla
Camino
Mozilla Compatible Other
Playstation Portable
Konqueror
Playstation 3
SeaMonkey
BlackBerry9530
BlackBerry9000
HTC-8500
Blazer
NetFront
HTC_P4550 Mozilla
Netscape
Firefox 1.0.7
Googlebot
HTC_Diamond Opera
HTC_P3650 Mozilla

People still use Netscape?

Oddly enough, that was my reaction, too.....
But look at how low on the list it is! I gotta know who it was.

a PS3? Wow.

Where do you get the stats from.... the google tracker?

If I enter the site, close the browser then login again later I assume that counts twice even if from same IP address?

PSP lol that's awesome

I tried logging on with lynx; that was a disaster.

Yes, these ones are from google analytics, so I agree there are issues with them. I haven't tested them or tried to find the level of accuracy you get from it, but I think the script would be clever enough to pick that up?
Netscape - apparently, although do remember that some obscure browsers choose to claim to be something their not (which is what the Mozilla Compatible set will be)

Prepare to see those Camino numbers go up — my browser of choice!

Interesting list. I'm always amazed when I see browsers I've never heard of or can't identify (SeaMonkey? Blazer? NetFront?), and always enjoy seeing ones I haven't heard of in a while. This plus a number of other recent events is sort of re-sparking my interest in alternative browsers just to mess around with. Omniweb just went freeware, and I haven't checked in on Shiira in a while, and I remembered hearing the iCab finally stopped development or something a while back, which I hadn't even realized had made the transition from OS 9 to OSX (it was a browser I remember likeing in OS 9 back in the day).

My fiance uses Camino on her old laptop, in an attempt to use less memory than the last version of FF she can use. (This is a pretty old laptop, that actually wouldn't turn on for a year and a half or so, and then suddenly mysteriously started working again, so we're a little weary of upgrading the OS, or opening it up to put more RAM in it for fear of upsetting whatever delicate balance allowed it to start working again in the first place.) sadly the thing is so old and crotchety, and has so little RAM that even if Camino is using less memory than FF it's basically indistinguishable from FF in terms of performance.

The funny thing is I'm always looking at obscure browsers, but I always end up back with Safari at home and FF at work. It's fun to play with them though!

DrOct, SeaMonkey is what they now call the Mozilla suite, which is what Firefox is the browser only fork of.

It's a bloody stupid name, but so's Firefox really.

DrOct -

For some reason I actually looked up iCab a few weeks ago. They're back up and running — all built on WebKit now. You might have your wife try it as an alternative to Camino on a slow Mac.

I like Safari at home as well, but an application I work with currently doesn't work as well as it should with WebKit browsers, so I had been using FF3. I like FF3, but I miss the services menu, keychain access, the styling of form elements, etc.

For me, Camino is the perfect blend of Cocoa-goodness and Gecko rendering. And the Camino 2 beta is a huge improvement — it's got a great "Tab Overview" feature that I really dig. I do find myself using Safari more and more, though.

@MatGB thanks for the info!

@Duffster - For some reason it hadn't even occurred to me to suggest she try iCab. I'll have to look into that. Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure I didn't read that iCab was discontinuing but that the developer was switching to Webkit for the rendering engine, so they could focus on the other aspects of the browser. I remember being amazed that up to that point they were still developing their own rendering engine. I may definitely have to investigate!

I'm enjoying messing around with Safari 4 so far, we'll see how I feel about it in a week or two, of course most of my browsing these days is at work, where I'll probably stick to FF3, so it may take me longer than it used to to see how I feel about it as my primary browser.

Hong Kong? Who do we have from there other than Wombat?

There are loads! If I remember rightly Wombat,Flashman,Gobbledegook and a load of their friends all play here.

I'm HK too.

@figlesquidge:
I used to use linux at home, but then I got lent this laptop, which is technically far superior to my old Linux box. So, reluctantly, I've switched back to Windows.

If it's so technically super, presumably you've got tons of unused hard-drive space (or alternatively you've just filled it with tons of video and have realised that you need to start putting that on DVDs). So either way (either now or after you start burning disks) you have room for a Linux partition. (I'm assuming that you've been lent it for a long enough period of time that this is a reasonable thing to do; in fact, it's a very clean way to borrow a computer for an extended period, since you can wipe out the entire partition when you're done.)

I say this not to proselytise for Linux (although Windows sucks of course <g>) but since you said that you switched ‘reluctantly’.

Yes, I have considered putting on a dual boot.
Still, I hadn't thought that I could just say "Well I'll wipe the partition when I return it" as a method of getting it done.