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A comment on Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?.

Re:Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics... by ostwilkens on Thursday December 25, 2025 @04:34PM (#46387181)
Two of my blog posts were on the front page earlier this year, netting 56k unique visitors. The visits were spread over multiple days, and should cover different timezones somewhat well. The analytics are located at an endpoint which looks vital, and should bypass most adblockers.

35.1% United States

8.0% Germany

6.5% United Kingdom

5.4% Canada

3.1% Australia

3.0% France

2.7% Netherlands

2.6% India

2.4% Sweden

1.9% Poland

1.7% Switzerland

1.6% Spain

1.4% Japan

1.4% Belgium

1.3% Italy

1.1% Austria

1.1% Finland

1.0% Norway

1.0% Brazil

7.0% Other countries

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Re:Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics... by p1esk on Friday December 26, 2025 @05:30PM (#46397044)
No China or Russia? Strange…
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Re:Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics... by wojciii on Saturday December 27, 2025 @02:45AM (#46400006)
Maybe because of VPN usage?

No reason to get arrested because of viewing a picture of some massacre on a square in a large city or sent to the SMO because one reads some Ukraine news not approved by their government.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics... by throwaway808081 on Saturday December 27, 2025 @10:26PM (#46408098)
HN is blocked in mainland China, so stats of visitors from China are likely to be low. HN is similarly blocked in Russia. Users from these locations would come via VPN.

Unfettered linking of the latest Rust AIs, sharing of random peoples' purchases of Framework laptops, heat over GPLv2 vs. AGPL vs. BSD, and discussion of whether nixOS's use of *nix was or was not prior to Unix's use or Shakespeare's use, is clearly too much for some censors.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics... by KomoD on Sunday December 28, 2025 @09:26AM (#46411290)
> HN is similarly blocked in Russia.

Doesn't seem to be true, the domain doesn't seem to be in Roskomnadzor's blacklist and I can reach it through Globalping nodes (incl. residential nodes)

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