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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Europa Review Visitors

On July 4th, I posted an Eclipse Europa Review on my blog. Since then I have had approximately 1000 hits referred to my blog for this review from places like DZone and Planet Eclipse.

I know this as I have a nifty site meter on my blog which tracks data like referring URL and location.

One of the things I have found most interesting is the country distribution of people coming to look at the review.
While I know the data set is small, I find many things interesting from the general indication:

Why is it that China does not show up?
From the information that I have, China is the largest single download "consumer" of Eclipse.

Is it a language issue?
Is this something we could look into falling under the scope of the Eclipse translation project, Babel?
Same for Korea.
Or is it simply a limitation of the site meter?

I would have expected more hits from India based on the download distribution.

The large distribution of countries that are using Eclipse: who knew about Algeria and Malta?

All in all it truly is amazing at the global spread of Eclipse!

2 comments:

Venu said...

India a paltry 3%, I for one know that its picking nicely over here in India.

One reason could be that people are stuck and happy with older version

Upgrading to new version is a pain if you know about the download speeds over here :)

Gunnar said...

China does not show up because blogspot.com is not accessible from their. At least, that's what we found out when working with my Google SoC student located in China.