It’s always interesting to know where the Delphi developers are and if there are areas with high concentrations compared to some “desertic” ones.
I don’t have access to Embarcadero’s propretary market information, but I have something which also interests me more directly: information about my blog’s readership.Not so much thanks to the WordPress plug-in displaying a little flag showing the (more or less accurate) country based on the IP address used to leave a comment. Too small and unrepresentative of a sample.
No, for broader readership statistics, I installed the Visitor Locations widgets from ClustrMaps. I had spotted it on Chris Bensen’s blog a long time ago and liked it. It aggregates within a given distance the number of individual visits to a web site and displays that as red dots of different sizes on a map. Of course, it is only as accurate as the IP address can provide a specific location…
From the map displayed above, it seems that I have way more readers in Europe than in the US. This can very easily be verified as ClustrMaps provide the totals by Country.
- Germany (DE) 587
- United States (US) 579
- United Kingdom (GB) 191
- Netherlands (NL) 163
- France (FR) 154
- Canada (CA) 149
- Australia (AU) 134
- Brazil (BR) 123
- Italy (IT) 116
- Sweden (SE) 103
- Russian Federation (RU) 92
- Spain (ES) 83
- Poland (PL) 65
- Norway (NO) 61
- Slovenia (SI) 59
- Belgium (BE) 57
- Austria (AT) 47
- Denmark (DK) 46
- Ukraine (UA) 42
- New Zealand (NZ) 42
- Finland (FI) 35
- South Africa (ZA) 35
- Bulgaria (BG) 34
- Singapore (SG) 34
- Switzerland (CH) 31
- China (CN) 31
- Czech Republic (CZ) 30
- Greece (GR) 30
Current Country Totals From 21 Sep 2010 to 4 Nov 2010
Germany alone is even ahead of the US. And the total for all the E.U. countries is more than for the rest of the world; the following table showing the number per country with a running total (21 Sep 2010 to 4 Nov 2010).
E.U. | # | ∑ | outside E.U. | # | ∑ |
Germany (DE) | 587 | 587 | |||
587 | United States (US) | 579 | 579 | ||
United Kingdom (GB) | 191 | 778 | 579 | ||
Netherlands (NL) | 163 | 941 | 579 | ||
France (FR) | 154 | 1,095 | 579 | ||
1,095 | Canada (CA) | 149 | 728 | ||
1,095 | Australia (AU) | 134 | 862 | ||
1,095 | Brazil (BR) | 123 | 985 | ||
Italy (IT) | 116 | 1,211 | 985 | ||
Sweden (SE) | 103 | 1,314 | 985 | ||
1,314 | Russian Federation(RU) | 92 | 1,077 | ||
Spain (ES) | 83 | 1,397 | 1,077 | ||
Poland (PL) | 65 | 1,462 | 1,077 | ||
1,462 | Norway (NO) | 61 | 1,138 | ||
Slovenia (SI) | 59 | 1,521 | 1,138 | ||
Belgium (BE) | 57 | 1,578 | 1,138 | ||
Austria (AT) | 47 | 1,625 | 1,138 | ||
Denmark (DK) | 46 | 1,671 | 1,138 | ||
1,671 | Ukraine (UA) | 42 | 1,180 | ||
1,671 | New Zealand (NZ) | 42 | 1,222 | ||
Finland (FI) | 35 | 1,706 | 1,222 | ||
1,706 | South Africa (ZA) | 35 | 1,257 | ||
Bulgaria (BG) | 34 | 1,740 | 1,257 | ||
1,740 | Singapore (SG) | 34 | 1,291 | ||
1,740 | Switzerland (CH) | 31 | 1,322 | ||
1,740 | China (CN) | 31 | 1,353 | ||
Czech Republic (CZ) | 30 | 1,770 | 1,353 | ||
Greece (GR) | 30 | 1,800 | 1,353 |
One might object that my blog being fairly new, those numbers are not yet significant. Fair enough. Looking at other blogs with recent posts and also using ClustrMaps indeed validates this prominence of European readers, even if slightly less so in the case of Chris Bensens’s blog where the sum of 2 E.U. countries does not quite reach the U.S. number.
Daniele Teti’s blog totals (30 Apr 2010 to 22 Oct 2010):
E.U. | # | ∑ | outside E.U. | # | ∑ |
United States (US) | 1,102 | 1,102 | |||
Germany (DE) | 1,001 | 1,001 | 1,102 | ||
Italy (IT) | 932 | 1,933 | 1,102 |
Chris Bensen’s blog totals (8 Aug 2010 to 4 Nov 2010):
E.U. | # | ∑ | outside E.U. | # | ∑ |
United States (US) | 1,873 | 1,873 | |||
Germany (DE) | 1,158 | 1,158 | 1,873 | ||
United Kingdom (GB) | 602 | 1,760 | 1,873 |
Hello, on my blog I use http://www.hitslink.com for tracking…
I see 2 main advantages with ClustrMaps:
– it’s free, as in beer…
– it allows the readers to see the map and the numbers if they’re interested. That’s what I did as a reader on Chris Bensens’ blog back in the day.
Interesting. It would also be nice to see the results displayed on a per capita basis as well.
Hmm. Do you mean like dividing those numbers by the global population as per the last census for each country? (I don’t believe I could get other numbers)
It would be great to have somehow the number of overall developers by country…
Exactly.
Having the overall number of developers by country would be even more precise but I believe using general population data would give a fairly close estimate. Results displayed this way show popularity rather than quantity. Hard to display on a cluster map though.
Germany is almost every year world export champion. Besides USA and China. We simply use best tools for the job. 😉
yes you guys do, dankeschön!! 😉
Thanks to Germany, Russia and Brazil we get a lot of views on Delphi related blogs.
Does that include those who read your blog via DelphiFeeds?
I’m pretty sure it includes the DelphiFeeds readers. I wouldn’t have that many otherwise 😉
Very interesting post! Thanks!
And yes, it sure includes the DelphiFeed readers. I’m one of them! 🙂
Best regards
That’s interesting …
I bet I am the little dot near to Africa’s coast
🙂
Regards from Canary Islands
My ClustrMaps stats are slightly different (August 2010 to Octoboer 2010):
Germany is still up there with 703 but the US pips them to the #1 slot with 904.
Also worth noting is that New Zealand ranks 10th in my stats (171), far, far higher than in yours. This perhaps reflects the fact that my blog is itself located in NZ (unsurprising since that is where I live 🙂 ).
Although the interweb is a global phenomenon, there may still be local effects.
Right, I forgot you had ClustrMaps also… (that’s what you get for not posting since August :-P).
I would have pulled your numbers as well.
You’re in between Daniele and Chris: US is #1 but Germany+UK(1090) > US(904).
And there certainly are some local influences. Another influence might be native language or not (or ease with English).
Ok, added a column with the population size, taken from here:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2119.html
It’s a small sample size, but with this dataset, Delphi seems to be very popular in Slovenia. 29 out of every million inhabitants has visited.
Only 2 out of every 100 million Chinese managed to surpass the great firewall.
Country Visitors Population Per million
Slovenia (SI) 59 2003136 29,45
Norway (NO) 61 4676305 13,04
Sweden (SE) 103 9074055 11,35
New Zealand (NZ) 42 4252277 9,88
Netherlands (NL) 163 16783092 9,71
Denmark (DK) 46 5515575 8,34
Singapore (SG) 34 4701069 7,23
Germany (DE) 587 82282988 7,13
Finland (FI) 35 5255068 6,66
Australia (AU) 134 21515754 6,23
Austria (AT) 47 8214160 5,72
Belgium (BE) 57 10423493 5,47
Bulgaria (BG) 34 7148785 4,76
Canada (CA) 149 33759742 4,41
Switzerland (CH) 31 7623438 4,07
United Kingdom (GB) 191 62348447 3,06
Czech Republic (CZ) 30 10201707 2,94
Greece (GR) 30 10749943 2,79
France (FR) 154 64768389 2,38
Italy (IT) 116 58090681 2,00
United States (US) 579 310232863 1,87
Spain (ES) 83 46505963 1,78
Poland (PL) 65 38463689 1,69
Ukraine (UA) 42 45415596 0,92
South Africa (ZA) 35 49109107 0,71
Russian Federation (RU) 92 92 139390205 0,66
Brazil (BR) 123 201103330 0,61
China (CN) 31 1330141295 0,02
Argh! My eyes!
Sorry about the layout. I can’t edit it anymore.
Now that’s a better looking ranking. Us Canadians are always very competitive with our Southern neighbors!
just shooting from the hip, Brasil is somehow underrated. I wrote a couple Delphi / Interbase tutorials, a couple of years ago, and they were nearly at the pole position even for the downloads from my French site (I log every download IP and analyze the geolocation of those since 2001). Granted, this is the analysis of my site only, but looking at their conferences, sites, I still think they are an inch higher in the ranking…
Doesn’t surprise me! The interested in Delphi in the U.S. has slowly declined because of the fact that Embarcadero charges (maintenance fees and upgrade prices) way too much for their products! We as a company had been using Delphi since its inception in 1995. Last year, we began the slow transition of everything to JAVA. We started a whole Java team, and are now down to 2 delphi programmers who maintain the legacy products. These products were last updated with Delphi 7. Although we have upgraded our delphi plicenses since then …..al the way to Delphi 2010…….we have no plans of ever doing another upgrade. We have said goodbye to Delphi.
I remember the day when everything was Delphi, here in the U.S.
I remember when there were books galore, magazines, and web pages related to delphi component repositories. I remember when there were pages related solely to Delphi jobs!
Its all gone now…..and soon, embarcadero will be gone, unless they get their act together.
Shane