Alexa has now a new feature, at least it took me until today to discover it. At http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500, you will find a list of countries. Alexa is providing a list of web sites that Alexa believes them to be popular in that country. It is still not clear what the data basis for Alexas charts is. The most likely source is its toolbar which appears to have a feature that phones back to Alexa.
I have compiled a list of wikipedia's rank in the different countries, both sorted by ISO country code and sorted by the rank. When a country did not have wikipedia.org among its TOP 100 (pretty rare these days, might even be an indication of being blocked in some cases), it is marked as XX.
Data retrieved on April 14, 2006:
Sorted by ISO country code (and by Alexa's standards what a country might be) AE 39 AR 19 AT 08 AU 15 BE 15 BG 16 BH 45 BR 27 CA 12 CH 08 CL 21 CO 10 CR 25 CY 29 CZ 17 DE 07 DK 28 DO 27 EG 57 ES 14 ES 32 FI 16 FR 13 GB 12 GR 22 HK 97 HR 18 HU 24 IE 13 IL 13 IN 21 IR 27 IS 17 IT 13 JO 42 JP 30 KR XX KW 57 LB 73 LT 19 MA 35 MX 13 MY 18 NL 12 NO 17 NZ 08 OM 19 PE 15 PH 21 PK 10 PL 09 PR 12 PS 55 PT 11 QA 73 RO 12 RU 25 SA XX SE 21 SG 16 SI 18 SK 15 SY 42 TH 86 TR 45 TW XX UA 21 UK 12 US 14 VE 26 VN 67 YE 40 ZA 13 ZH XX
Same list, sorted by the rank itself:
07 DE 08 AT 08 CH 08 NZ 09 PL 10 CO 10 PK 11 PT 12 CA 12 GB 12 NL 12 PR 12 RO 12 UK 13 FR 13 IE 13 IL 13 IT 13 MX 13 ZA 14 ES 14 US 15 AU 15 BE 15 PE 15 SK 16 BG 16 FI 16 SG 17 CZ 17 IS 17 NO 18 HR 18 MY 18 SI 19 AR 19 LT 19 OM 21 CL 21 IN 21 PH 21 SE 21 UA 22 GR 24 HU 25 CR 25 RU 26 VE 27 BR 27 DO 27 IR 28 DK 29 CY 30 JP 32 ES 35 MA 39 AE 40 YE 42 JO 42 SY 45 BH 45 TR 55 PS 57 EG 57 KW 67 VN 73 LB 73 QA 86 TH 97 HK XX KR XX SA XX TW XX ZH
A couple of months ago, Kate gave some similar data about the distribution of web site requests among countries in relation to its population (or something like that, I can't find the URL at the moment). At a first glimpse at the data, I find it plausible. I also feel satisfied to see three countries with a large share of German speaking population at a top of that list (I hope this is not just because the level of infestation with alexa sp^wphonehomeware is particulary high there :)).
Mathias
You have ES listed twice--is one of them supposed to be EN, perhaps?
Nathaniel
On 4/14/06, Mathias Schindler neubau@presroi.de wrote:
Alexa has now a new feature, at least it took me until today to discover it. At http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500, you will find a list of countries. Alexa is providing a list of web sites that Alexa believes them to be popular in that country. It is still not clear what the data basis for Alexas charts is. The most likely source is its toolbar which appears to have a feature that phones back to Alexa.
I have compiled a list of wikipedia's rank in the different countries, both sorted by ISO country code and sorted by the rank. When a country did not have wikipedia.org among its TOP 100 (pretty rare these days, might even be an indication of being blocked in some cases), it is marked as XX.
Data retrieved on April 14, 2006:
Sorted by ISO country code (and by Alexa's standards what a country might be) AE 39 AR 19 AT 08 AU 15 BE 15 BG 16 BH 45 BR 27 CA 12 CH 08 CL 21 CO 10 CR 25 CY 29 CZ 17 DE 07 DK 28 DO 27 EG 57 ES 14 ES 32 FI 16 FR 13 GB 12 GR 22 HK 97 HR 18 HU 24 IE 13 IL 13 IN 21 IR 27 IS 17 IT 13 JO 42 JP 30 KR XX KW 57 LB 73 LT 19 MA 35 MX 13 MY 18 NL 12 NO 17 NZ 08 OM 19 PE 15 PH 21 PK 10 PL 09 PR 12 PS 55 PT 11 QA 73 RO 12 RU 25 SA XX SE 21 SG 16 SI 18 SK 15 SY 42 TH 86 TR 45 TW XX UA 21 UK 12 US 14 VE 26 VN 67 YE 40 ZA 13 ZH XX
Same list, sorted by the rank itself:
07 DE 08 AT 08 CH 08 NZ 09 PL 10 CO 10 PK 11 PT 12 CA 12 GB 12 NL 12 PR 12 RO 12 UK 13 FR 13 IE 13 IL 13 IT 13 MX 13 ZA 14 ES 14 US 15 AU 15 BE 15 PE 15 SK 16 BG 16 FI 16 SG 17 CZ 17 IS 17 NO 18 HR 18 MY 18 SI 19 AR 19 LT 19 OM 21 CL 21 IN 21 PH 21 SE 21 UA 22 GR 24 HU 25 CR 25 RU 26 VE 27 BR 27 DO 27 IR 28 DK 29 CY 30 JP 32 ES 35 MA 39 AE 40 YE 42 JO 42 SY 45 BH 45 TR 55 PS 57 EG 57 KW 67 VN 73 LB 73 QA 86 TH 97 HK XX KR XX SA XX TW XX ZH
A couple of months ago, Kate gave some similar data about the distribution of web site requests among countries in relation to its population (or something like that, I can't find the URL at the moment). At a first glimpse at the data, I find it plausible. I also feel satisfied to see three countries with a large share of German speaking population at a top of that list (I hope this is not just because the level of infestation with alexa sp^wphonehomeware is particulary high there :)).
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On 14/04/06, Mathias Schindler neubau@presroi.de wrote:
AU 15 NZ 08
#8 in New Zealand but #15 in Australia? I feel suspicious.
Steve
Guettarda wrote:
So what's with Alexa - the English-speaking Caribbean doesn't exist to them?
The way Alexa works is:
1. Install Alexa toolbar for IE 2. Sites you visit are reported back to them.
Obviously very few people in the Caribbean use the Alexa toolbar.