Thursday, March 22, 2007
Which Language Do You Read?
This snapshot was taken from the Himalia's website visitor stats from Europe.
The top-five list is the following:
- France
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- Netherlands
- Belgium
This is a little strange, if you see the Internet Usage in Europe stats:
- Germany 50,471,212
- United Kingdom 37,600,000
- France 30,837,595
- Italy 30,763,940
- Russia 23,700,000
- Spain 19,765,032
- Turkey 16,000,000
- Netherlands 12,060,000
- Poland 11,400,000
- Portugal 7,782,760
- Sweden 6,890,000
- Ukraine 5,278,100
- Belgium 5,100,000
50. Vatican City State 93
So, first conclusion, the Pope is using Internet and as a consequence, the Vatican firewall configuration will be a controversial issue some day ;)
And second, you need to spread the word in different languages if you are planning a global strategy. I think this post helped giving french readers to the website and turning France as the second country in the world-wide Himalia's website visitor list, after USA.
There are post about Himalia written in French, Spanish, English, and now, there's a post written in Lithuanian, but I don't understand anything about them ;)
The point is that there are a lot of people out there that never will know about Himalia just because the read in other languages, and so, we will need help with it :-)
