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Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by pitdesi »

Another data point... This is a snapshot of our (http://feefighters.com) google analytics visitors page for this year (~70k visits), filtered for news.ycombinator.com: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/Screenshots/bc.png

US: 65%, CA: 7.4%, UK: 6.1%, Germany: 2.2%, Australia: 2.1%, India: 1.7%, Netherlands: 1%, France: 1%

Drilling down within the US: New York: 8.8%, SF: 8.6%, Chicago: 4.6%, Seattle: 2.5%, Austin, LA, Mt View: 2%, Boston: 1.5%, Palo Alto: 1.4%, Portland: 1.3%, Cambridge: 1.3%

Drilling down in the bay: SF 48% Mt View 11% PA 8% Sunnyvale 6% San Jose 5% Berkeley 4% Oakland 4% San Mateo 3% Santa Monica 3% Santa Clara 3% Stanford 2% Cupertino 2% Redwood City 2% Emeryville 1% Fremont 1% Menlo Park 1%

Which reminds me - a good way I like to check what the tech-iness of a city is to look at these stats, search for it in quora/reddit/hnsearch and take a look at the number of hits.

Caveats: Our site is currently tailored towards the US and Canadian markets and generally gets posted to HN during US waking hours.

If you want this report for your site: Create a custom report in GA that looks like this http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3446069/Screenshots/bd.png And drill into news.ycombinator.com

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by freehunter »

kunley wrote: post #176
itmag wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Although many Europeans are at work and may not be on HN" Uhm, that's exactly why I'm on HN.

OT, but frankly such attitude is recurring and I can't imagine how it is compatible with HN "ethos". If you're at work, be effective there or change the work. What's to be so proud in slacking during work hours? Would you want such people working in your startup?

No one can work 100% all day every day. You get 4-5 hours of good, solid productivity before you burn out. Take a break every now and then, you'll live longer.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by mawueli »

frankiewarren wrote: post #251

Kampala, Uganda. I'll admit I'm surprised by the geographic diversity. Maybe some traffic analytics would be interesting to compare.

Accra, Ghana-West Africa. I've always wondered where the hackers of the world were hidden. Theres a lot of them right here in Africa at www.meltwater.org

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by edanm »

quizbiz wrote: post #169
eliben wrote: post #153

Israel, which makes it (Rest of) Asia/Pacific

Would you mind updating your entry with how many upvotes you have? I would take it to represent roughly how many others are from Israel as well.

Not necessarily. I'm not sure most people will see the post, it's too far down.

E.g., idan's post "Israel!" lower down the page (at the moment).

P.S. I'm Israeli too.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by kahawe »

plq wrote: post #217

Okay, where would you put Turkey here? Europe or Asia? We're not totally Middle-Eastern, nor totally European. In fact, if you believe there's a cultural cliff between the Middle East and Europe, Turkey is that cliff, which makes it a cradle of contradictions and thousand-year-old battles. Lacking the option to vote twice, I'd imagine the HN crowd from Turkey would consider themselves closer to Europe. The time zone…

Not Europe, if you ask a lot of Europeans :P

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by tcarnell »

Do people post this stuff just to earn karma points? What use would this half-thought through data set provide? and who would use it?

Can we NOT repeat the same polls again?

I suggest creating a Hacker News 'polls' section which lists a permanent list of polls ideally with a public data API and bonus points for a pub/sub mechanism to help 3rd party application developers build something that might actually be useful...

I'll even build it for you, but only if there is a purpose to it all.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by domador »

chalst wrote: post #191
huherto wrote: post #67

Mexico

Which is, along with the Carribean and much of Central America, not a possible response option to this quiz.

I'm from Costa Rica, in Central America, not an option in this poll. I'd recommend adding Central America, or including it along with South America.
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