[WikiEN-l] Alexa - rankings differenciated among users from different countries

[Nathaniel Sheetz]

You have ES listed twice--is one of them supposed to be EN, perhaps?

Nathaniel


On 4/14/06, Mathias Schindler <neubau at 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 :)).
>
> Mathias
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