I only started analysing web traffic on the Ogre site by country properly since the server move yesterday, using the free version of Maxmind’s IP-to-country lookup GeoLite. Whilst not quite as accurate or as detailed (ie you don’t get City locations) as their commercial offerings, it claims 98% reliability for countries which is good enough for me. I’ve used simple IP range lookups before (e.g. to automatically redirect book links to Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) but Maxminds integrates easily with awstats and the results seem very good.
It’s been a little less than 24 hours but the results are already quite interesting (for info this is based on a sample of about 500,000 hits with the results fed through OpenOffice Calc):
Unsurprisingly the US comes out on top as the most prevalent individual country (cue chants of You-Ess-Ay, You-Ess-Ay etc). Germany is close behind, which didn’t surprise me either having seen quite a lot of German companies using Ogre. That the UK came 3rd was actually a surprise to me – I don’t personally know of that many people in the UK using Ogre (something that’s always been a disappointment); the majority of my commercial contacts come from the US or mainland Europe and british people do seem to be in a minority in the community at large, but clearly there’s quite a lot of people from the UK accessing the site -maybe they’re just laying low 
. The range is also quite impressive – that sizeable ‘Other’ chunk includes places like Kazakhstan, Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua, Lebanon and tons of others.
Despite the USA winning the solo race, when you analyse things by world region the picture is quite clearly biased towards western europe, with almost 50% of the traffic coming from there. The potential good news for European users is that the server is now closer to them than it was before, having moved from Texas, USA to Reading, UK – although in practice both servers are on networks with good cross-continent links so there probably won’t be much appreciable difference.
Oh, and congrats to Brazil for being seemingly our largest user base outside Europe & North America, just sneaking into the top 10! Funnily enough our very first featured project was a Brazilian one quite a few years back, if you remember…
These are just early results anyway although likely to be broadly indicative. I’ll have to run the analysis again in a month to see the averages.
March 14th, 2007 at 11:22 am
The uk stats are just from me hitting refresh on the forums every 30 seconds.
March 14th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
I am from Switzerland and surprised that we accomplished it to not get into the “Other” chunk.
March 14th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Hmm intresting but theres one thing I dont get.
Sinbad:
“Oh, and congrats to Brazil for being seemingly our largest user base outside Europe & North America”
From the pie chart it looks like South Korea generates more traffic than for example Brazil or Sweden and still ends up after those countries in the list!?
Is it a trick of the eye or something else?
… Maybe I just need glasses.
March 14th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
No Japan? That’s surprising in so far, as the top of the country breakdown is also ( more or less
) the top of the list of countries ordered by economic power. With the notable absence of Japan.
March 14th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
@Borundin: Ah yes – I just realised that the spreadsheet was sorted on “Page Views” but the pie data was based on “Hits”. For some reason South Korea and Brazil switch places depending on which you use – I’ve fixed it.
@haffax: Japan came in at number 34, just below Hong Kong and Singapore, and one above Ireland
We’ll have to see how things change over a lareger sample though.
March 14th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Nice to see the Netherlands on position 6 considering its such a small country
March 15th, 2007 at 7:24 am
Thanks for taking the time to share these stats with us, Steve.
Its the little things like this that will keep Ogre an open, community-oriented project!
March 15th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Well, even a day on (analysis runs at 4am GMT every day) things have shuffled about a bit outside the top 6, with South Korea in particular storming up the rankings to 7th place, beating Sweden, Spain and Italy (who are themselves competing strongly) and pushing Brazil out of the top 10. Japan has also gained 10 places although it’s still outside the top 20. I should probably put on a Murray Walker impression now
Oh, and please don’t hammer the server deliberately from your country to try to improve its rating
You wouldn’t be able to anyway with these numbers (just over a million hits now in about 40 hours).
March 15th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
For the fun of it, maybe you can list all of the countries’ ranking.
March 15th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Ok…
# Country %
1 United States 19.477%
2 Germany 10.584%
3 Great Britain 8.540%
4 France 7.912%
5 Canada 4.253%
6 Netherlands 3.545%
7 South Korea 3.187%
8 Sweden 2.950%
9 Spain 2.908%
10 Italy 2.785%
11 Australia 2.641%
12 China 2.589%
13 Russian Federation 2.486%
14 Brazil 2.369%
15 Poland 2.090%
16 Austria 1.605%
17 Finland 1.441%
18 Denmark 1.376%
19 Belgium 0.966%
20 Hungary 0.827%
21 Ukraine 0.796%
22 Switzerland 0.775%
23 Japan 0.746%
24 Argentina 0.732%
25 Taiwan 0.716%
26 Czech Republic 0.709%
27 Romania 0.604%
28 Malaysia 0.575%
29 Turkey 0.569%
30 Norway 0.564%
31 Singapore 0.522%
32 Greece 0.477%
33 Portugal 0.472%
34 Hong Kong 0.453%
35 Colombia 0.449%
36 Mexico 0.431%
37 Slovak Republic 0.375%
38 India 0.373%
39 Ireland 0.305%
40 New Zealand 0.285%
41 Israel 0.251%
42 Thailand 0.237%
43 Peru 0.230%
44 South Africa 0.229%
45 Estonia 0.228%
46 Lithuania 0.214%
47 Unknown 0.195%
48 Iran 0.188%
49 Qatar 0.175%
50 Chile 0.164%
51 Philippines 0.151%
52 Slovenia 0.132%
53 Venezuela 0.123%
54 Ecuador 0.116%
55 Vietnam 0.113%
56 Egypt 0.108%
57 Belarus 0.108%
58 Croatia 0.107%
59 Indonesia 0.105%
60 Morocco 0.103%
61 Bosnia-Herzegovina 0.098%
62 Kazakhstan 0.088%
63 Iceland 0.088%
64 Latvia 0.085%
65 Bulgaria 0.075%
66 Unknown 0.073%
67 Cuba 0.064%
68 Bahamas 0.051%
69 Luxembourg 0.049%
70 Saudi Arabia 0.048%
71 Puerto Rico 0.044%
72 Moldova 0.044%
73 Armenia 0.043%
74 Bolivia 0.040%
75 Namibia 0.038%
76 Algeria 0.035%
77 Satellite access host 0.033%
78 Syria 0.033%
79 Pakistan 0.022%
80 Tunisia 0.021%
81 European country 0.020%
82 Guatemala 0.019%
83 Lebanon 0.019%
84 Kenya 0.012%
85 Nepal 0.012%
86 Macau 0.011%
87 Costa Rica 0.011%
88 Dominican Republic 0.009%
89 Kyrgyzstan 0.007%
90 Uzbekistan 0.007%
91 Jordan 0.006%
92 Honduras 0.006%
93 Cyprus 0.005%
94 Nicaragua 0.005%
95 Panama 0.005%
96 United Arab Emirates 0.004%
97 Albania 0.003%
98 Aruba 0.003%
99 Uruguay 0.003%
100 Maldives 0.002%
101 Faroe Islands 0.002%
102 Zimbabwe 0.002%
103 San Marino 0.002%
104 Mongolia 0.002%
105 Palestinian Territories 0.001%
106 Malta 0.001%
107 Bahrain 0.001%
108 Nigeria 0.001%
109 Cameroon 0.001%
110 Ivory Coast (Cote D’Ivoire) 0.001%
111 Jamaica 0.001%
112 El Salvador 0.001%
113 Guyana 0.001%
114 Netherlands Antilles 0.001%
115 Macedonia 0.001%
116 Senegal 0.001%
117 Ghana 0.001%
118 Sri Lanka 0.001%
119 Polynesia (French) 0.001%
120 Trinidad and Tobago 0.001%
March 15th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Thank you.. My country is at no 28 – maybe quite a big portion of it coming from me
January 30th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
no i dont remeber
what was the featred brazillian project?
very nice to hear it
too bad we didnt keep the good job 
April 8th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
[...] Almost exactly three years ago, I posted an analysis of the traffic on ogre3d.org and the rough country breakdown of our users, which is always fascinating to me. I hadn’t actually been collecting web stats on the site for about a year (the previous set-up was lost when I had to recreate the server in a hurry, and somehow reinstating it never seemed to rise to the top of my TODO list), but a month ago I finally got around to adding Google Analytics to the site. The results have been very interesting, particularly when compared to 3 years ago, so I thought I’d share some factoids with you. [...]