Here’s an interesting map of BP traffic via Google Analytics:
And the top 25 cities:
#2, "Not set" is likely AOL users.
Alameda is # 20? Really?
BP World Traffic
April 23, 2008 5:15pm by Barry Ritholtz
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am i the only one from vienna, austria, europe (ok, u knew about vienna beeing in austria beeing in europe a.s.o what about a waltz?)
Singapore? That’s Jimmy Roger’s fan club.
Dallas #25? I want a recount.
Moscow? An Americanski schpion? (me ;-()
I’m supprised our role model, Zimbabwe, had no hits.
Congrats as always.
Hi There! …thats me….down in the lower right hand corner next to Australia…yaaaa! Go New Zealand.
No Kalamazoo!!!????
OK, I only log on a couple times a day… I’ll have to increase the hits.
Is this by county or metropolitan area? I’d think Philadelphia and it’s surrounding counties would be in the top twenty. Look too me like the numbers favor larger counties out west that incorporated later.
Alameda, as in the city next to Oakland? I suppose it could be a tech hub.
Alameda and San Francisco are probably aggregation points for the East Bay and the Valley respectively. I read you regularly from both San Mateo (where I work) and San Francisco (where I live), but I don’t see anything Valley-related anywhere on your list. Unless all the locations between San Mateo and San Jose are counted separately, in which case you need a new counter.
Dude, AFRICA, is not feeling you!!!
Alameda is #44 for me. (But way, way fewer hits than you.)
hey,Paris France it would be me only ? noooo…
you can put new york and brooklyn traffic in the same bucket. it’s ok, really ;)
Chicago would be higher except…
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/index.jsp
Las Vegas >=1. Great stuff, keep it up!
Baghad Green Zone is crying out for wisdom – surely they have a hub?
Firefox + NoScript – google-analytics.com = I’m not in the map!
So, the totals are off by at least one.
La Jolla, CA in @ #20?
More hits than the entire San Diego MSA?
Must be all those LPL folks east of I-5.
Correction:
La Jolla, CA in @ #16?
More hits than the entire San Diego MSA?
Must be all those LPL and Ameriprise folks east of I-5.
Nobody in NY wants to be associated with Brooklyn , Queens , Bronx, Staten Island , Long Island or West Chester’s bridge-and-tunnel crowd ????
Firefox + NoScript – google-analytics.com = I’m not in the map!
Posted by: mhm | Apr 23, 2008 7:29:12 PM
ditto here
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Who’s the one spot in South America? Hugo Chavez reads your blog? …nice!
woot! like Simaon sayz go New Zealand.
And that is me in Buenos Aires….cool stuff Barry.
Representing Kings County here!
Never forget the Great Mistake of 1898!
ditto here – Representing JAMAICA! here 3 times a day!
Firefox + NoScript – google-analytics.com = I’m not in the map!
Posted by: mhm | Apr 23, 2008 7:29:12 PM
ditto here
Posted by: Mich(^IXIC1881) | Apr 23, 2008 7:57:14 PM
Brooklyn in da HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
big shout out to all my Brooklyn peeps…
Barry, what did you do to piss off the entire gulf coast?
Hey, don’t fergit Moose Pass, Alaska!
Scott….
frickin helarious!
University of Chicago here
I’m pretty happy with my fellow Austinites… definitely boxing above our weight in reading BP. I bet Dallas, San Antonio and Houston crush us on AmericanIdol.com, though.
This map helped me to analyze things in a better way.
Barry,
Weston,FL should blow your mind at #24. No joke, I grew up there when the city was originally built in 1985.
Originally, a heavily jewish suburb of Miami, has now turned into THE destination for well to do Venezuelans fleeing Chavez “socialization.”
Regardless, South Florida loves you Barry. From Boca Raton to South Beach, we love sitting on the beach and checking out the big picture.
viva la buena vida!!!
It is interesting how world wide your readership is. Congratulations on that. As a whiny Canadian though, what’s up with Vancouver ranking in the top 25 (Pop 2.25M in the greater Vancouver area) and Toronto not even making the grade (Pop 5.5M in the greater Toronto area). I really hate to think my eastern compatriots are so provincial as to be missing out on such a great site! Way to go Vancouver in any case!
Don
Oh, and what’s up with Greenland? Africa? Siberia? Not a lick of sense between them, it would seem.
I think I may make up a large portion of that Vancouver stat. I hit this site up many times a day.
Thanks again, Barry.
Where’s MS , Michael Schumacher ???
He can explain to us how this map is characteristic of some sort of Fed manipulation , Repo induced cash infusion , Tin-Foil Hat rant
La Jolla includes the reality-based (not to mention very-broad-banded) community at UCSD.
Alejandro, I thought the Buenos Aires hit was me, but I guess it isn’t a unique hit.
Barry, you have five cities on three continents from me so don’t look too deep into the stats.
Thanks for setting up this bizarro coffee house.
The Island of Hawai`i – on the Map!
Scott, did you have to go to school to learn how to write like a Lagosian gentleman?
That is hysterical! Even that very un-Nigerian-sounding-to-me “actually” stuck in the parentheses about Euros is just too funny.
Yeah, since when is Brooklyn a separate city from NYC. I mean the last time I saw it represented as different was in the opening credits of “Welcome Back Kotter” When it was the 4th largest city in America.
austin, holla!
Re: Fiske Silk,
Er, Houston is in @ #7, Austin is in @ #10.
Don’t know how much American Idol traffic we generate, but, a lot of us Houstonians spend time at websites tracking the mis-management of water resources in Travis and surrounding counties.
When ya’ll get going on your range war over dwindling natural resources, I’m sure the American Idol traffic here in Houston will drop off. There is nothing more entertaining than watching Class War going full-tilt boogie. The BMW & SUV set is going to lose, big-time.
Don,
East York and Weston are both parts of Toronto. They were separate in a two level government until about fifteen years ago.
I have noticed in the past that a lot of the information Google uses is seriously outdated and don’t take tables like this very seriously.
sargon TM
i’m in alameda, i check the site twice a day. … yes there are some tech companies here!
Thanks for not noticing me.
Missed me in Taipei. Heh heh. Feeling free today. Nice to be under the radar.
Hello from Alameda! Keep up the good work.
Juan
Do all GA traffic maps look the same? Barry, your Analytics traffic distribution map looks just like mine…with far, far more visitors represented in each dot.
By the way, some of you mentioned the lack of traffic in places like Africa, Greenland, Toronto.
It’s very likely that BP attracts some visitors in Africa; it’s just that GA sometimes does not show visitors from certain cities on the world map (for whatever reason, maybe due to relatively small traffic numbers). You sometimes have to look at the nation map for the city to show up.
Greenland is a funny one. I don’t think I’ve had a single visitor from the country yet. Toronto is another instance where people are likely to be reading, but the location might register as a nearby town/city such as Missisauga. I’ve noticed that this seems to be the case for most city areas (your connection might register from a nearby town or a different area altogether).