Celebrating Zoochat's diversity

The following table and chart shows visitors to ZooChat for the month of April based on location. This includes all users - not just members.

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We've actually seen significant growth in the number of users visiting the site each month over the past year.

If you plot all visits on a map, there's very few countries that have not had at least one visitor to the site:

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... of course, this is rather meaningless in the scheme of things - it only takes one visit from a country to make it appear on the map, it's not as if they have to have signed up to the site or posted or anything.
 

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The following table and chart shows visitors to ZooChat for the month of April based on location. This includes all users - not just members.

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We've actually seen significant growth in the number of users visiting the site each month over the past year.

If you plot all visits on a map, there's very few countries that have not had at least one visitor to the site:

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... of course, this is rather meaningless in the scheme of things - it only takes one visit from a country to make it appear on the map, it's not as if they have to have signed up to the site or posted or anything.

Interesting how the visitors is slightly different to the number of members from these places, even though one would have thought that it would correlate quite closely to members.

Has the growth also been a spreading out among countries or still focused in the same countries? Did we have that coverage before or has this been a recent phenomenon?
 
I am pretty sure Ituri is in Idaho (unless he has recently moved).

His profile says 'Phoenix' if I remember correctly. I don't think there is a Phoenix in Idaho so I'm pretty sure that is referring to Phoenix AZ.

Yep :( He started sending them animals in the 1980s. He also sent some to USSR countries back then.
Conservationists protest as Robert Mugabe sends 'ark' of animals to North Korea

That is unfortunate :(. Any rarities or extremely endangered animals?
 
But his profile says he is in Phoenix...

Having met the man I can assure you he's not in Phoenix, although this is what his profile says.. He did live in Idaho for some years, though, including some on the forum. He then moved to Florida, now Kansas as @Zooplantman said. I believe he is from Phoenix (or at least Arizona) so that might explain it.

~Thylo
 
Interesting how the visitors is slightly different to the number of members from these places, even though one would have thought that it would correlate quite closely to members.

Given that 74.8% of our visitor traffic comes from search engines (and 96.5% of our search engine traffic comes from Google), the visitors will be largely driven by how ZooChat is represented in search results in specific countries, combined with variations in what people in each country are actually searching for.

It's a completely different mechanism to what drives members to join and post.

Also, English language sites like ZooChat are always going to skew towards specific countries - particularly those where English is the first language.
 
Hey the USA beat the UK for once (number of active users)! As for the great Ituri debate, yes he is from Phoenix, Arizona and then moved to Idaho (Boise I believe) and that is where I last tracked him but apparently he has moved on from there.
 
Hey the USA beat the UK for once (number of active users)! As for the great Ituri debate, yes he is from Phoenix, Arizona and then moved to Idaho (Boise I believe) and that is where I last tracked him but apparently he has moved on from there.

Okay, I'll put this all to rest. :D

I have lived in Phoenix as well as Boise (and a couple other places), but I currently reside in Kansas.
 
The following table and chart shows visitors to ZooChat for the month of April based on location. This includes all users - not just members.

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We've actually seen significant growth in the number of users visiting the site each month over the past year.

If you plot all visits on a map, there's very few countries that have not had at least one visitor to the site:

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... of course, this is rather meaningless in the scheme of things - it only takes one visit from a country to make it appear on the map, it's not as if they have to have signed up to the site or posted or anything.

North Korea is blue. I guess Kim is also a zoo-lover then.
 
And here is the USA map.

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Pretty good coverage overall, with the only states missing being Idaho, Mississippi, North and South Dakota, West Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Only Idaho was really surprising out of these. The harder ones to find were residents of Hawai'i, South Carolina, Oregon and Rhode Island.

Any requests?
And here is the USA map.

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Pretty good coverage overall, with the only states missing being Idaho, Mississippi, North and South Dakota, West Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Only Idaho was really surprising out of these. The harder ones to find were residents of Hawai'i, South Carolina, Oregon and Rhode Island.

Any requests?
Ah shoot, you found a wild Rhode Islander
 
Updated map - notable additions include Panama (missed off the last one), Cote D'Ivoire, Montenegro and Vietnam :)

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Impressive nonetheless - hopefully over the next few years (decades?) as South American and African zoos in particular develop in size and quality, we may well have a few more countries to add :).

Please tell me if I have missed any, input very welcome.
 

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Updated map - notable additions include Panama (missed off the last one), Cote D'Ivoire, Montenegro and Vietnam :)

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Impressive nonetheless - hopefully over the next few years (decades?) as South American and African zoos in particular develop in size and quality, we may well have a few more countries to add :).

Please tell me if I have missed any, input very welcome.
Chile seems to have been missed, although admittedly the only member I know of from there is quite new.
 
Would it be possible to make a map of what areas of the UK members are from? Something similar to the US states one
 
Would it be possible to make a map of what areas of the UK members are from? Something similar to the US states one

I will try, but there might be the added complication that people are less likely to put their exact location in their profile as opposed to just 'UK'.
 
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