The GfGD blog moved to its current home, hosted on the EGU blog network, in September. Since this move our readership has been recorded in detail by ‘google analytics’, telling us the nationality of visitors, the website that referred them (mainly twitter and facebook) and the length of time they spent on the site (averaging one and a half minutes – looks like people are staying long enough to read through the whole article!).
Most of our readers are UK based, but we have had people from almost every country in the world visiting the blog at some point, with a few notable exceptions – noone has seen our site in North Korea. After the UK, we are getting the most hits from the USA, western mainland Europe, Canada, Australia and India. This is not surprising as these are all very populous areas with high levels of internet access. We seem to have some core readership in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Iran, South Korea and South Africa. We’ve also had the odd hit from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Timor-Leste, Bhutan, Syria, Mongolia…
Map of the world showing where our readers are based. Darker shades of blue indicate higher number of visitors from that country. Grey indicates no visitors recorded from that country.
Hello to all of our readers. We welcome contributions and participation from all communities. You are always welcome to leave comments on blog posts or contact us through twitter or facebook. You could even submit a guest blog to us on an issue that interests you. With the GfGD readership around the world, we must have an incredible wealth of local and specialised information – why not share it with us?
Sara Mynott
Nice work! There’s barely a spot on that map that’s not blue. It’s great to see the blog reaching such a wide audience, especially when it tackles issues that relate to people around the world.
LauRob85
Congratulations GfGD! Impressive that you’ve reached pretty much every corner of the world! The work you do is cool and it is awesome to see that everyone else thinks so too!
Ekbal Hussain
This is a fantastic figure! It really does show that GfGD has a global presence. Keep up the great work guys!