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A closer look at the SBI Mafia (April-May)

Good afternoon folks. As you may recall, more than a month back I gave you all a breakdown of where SBI readers were checking in from. Since the feedback to those figures was so positive I decided to do it again.

Soccer By Ives surpassed the 4 million pageview mark all-time earlier this week, with May setting a new monthly record for visits (a record that looks like it will be broken in June).

Here is a rundown of the Top 20 states and Top 25 cities for SBI readership for the combined months of April and May (stats courtesy of Google Analytics):

TOP 20 STATES

  1. New York
  2. California
  3. New Jersey
  4. Illinois
  5. Texas
  6. Virginia
  7. Massachusetts
  8. Pennsylvania
  9. Ohio
  10. Florida
  11. District of Columbia
  12. Maryland
  13. North Carolina
  14. Georgia
  15. Washington
  16. Connecticut
  17. Colorado
  18. Indiana
  19. Michigan
  20. Missouri

Now, onto the Top 25 cities for SBI readership:

Top 25 CITIES

  1. New York
  2. Toronto
  3. Chicago
  4. District of Columbia
  5. Los Angeles
  6. Brooklyn
  7. Boston
  8. Dallas
  9. Atlanta
  10. Columbus
  11. Houston
  12. Denver
  13. Arlington (Va.)
  14. Seattle
  15. Austin
  16. San Francisco
  17. Minneapolis
  18. Long Island City
  19. Salt Lake City
  20. Philadelphia
  21. Newark
  22. Harrison
  23. Portland
  24. Indianapolis
  25. Hoboken

For those of you wondering what the stats for March-April looked like, here they are. And if you’re wondering about countries, The same ten countries were in the Top 10. Spain moved up (thanks to the Jozy Altidore transfer no doubt) while Mexico moved down. Here are the Top 25 cities outside of North America for SBI readership (Keep in mind that aside from London, which would finish somewhere between 25-30 among overall cities with most SBI readership, the total numbers for these cities are pretty small compared to the U.S. numbers):

Top 20 International Cities

  1. London
  2. Paris
  3. Seoul
  4. Vienna
  5. Budapest
  6. Barcelona
  7. Buenos Aires
  8. Granada, Spain
  9. Rome
  10. Sydney
  11. Leipzig, Germany
  12. Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia
  13. Heerenveen, Netherlands
  14. Stockholm
  15. Tokyo
  16. Melbourne, Australia
  17. Frankfurt
  18. Dublin
  19. Pyongtaek, South Korea
  20. Lisbon

What do you think of the rankings? Is your city higher up or lower than you thought it would be? Surprised not to see your city listed? Share your thoughts below and thanks to all of you who have helped SBI get off to a strong start.

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Comments

  1. Paul – Well, I work here in Mongolia. I’m probably it for SBI, though maybe not. The foreign (Western) population here is in the 1000s with multilateral/international oranizations, foreign government workers (including 100 or so US Peace Corps volunteers and British VSO volunteers), int’l coorporations (massive mineral wealth here), missionary types and more. Plus there are a lot of tourists here in the spring/summer/fall. And the Internet is everywhere – even out in the countryside.

    Other than me, I suppose there could be a stray TFC fan or 2 checking in, as one of the biggest mining companies with operations here is Canadian, and they have a LOT of Canadian managers and engineers here.

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  2. Hey Ives…Am I the only one from South Dakota checking out your blog? -Trevallion

    hahhaha and I’m wondering if I’m the only one from North Dakota.

    Mongolia wow!

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  3. Ives,

    Congrats on the popularity of SBI — I hope it is also translating over to an increase in your income. I’m sure there are many loyal readers like myself that hope you are financially benefiting — you do a great job.

    Please, someone, explain what (or who) is going on in Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia? Is there a consulate, an American mission or just some dudes from Jersey on an extended vacation?

    cheers.

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  4. Well, I know for a fact that I am the only Arkansan who lives in Edinburgh that reads this blog daily. I am so proud….

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  5. Am I the person responsible for the #5 ranking of Budapest? There doesn’t seem to be that many Americans who live here.

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  6. Total numbers of SBI readers is clearly important, but should we be surprised that NY and Cal lead the way since they are numbers 1 and 3 in population. If we take each states rank in population and compare it to the rank in readers, we get a crude measure on state intensity of readership. What do we find? The most overrepresented readership is from CONN (15 in readers, 29 in population=+14) By the way, I am not from CONN. The intensity table reads CONN +14, MD +8, NJ +7, COL/MASS/VA +6 and GA +4. The least intensive readership is from MICH -10, FLA -6 and TX -3. This measure would be improved if we had actual readership versus population. I wonder how my state of OR would do?

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  7. Hey Ryan Gennuso, you’re not alone. I had visitors from 38 different cities in Louisiana during April and May (with Baton Rouge the most well-represented).

    And Trevallion, with South Dakota checking in at last place among the states you just might be the lone reader in South Dakota. Actually, I’ve had readers from nine South Dakota cities. I’ll assume you’re the Sioux Falls representation (there’s also a regular reader from Rapid City).

    Don’t you just love Google analytics?

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  8. For those of you wondering, Raleigh was 26th and Phoenix was 27th. Now, if I ranked Raleigh and Durham together, Raleigh/Durham would be 20th overall.

    Also, Brooklyn gets its own ranking because Analytics ranks it seperately. I grouped suburbs together with major cities if the suburbs didn’t have their own large rankings.

    And Geoff, New York has a pretty good lead right now but Toronto’s total is pretty staggering. For example, Toronto has more than double the visits that LA has and LA is fifth overall. New York has almost three times the visits that LA has.

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  9. Very surprised to see that Raleigh, North Carolina is no longer on the list. We were around 18 on the last list I believe.

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  10. I think I may be in the only person in Louisiana that reads this blog, and I am certainly the only one that resides in Alexandria, Louisiana.

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  11. Brooklyn is a part of NYC, but most people from Brooklyn (myself included), think of themselves more as being from Brooklyn than NYC which most people think of as Manhattan. For example, most of us refer to a trip into manhattan as a trip into the “city”.

    And we have the right to say that, because we are the most populous borough, and if we weren’t part of NYC, we’d be like the 4 largest city anyway.

    BROOKLYN STAND UPP!!!

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  12. I wonder how the states stack up if you go by percentage of the population. Because California’s got like 2.5 billion people.

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  13. Hey Ives. I’m not surprised not to see anywhere in AZ on the list but I’m proud to be at least one person out in Tucson who checks in everyday.

    Keep it up.

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  14. I thought Brooklyn was a borough of NYC. Also Arlington is basically Wash DC.

    Harrison=Hoboken=Newark.

    How does the list look if you combine metro areas?

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  15. Hey Ives, am I the only person who lives in Mississippi and reads your blog daily? I just want to know. I am a displaced Jersey boy.

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