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Most Procoholic countries, 24 January 2009 – 24 January 2011

On 24 January 2009 we affixed a counter to the 'What's New' page at 'Beyond the Pale' to collect the nationalities of visitors to that page; it has been active now for exactly two years. The supposition was that people visiting 'What's New' were habitual fans actively looking for the latest Procol updates, which we have been publishing daily since October 1997. If the counter had been on the 'home' page it might have picked up merely 'casual trade', sent thither by search engines and so forth.

In the table below you will find the 97 countries concerned, their populations, and the number of different computers used for visiting the 'What's New' page in a single year (there were 98,136 different machines ... but far more page-visits, of course: if you read BtP once a day for a year from your home computer, that registers as just '1' on our counter).

In the following table the countries are ranked according to the proportion of the population who seem to be Procoholics: this is why Ireland (with 780 machine-visitors) comes in above the USA (with almost 45,000 machine-visitors): and why Denmark, that most Harum-oriented of nations, comes in at No 1.

Population	Country	Ranking	BtP visitors
5,484,723	Denmark	1	16257
91,533	Jersey	2	131
4,644,457	Norway	3	6430
60,943,912	UK	4	41930
9,045,389	Sweden	5	5511
7,581,520	Switzerland	6	3437
5,244,749	Finland	7	1744
16,645,313	Netherlands	8	4230
3,311,640	Oman	9	632
4,156,119	Ireland	10	780
303,824,640	America	11	44699
82,369,552	Germany	12	11799
8,205,533	Austria	13	1106
58,145,320	Italy	14	7757
33,212,696	Canada	15	3484
792,604	Cyprus	16	76
12,271	Cook Islands	17	1
21,007,310	Australia	18	1551
10,403,951	Belgium	19	744
62,150,775	France	20	3137
40,491,052	Spain	21	1961
48,856	Faroe Islands	22	2
304,367	Iceland	23	11
1,307,605	Estonia	24	47
29,973	San Marino	25	1
32,965	Monaco	26	1
40,482,000	Argentina	27	1146
718,306	Bahrain	28	19
76,512	Isle of Man	29	2
4,173,460	New Zealand	30	95
26,414,816	Venezuela	31	593
307,451	Bahamas	32	5
7,112,359	Israel	33	108
3,958,128	Puerto Rico	34	60
281,968	Barbados	35	4
38,500,696	Poland	36	465
87,476	Seychelles	37	1
4,798,491	United Arab Emirates	38	48
107,665	Micronesia	39	1
29,180,900	Peru	40	252
10,676,910	Portugal	41	86
127,288,416	Japan	42	1000
3,477,778	Uruguay	43	25
10,220,911	Czech Republic	44	68
800,000	Reunion	45	5
175,877	Guam	46	1
4,491,543	Croatia	47	25
486,006	Luxembourg	48	2
196,342,592	Brazil	49	756
1,128,814	Swaziland	50	4
10,722,816	Greece	51	31
1,842,323	Botswana	52	5
48,782,756	South Africa	53	125
2,007,711	Slovenia	54	5
481,267	Surinam	55	1
16,454,143	Chile	56	30
140,702,096	Russian Federation	57	192
833,285	Qatar	58	1
4,195,914	Costa Rica	59	5
5,455,407	Slovakia	60	5
3,309,679	Panama	61	3
2,245,423	Latvia	62	2
3,565,205	Lithuania	63	3
1,229,953	Trinidad and Tobago	64	1
28,146,656	Saudi Arabia	65	21
9,930,915	Hungary	66	7
2,968,586	Armenia	67	2
4,608,167	Singapore	68	3
7,204,687	Bulgaria	69	4
10,159,046	Serbia	70	5
6,831,306	Paraguay	71	3
45,994,288	Ukraine	72	19
71,892,808	Turkey	73	25
7,055,071	Hong Kong	74	2
3,619,778	Albania	75	1
3,971,941	Lebanon	76	1
25,274,132	Malaysia	77	6
4,320,748	Republic of Moldova	78	1
109,955,400	Mexico	79	25
10,486,339	Tunisia	80	2
13,276,517	Guatemala	81	2
65,493,296	Thailand	82	9
22,246,862	Romania	83	3
15,340,533	Kazakhstan	84	2
20,179,602	Cote D'Ivoire	85	2
237,512,352	Indonesia	86	19
13,927,650	Ecuador	87	1
48,508,972	Republic of Korea	88	3
1,330,044,544	China	89	65
23,382,848	Ghana	90	1
96,061,680	Philippines	91	3
33,769,668	Algeria	92	1
34,343,220	Morocco	93	1
66,429,284	Iran	94	1
86,116,560	Vietnam	95	1
172,800,048	Pakistan	96	1
1,147,995,904	India	97	3

As noted on the original page we published after just one day of this survey, and on the following year's page, the table should perhaps take a language factor into account (clearly denizens of the UK, New Zealand, America, Canada and Australia are likely to feel more at home at BtP – which is published in English, of which they all speak a version – than the average visitor from Poland, Japan, Venezuela etc).

We should also perhaps adjust on economic / infrastructure grounds: for instance America has 239 million internet users, and the UK 51.4 million. So there's quite a lot of work to be done to make such a table 'meaningful'! We hope nonetheless that it is not without a certain interest: it's not intended to prove anything in particular but it may provide food for rumination.

It should be noted that the above figures relate to the 'whatsnew' page only. Overall BtP had 1,043,838 visitors last year, reading 4,341,222 pages (making 11,400,523 'hits', for those familiar with that term). The majority of traffic comes from people searching for Procol Harum information, and thus finding BtP. The information above represents those people who keep coming back to BtP. But there's no reason to believe that their nationalities differ much from the total traffic, though.

Second, here's the list showing countries ranked differently, according to the absolute number of computers visiting BtP in the year:

Ranking	Country	BtP visitors
1	America	44699
2	UK	41930
3	Denmark	16257
4	Germany	11799
5	Italy	7757
6	Norway	6430
7	Sweden	5511
8	Netherlands	4230
9	Canada	3484
10	Switzerland	3437
11	France	3137
12	Spain	1961
13	Finland	1744
14	Australia	1551
15	Argentina	1146
16	Austria	1106
17	Japan	1000
18	Ireland	780
19	Brazil	756
20	Belgium	744
21	Oman	632
22	Venezuela	593
23	Poland	465
24	Peru	252
25	Russian Federation	192
26	Jersey	131
27	South Africa	125
28	Israel	108
29	New Zealand	95
30	Portugal	86
31	Cyprus	76
32	Czech Republic	68
33	China	65
34	Puerto Rico	60
35	United Arab Emirates	48
36	Estonia	47
37	Greece	31
38	Chile	30
39=	Croatia	25
39=	Mexico	25
39=	Turkey	25
39=	Uruguay	25
43	Saudi Arabia	21
44=	Bahrain	19
44=	Indonesia	19
44=	Ukraine	19
47	Iceland	11
48	Thailand	9
49	Hungary	7
50	Malaysia	6
51=	Bahamas	5
51=	Botswana	5
51=	Costa Rica	5
51=	Reunion	5
51=	Serbia	5
51=	Slovakia	5
51=	Slovenia	5
58=	Barbados	4
58=	Bulgaria	4
58=	Swaziland	4
61=	India	3
61=	Lithuania	3
61=	Panama	3
61=	Paraguay	3
61=	Philippines	3
61=	Republic of Korea	3
61=	Romania	3
61=	Singapore	3
69=	Armenia	2
69=	Cote D'Ivoire	2
69=	Faroe Islands	2
69=	Guatemala	2
69=	Hong Kong	2
69=	Isle of Man	2
69=	Kazakhstan	2
69=	Latvia	2
69=	Luxembourg	2
69=	Tunisia	2
79=	Albania	1
79=	Algeria	1
79=	Cook Islands	1
79=	Ecuador	1
79=	Ghana	1
79=	Guam	1
79=	Iran	1
79=	Lebanon	1
79=	Micronesia	1
79=	Monaco	1
79=	Morocco	1
79=	Pakistan	1
79=	Qatar	1
79=	Republic of Moldova	1
79=	San Marino	1
79=	Seychelles	1
79=	Surinam	1
79=	Trinidad and Tobago	1
79=	Vietnam	1

And lastly, for those familiar with America, a table showing the numbers of computers per State that have visited 'Beyond the Pale' in the past two years. Let us know what you think of this distribution.

California	2,672
New York	2,566
Pennsylvania	1,720
New Jersey	1,497
Florida	937
Ohio	863
Illinois	735
Arizona	608
Indiana	526
Rhode Island	419
Michigan	338
Massachusetts	328
Virginia	322
Connecticut	311
Kansas	308
Minnesota	298
Maryland	266
Vermont	263
Oregon	205
Georgia	159
North Carolina	141
New Hampshire	105
District of Columbia	92
Washington	69
Maine	66
Tennessee	63
Wisconsin	63
Texas	55
South Carolina	39
Colorado	21
Mississippi	17
Oklahoma	15
Iowa	13
Utah	13
Delaware	11
Kentucky	10
Missouri	8
Louisiana	7
West Virginia	5
Nebraska	4
Nevada	4
South Dakota	3
Montana	3
North Dakota	3
Hawaii	3
Alabama	2
Arkansas	1
Idaho	1
New Mexico	1

BtP nationality statistics a decade ago | A table like that above but relating to the first single day of the survey | The 2010 table

Procol Harum

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Most Procoholic countries, 24 January 2009 – 24 January 2011

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