(Since I made a mistake with the LA numbers in the previous post on the numbers of SBI readership, I decided to re-post this including the full Los Angeles numbers as well as the Top 20 states.)
The first four months of the new Soccer By Ives have come and gone and it is time to take a look at the readers who have helped the site get off to a great start (and will help SBI surpass the 3 million pageview mark at some point today).
I will have a more detailed sampling of things such as favorite clubs and ages once I can break down the latest SBI Reader Roll Call, but I do have some stats that can give you a sense of where SBI readers are checking in from.
Here are the Top 10 countries and states and Top 21 cities with the most SBI readers for the months of March and April (stats provided by Google Analytics):
Top 10 Countries
- USA
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- Mexico
- South Korea
- France
- Spain
- Netherlands
- Japan
Here are the Top 10 states:
Top 20 States (includes DC)
- New York
- California
- New Jersey
- Illinois
- Texas
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- Pennsylvania
- Ohio
- Florida
- District of Columbia
- North Carolina
- Maryland
- Georgia
- Connecticut
- Washington
- Colorado
- Michigan
- Indiana
- Missouri
Top 21 Cities
- New York
- Chicago
- Toronto
- Los Angeles
- Brooklyn
- Washington D.C.
- Dallas
- Boston
- Houston
- Arlington (VA)
- Atlanta
- Seattle
- Denver
- San Francisco
- Columbus
- Austin
- Newark
- Minneapolis
- Raleigh
- Philadelphia
- Hoboken
I was going to just do a top 20 but had to give Hoboken some love for being so high up despite being such a small town.
Also, when I did the original tallies I didn’t factor in suburbs, but once somet big cities were clearly broken up quite a bit into suburbs, I decided to group them. In doing that, I forgot to do that for LA, which is why LA was ranked so low in my original post. As you can see now, LA is actually a top-four city for SBI readership.
Thank you to all of you who have made SBI a regular part of your daily routine.
What do you think of the rankings? Is your city higher up than you thought it would be? Surprised not to see your city listed? Share your thoughts below.
North Carolina! Come on and Raise up
glad to see jersey so high up on that list!
SBI rules.
Neal, you aren’t the only one.
Fort Smith here.
VD, where do you live? I’ve had season tickets since I was 13. While I wasn’t able to go many Galaxy games during their first years, the last seven years we sell out most of our games, and unlike other teams, people actually show up so there isn’t any attendance inflation.
If you want to see a horrible MLS town, look at New York. We have more immigrants than New York but we still manage to support our team just as well, especially when you look at everything there is to do in the city unlike places like DC.
(you really are a horrible troll, work on your game son)
Must be a misprint, they don’t know how to read in Hoboken.
VD, did you just start looking at MLS attendance last year? In case you haven’t noticed, LA has historically led the league in attendance. In fact, our 2005 attendance (2 years before Becks) was almost as high as our attendance with Beckham last year. Do some homework before you start complaining about L.A.
Brooklyn Zoo – I also live a block from the prospect R. Small world.
To all the clowns, that’s fine your town sits 4th considering the city has a total population of 18 mil including the suburbs. Whatever boundaries you use, LA is massive compared to all MLS towns except NYC.
To me, it’s still not a good MLS town. Contrary to the announced attendances, most Galaxy games and Chivas home games sit half empty.. there’s little interest pure and simple. My question is: What happens when Beckham’s contract is finished and the novelty dies down? What is the future of MLS in Los Angeles? Let’s put some teams in towns that are dying for this league and have proven supporters.
Ives,
I’m not surprised at all. Nobody seems to care about soccer in Indiana. /cry
Nice to see Toronto in Top 3 and Canada in 2nd.
Like Papa Bear said, there are blogs that focus on California soccer more than SBI, not to mention in terms of actual soccer, there is much much more love for FMF than MLS/EPL.
But hey, we’re all clowns, what do we know? (we know venereal disease is bad)
I think you should also do least represented states.
very good to see Philly and Seattle crack the top 20 even though they have no franchise yet.
Go Raleigh!
Yeah, but a huge chunk of DC’s fan base lives in Arlington.
Hoboken is to NY as Arlington is to DC except that Arlington is bigger population wise.
Not surprised both rate so high on the list.
Arlington, Va. @ #9? Nice work, neighbors.
Not really surprised to see Atlanta so high. A lot of soccer fans around here, but we can’t get investors to pony up for a franchise.
LA has horrible infrastructure in terms of telecom and IP’s are routinely routed outside of the city.
I know I’ve had people look at my IP and tell me I was in AZ or even West Africa. It’s a bit of a mess.
@Posted by: VD | May 08, 2008 at 03:01 PM
it has little to do with LA fans being apathetic towards their team. It has more to do with this site being east coast biased and done with updates before the West Coast is even halfway through the work day.
Plus there are about 90 California soccer blogs people read here. No offense to Ives but if you are looking for West Coast news you really don’t come here as the coverage is a bit inadequate compared to the WC blogs as can be expected from someone based 4000 miles from said coast.
yes Hoboken ranks!!
I heard that Floyd’s on atlantic ave in Brooklyn was decent for footie action but I have not gone myself with Mulligan’s a few block away from me
Things that concerned me:
-Dallas above Houston is surprising, being that Houston has great supporters (but attendance might just be the result of a horribly-placed stadium)
-No San Jose, Salt Lake, Kansas City, St. Louis or any FL cities (but the State of Florida). I guess San Jose could be linked with San Francisco. But this might show the failure of putting teams in these cities (or thinking of doing it) without much following.
-Seattle, Philly, Minneapolis and Atlanta! Great show for teams that don’t have MLS. Most people are talking about Atlanta, but good response from Minneapolis too.
-Boston, New York (with Brooklyn – yes as a New Yorker- Brooklyn is part of NYC regardless of population), Dallas, and Chicago were all amongst the highest in the city list, meaning: GET MLS TEAMS IN THE BIG CITIES… NO SUBURBS!
-Last…It would be infinitely better if we had percentages. I know this might be a little more risky to post but the stats would be infinitely more meaningful with actual numbers.
“To all the LA clowns,
the only way to settle this dispute of LA being in 14th is to here from Ives himself and how he measured it”
Uh… he did tell you how he measured it. He used Google Analytics to track his site traffic.
c’mon jeff! Vienna is DC like Hoboken is New York!
Just out of curiosity, did you rank DC in the state list as well, or just the cities?
am I they only reader/visitor from Switzerland ?
Theres only two towns inside Chicago Norridge and Harwood heights.
Anyway, the real question on everyone’s mind.
How much is Ives rolling in.
No miami???
It’s amazing how big this blog has become, I remember when you just started this blog and it wasn’t a huge deal. Just some good, light reading on a daily basis. Now it has become a one stop shop for soccer news from all over the globe, not to mention some good discussion on matches and other goings-on in the soccer world.
Good on you Ives! And good on the rest of the SBI Mafia!
Keep up the good work. I am representing ND. How about least represented state?
Oh yeah Fargo –not. haha
How cool is that? Japan, Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, France. So far away!
Taking San Francisco as shorthand for the Quakes, there are only two current or future MLS cities that don’t make the top 20 (21). Salt Lake’s absence surprises me. Kansas City’s does not.
To all the LA clowns,
the only way to settle this dispute of LA being in 14th is to here from Ives himself and how he measured it
Guys – Google Analytics (Ives’ source of data) bases its addresses on where the ISPs report the routing of the IP addresses. Thus the DC metro area will show up with about 20 different names b/c of all the ‘burbs. Ditto Chicago, LA, etc. It also depends on how the IP addresses are registered. In Columbus, anyone in the ‘burbs (like Upper Arlington, Dublin, Westerville, etc) that has RoadRunner through Time-Warner Cable has a “Columbus” IP address b/c that’s where TWC routes them thru their switches.
Ives’ list is pretty neat, and it’s going to be accurate. But it’s going to be accurate within the rules under which such IP-based lists are compiled.
a bit surprised san diego didn’t crack the top-21. perhaps suffering from the l.a. syndrome…?
good to see another el paso dude pop up. i live in austin now but there’s no way you can grow up in el paso and not be at least half decent @ soccer let alone know and like at least one team from the mexican league.
Just a little confused. how is Houston and Dallas ranked so high, but Texas is ranked so low compared to Ill and California. There isnt one California city in the top 10. Must be some funny numbers
CAC,
Yeah, LA suffers from that problem. I lived in Westwood for a while and my IP always showed up in Beverly Hills or, occasionally, Brentwood. But Atlanta suffers from that same problem. I know from looking at my own Google Analytics that Decatur leaches a lot of the traffic that could be Atlanta.
Also, for everyone, let it not be said that Atlanta is a bad sports town. We’re just a terrible town for bad sports. We usually have the 3rd best NBA ratings for the finals after the two cities playing, host the biggest non-BCS bowl game, are consistently in the rotation for final 4s, etc.