I’ve been looking over the Google stats recently, and it’s kind of fun to see where readers are located. I thought I’d share a few of the more curious facts.
First, the obvious:
Out of roughly 70,000 people who viewed the site over the last month, visiting nearly 134,000 times, the large majority (82.5k visits) are in the US. Next comes Canada, at about 12k. Then the UK with over 9 thousand, then Australia at almost 6 thousand. New Zealand and Ireland lag behind a bit for English speaking countries at about a thousand each.
Now it gets a little more interesting. We had almost 1,800 visits from Germany, which is the highest for any non-English speaking country, but not far behind is Finland, with over 1,200 visits. I’m not going to crunch the numbers, but that may give Finland the highest per capita readership of a non-Anglosphere country. Other nordic countries, including Norway, Sweden and Denmark, also have relatively high counts.
Anyway, my theory is that places with fewer readers are usually places where there is little feminism, and no gender war to speak of. Unsurprisingly, this includes most of Central America and SE Asia. Brazil actually has a large number of readers. Not so many for its size, but there’s definitely an indication of feminism there. Mexico is about on par with Brazil for its population size, but Argentina looks to have little activity for its population, and this holds true for most of the rest of S. America, with the exception of Colombia.
For Europe, the most gender peaceful countries include the Balkans, although not all of SE Europe looks good. Romania, for example, shows quite a few hits, but Bulgaria and Hungary show little activity. Russia, despite its large size, shows a paltry 245 hits.
Ukraine looks nice, with only 80 hits, and Belarus is all clear with all of seven hits.
Moving on over to the Middle East/North Africa, we see very little activity in the Maghreb, but more in Egypt, and then a lot in Israel, and surprisingly over 100 from Saudi Arabia. Turkey is second only to Israel for the ME, but considering its size the number isn’t so bad.
In Asia, India, with almost 1,300 visits, has the most activity by far, beating Japan and China by a considerable amount. The Philippines has more than I expected at nearly 500 visits; I have no idea what’s going on there but it’s an ominous sign. Central Asian countries look to be oases of gender peace, with the exception of Afghanistan (although those are probably American soldiers reading the site). Pakistan has far fewer than India, even for its population size, suggesting that feminism is stronger in India than Pakistan.
In sub-Saharan Africa, only S. Africa has significant numbers, with over 500 visits.
So, using the Spearheadometer, I’ll suggest a few countries to visit to take a break from gender wars.
Western Europe generally looks to be trouble, however, there is one spot that really stands out: Portugal. For its size, Portugal has the lowest visitor count of all Western Europe. What this suggests to me is that you can go to Portugal and have a nice time, talk to ladies, and enjoy yourself without being attacked by rabid feminists. I’ve never been to Portugal, but it seems like it could be a great place to visit, what with the beaches, old castles, nice weather and all the rest. Now we can add “minimal feminism” to that list. Second place goes to Italy.
For Eastern Europe, Belarus may just be the place to go. People in Belarus seem to have no interest in feminism whatsoever. This, of course, is a good thing.
SE Europe is generally pretty good; you can go anywhere besides Romania and Croatia (too bad about Croatia — beautiful place) without running into people who care about feminism.
NW Europe, on the other hand, is a disaster pretty much all over. Out of all countries in NW Europe, Denmark may be the best, but I wouldn’t count on it.
I don’t really feel like I can single out any countries in SE Asia or Latin America as standouts, because they all seem to have minimal interest in feminism. Only Colombia, Mexico and Brazil register significant visits. So just go ahead down there and enjoy yourself. For SE Asia, only the Philippines seems to care, but otherwise go where you please.
So, to sum it up, we have visitors from all voer the world, but only countries with significant feminist presence show more than a few hits. Maybe someday we, too, will have the luxury of not caring about feminism any longer. Ah, what a sweet dream.
