A geographical analysis of our visitors
During my daily blog read, I came across StateStats. That site analyses available Google data to show the correlations between searchers in U.S. states in relation to different cross setction (e.g., gender and income).
So I decided to have a quick look at the geographical analysis of visitors to the www.irishgaelictranslator.com domain. It’s interesting to see where people are coming from. Actually, this is of interest to my new job that I’ll be starting in mid-January. (It’s based in Co. Tipperary, and I’ll blog about it later.)
Here’s our world map of “visits”. A visit is… a visit!… It’s all pages you view on the site in one session. A session ends after a certain time of you not doing anything on the site. The countries visiting this site:
You can maybe see that the scale in the bottom right goes from 1 to 62,206. That big number indicated by dark green is the number of U.S. visitors as this is the site’s main source of traffic. (All stats are for the past 30 days). During this period, there were a total of 124,896 visits from all around the world.
Here’s where people in Ireland are visiting from:
Obviously, Dublin is the big hub of activity. But visits are scattered around the country. To be honest, I’m glad that that many Irish people are visiting the site, given the “Irish Gaelic” label we have.
The other of the top-three countries according to number of visits is the U.K., and here is the map of visitors:
I’d like to have more people from the Scottish Highlands visiting! 
The U.S. is the country where by far the most visitors come from. So it’s interesting (for me at least!) to dig down through the states.
Obviously, the big visitors here are California and Nua Eabhrac. Californians account for 6,744 visits, and New Yorkers account for 5,869 visits.
California locations are as follows… Ola!
And New York is as follows, obviosuly with a high concentration on New York City.
While we’re looking at the maps, I think it’s interesting that the maps probably indicate where all the Irish and decendents of Irish people are located in the U.S.. But maybe there are additional reasons for the spread (and concentration) of visitors?
The third-busiest U.S. state for this site is Pensilvania, a place where I don’t have any conceptual image of, to be honest. Maybe I should read up more on it! Or you can reply here and tell me what I should know!
Sin é! Any additional comments?
xinhead said,
December 20, 2008 @ 5:35 am
You asked about Pennsylvania? the high concentration clusters are Pittsburgh (on the left) and Philadelphia (lower right) which would make sense as these are the largest metros in Pennsylvania. Looks like you’re also getting a lot of traffic in and around Allentown, Scranton, Harrisburg, and Pennsylvania towns near Trenton, NJ…
I don’t live in PA myself, but Pennsylvania is one of the oldest American colonies. Just below Philadelphia is Washington, DC, the nation’s capital, and Delaware… all areas where many battles were fought against the English. I’d venture to guess there are many Irish families settled there in this area. I’d also expect you to get a lot of traffic from Boston, MA, for the same reason…
Anyhoo, hope that of some help.
map link.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pennsylvania&f=s&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-syn-gm&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=pennsylvania%20map
Eoin said,
December 20, 2008 @ 10:14 am
xinhead, thanks for describing if for me, interesting.
Patrick S. Gallagher said,
December 28, 2008 @ 8:04 pm
I don’t know if you have anyone else in S.C. here but you have one now. I am glad to have found this site although in all of my fumbling aroumd I can’t remember how I got here lol. I have found it extremley interesting and look foreward to spending more time here and learning more as I go.
Thanks