7 Apr 2011 to 7 Apr 2012: – one year of Clustrmaps in paysages. (16.4.2012)

ClustrMaps  is a hit counter map widget which allows showing the locations of the visitors of one specific site in a map. Geographer by education, I was interested to know, where the visitors of “Paysages” come from, so I installed the widget on 7 of April 2011. And since this date its running, providing me and the visitors of paysages nice maps with yellow and red dots. In one year Clustrmaps counted about 13877 readers visiting paysages. Most of the visitors of paysages come from France, followed by visitors from Germany and Tunisia. About more than 80 % of the visitors come from France, Germany, Tunisia, USA & Switzerland (Details see Tab 1.). The fact that a large part of the visitors came from France is not surprising, paysages is a francophone Blog, mainly written in French,  a blog written mostly for readers in the “francophone world”. Some articles are written in German, and very rarely paysages provides “posts” in English, – in fact this article is the tenth post written in English. To finish this blogostatistique – the mostly visited article – (as told by the wordpress – Le Monde dashboard) is – 1949 – l‘incendie meurtrier dans la Forêt des Landes. I have also written an English version of this post called “The Fatal Forest Fire – remembering the “1949 Mega fire” in the „Forêt des Landes” (South West France)” but this article has not got the audience of the “incendie meurtrier”, this perhaps due to the fact that the “drama of the 19 août 1949” is still present in the collective memory of France, – mainly in South West France. Concerning posts written in German, it seems that “Sturm Xynthia : Blick von der Unterhaardt auf La Faute-sur-Mer, L’Aiguillon und Port Leucate” and “Das Biafrakind” have got a broader audience.  Currently since the beginning of paysages – in May 2009 (first English article published on 29 of May 2009) – paysages received 76,477 visitors.

Tab. 1:  The geographical provenance of visitors of paysages from 7.4.2011 – 7.4.2012 (source Clustrmaps 7.4.2012)

Pictures = screenshots from paysages-clustrmaps 7.4.2012

Christophe Neff,  16.4.2012