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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Counting Up to 180, Part II

Yesterday I presented some data about the visitors to this blog about elementary math. Today I am going to give a different view of the countries visiting us.

The previous view used 3 screen captures from my iMac, which were converted from TIFF to JPG format, posted on Picasa, and linked to the blog.

Today I decided to grab some HTML source data from my user report from Flag Counter ...

<tr><td width="20"><span style="font-family: arial;">7.</span></td> <td width="11"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></td><td width="18"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.blog.com/factbook/de/qQq"><img border="0" height="11" src="http://images.nnnhost.com/flags/de.png" width="16" /></a></b></span></td><td><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.blog.com/factbook/de/qQq" style="text-decoration: none;"><u>Germany</u></a></span></td><td width="1%"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">581</span></td><td width="16"><br /></td><td><tr id="hidden_de" style="display: none;"> <td colspan="8"><table border="0" cellspacing="4" style="width: 435px;"><blah><blah><blah>

  ... and build my own tables in HTML which would present the same data.

It was a bit of work, but I was able to remove the things I didn't like, such as the states, districts and lesser jurisdictions. This approach also allowed me to get 100 countries into a lot less space than 10 countries took yesterday.

How much less space? Let's use some elementary math, shall we?

This file contains 356 kb of HTML  and 0 kb of graphics (they are hosted elsewhere) = 356
Yesterday required 41 kb of HTML and 1151 kb of graphics (hosted by Google) = 1192

How much is that per country?
   Today  356 kb ÷ 100 = 3.6 kb per country and yesterday 1192 kb ÷ 10 = 119 kb per country

That's 33 times as much space, per country, in yesterday's blog.  You may think the world has an inexhaustible supply of data space, and that's very nearly true. But conserving data space is still a virtue in my book. If I knew more about HTML coding I could have saved a great deal more space, but it would have taken more software tools than I have on my old "blog-making" computer.

Anyway - here you go - is your country in this list? Are you one of my visitors?
(yes, of course, or you wouldn't be reading this)



Country   Unique Visitors Last New Visitor
1. United States24,393

November 30, 2011
2.
United Kingdom4,667

November 30, 2011
4.
India2,058

November 30, 2011
5.
Australia1,601

November 30, 2011
6.
Philippines1,058

November 30, 2011
7.
Germany581

November 30, 2011
8.
France416

November 30, 2011
9.
Malaysia393

November 30, 2011
10.
Netherlands380

November 30, 2011
11.
Italy347

November 29, 2011
12.
Indonesia336

November 30, 2011
13.
Brazil335

November 30, 2011
14.
Thailand289

November 29, 2011
15.
Spain288

November 30, 2011
16.
Turkey271

November 29, 2011
17.
New Zealand268

November 29, 2011
18.
South Africa266

November 28, 2011
19.
Pakistan260

November 30, 2011
20.
Poland255

November 29, 2011
21.
Ireland250

November 30, 2011
22.
Singapore241

November 30, 2011
23.
Mexico235

November 29, 2011
24.
Greece228

November 27, 2011
25.
United Arab Emirates224

November 30, 2011
26.
Sweden212

November 30, 2011
27.
South Korea210

November 30, 2011
28.
Taiwan210

November 30, 2011
29.
Hong Kong196

November 30, 2011
30.
Belgium193

November 28, 2011
31.
Russia184

November 29, 2011
32.
Israel154

November 30, 2011
33.
Romania153

November 29, 2011
34.
Japan152

November 29, 2011
35.
Jamaica151

November 30, 2011
36.
Portugal147

November 29, 2011
37.
Egypt145

November 29, 2011
38.
Saudi Arabia140

November 30, 2011
39.
Norway128

November 28, 2011
40.
Hungary127

November 28, 2011
41.
Finland122

November 28, 2011
42.
Switzerland117

November 28, 2011
43.
Vietnam115

November 30, 2011
44.
Bulgaria114

November 30, 2011
45.
Denmark114

November 30, 2011
46.
Czech Republic103

November 29, 2011
47.
Croatia100

November 27, 2011
48.
Serbia  97

November 30, 2011
49.
Ukraine  93

November 26, 2011
50.
Sri Lanka  82

November 30, 2011
51.
Lithuania79        

November 29, 2011
52.
Austria76

November 24, 2011
53.
Colombia69

November 24, 2011
54.
Slovakia68

November 28, 2011
55.
Argentina62

November 25, 2011
56.
Trinidad and Tobago59

November 26, 2011
57.
Qatar58

November 28, 2011
58.
Latvia56

November 25, 2011
59.
Chile55

November 23, 2011
60.
Nigeria54

November 22, 2011
61.
Puerto Rico54

November 19, 2011
62.
Bangladesh51

November 30, 2011
63.
Slovenia51

November 22, 2011
64.
Malta48

November 24, 2011
65.
Estonia48

November 22, 2011
66.
Peru47

November 29, 2011
67.
Bahamas43

November 24, 2011
68.
Jordan37

November 28, 2011
69.
Kuwait35

November 20, 2011
70.
Iran35

November 10, 2011
71.
Morocco33

November 24, 2011
72.
Iceland33

November 2, 2011
73.
Lebanon32

November 21, 2011
74.
Macedonia31

November 12, 2011
75.
Ghana29

November 19, 2011
76.
Mongolia28

November 23, 2011
77.
Kenya27

November 20, 2011
78.
Costa Rica25

November 29, 2011
79.
Algeria25

October 9, 2011
80.
Venezuela24

November 24, 2011
81.
Cyprus23

November 9, 2011
82.
Brunei23

October 24, 2011
83.
Bahrain21

November 28, 2011
84.
Panama21

September 2, 2011
85.
Albania20

November 23, 2011
86.
Barbados18

November 17, 2011
87.
Moldova18

November 14, 2011
88.
Bosnia   and   Herzegovina17

November 26, 2011
89.
Iraq17

November 16, 2011
90.
Guyana17

November 14, 2011
91.
Tunisia17

November 6, 2011
92.
Ecuador17

October 12, 2011
93.
Honduras16

November 9, 2011
94.
Cambodia15

November 27, 2011
95.
Mauritius15

November 24, 2011
96.
Georgia15

November 14, 2011
97.
Oman15

October 27, 2011
98.
Dominican Republic15

August 30, 2011
99.
Uganda14

November 23, 2011
100
Maldives13

November 20, 2011

Tomorrow we will cover the remaining 80 smaller countries.