If you have ever wondered where SBI readers check in from most often, you might be surprised at what the numbers reveal.
We started out as a New York/New Jersey-dominated website before re-launching as a nationally-focused soccer news site in 2008. In the three years since we have managed to develop a well-balanced readership that represents American soccer fans very evenly.
Here is a rundown of the top cities, states and countries for SBI readership, based on traffic statistics taken over the past six months:
TOP 20 STATES FOR SBI READERSHIP
- California
- New York
- Texas
- Illinois
- New Jersey
- Washington
- Virginia
- Pennsylvania
- Massachusetts
- Florida
- District of Columbia
- Ohio
- North Carolina
- Maryland
- Georgia
- Colorado
- Michigan
- Oregon
- Indiana
- Utah
TOP 25 CITIES FOR SBI READERSHIP
- New York
- Washington D.C.
- Chicago
- Seattle
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
- Houston
- Atlanta
- Boston
- Denver
- Philadelphia
- Columbus
- Dallas
- Arlington, VA
- Portland
- Austin
- Minneapolis
- Salt Lake City
- San Diego
- Raleigh/Durham
- Brooklyn
- Toronto
- Miami
- St. Louis
- Indianapolis
TOP 10 COUNTRIES
- USA
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- Mexico
- France
- South Korea
- Japan
- Italy
- Australia
TOP 25 FOREIGN CITIES (Excluding Canada)
- London
- Mexico City
- Seoul
- Paris
- Melbourne
- Athens
- Hong Kong
- Berlin
- Bangkok
- Buenos Aires
- Tokyo
- Madrid
- Dublin
- Zurich
- Johannesburg
- Sydney
- Manchester
- San Jose, Costa Rica
- Munich
- Milan
- Rome
- Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
- Munster, Germany
- Stockholm
- Guadalajara
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If you are curious about how these rankings stack up to past rankings, here is our rundown of traffic rankings from fall of 2008, SBI's first year as an independent website.
Surprised by some of the rankings? Is your city in the Top 25? Which city impressed you with its ranking?
Share your thoughts below.
Ives-thought about adding a Clustermap to graphically show the numbers of visitors worldwide?
Interesting to see how highly ranked the non-MLS cities and states are.
Great to see Hong Kong! Nice to know I’m not the only one watching the games here…
RSL!
I just moved to the UK (Oxford) from Canada (Prince George)…so I assume I’ll be bringing up the UK numbers 🙂
Thanks Ives for this site, it is even more important for me to check this site for MLS news…along with the Canadian site I follow as well.
I just moved to the UK (Oxford) from Canada (Prince George)…so I assume I’ll be bringing up the UK numbers 🙂
Thanks Ives for this site, it is even more important for me to check this site for MLS news…along with the Canadian site I follow as well.
SEOUL REPRESENTED Very Nice
I’m holding it down for Albuquerque, New Mexico!
Considering that I log in from my office computer in Paris about 20 times a day, I wonder how much of the Paris/France traffic I am responsible for…
And my regards to Faruque at Save in Bamyan! 🙂
+1
I’d make the drive every weekend from The Fort. Hell, I’ve driven to Columbus to catch a match quite a few times.
Yes, we need a survey list, and then we can compare the two lists. And decide which list is superior and will be used in the allotment of MLS expansion teams.
Any US soccer fans currently manning the research stations down in Antarctica?
What is this anti-American nonsense? VA and PA should be kicked out of the union and forced to participate in the Commonwealth Games…
By having funny accents.
Franklin NY, just 11 miles from Oneonta, former home of the NSHOF
Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola played MF for William Paterson does that count.
Nah, I’ve noticed several people commenting on here from Denver. We definitely hold our own on this site. I think our ranking of 10 goes to show how poorly the FO has done in getting fans to games. And the move to Commerce City was…clearly not motivated by getting fans to games. The attendance dropped in half after the move
Continuing off topic, doesn’t Pennsylvania also consider itself a commonwealth?
Probably not significant, but I would guess some folks have an ISP in a nearby town or city, so mining their IP address might show them from a slightly different place.
(Judging by the ads that pop up in my browser with the name of my ISP’s town 60 miles away).
Still would guess that metro areas would be close to proportional as far as population/traffic.
Kunduz and Charikar should have registered at least a blip too!
Some places overseas I’ve lived over the last 2-3 years came up as “unknown” on the site meter. So some of the more obscure locations might not register.
check your punctuation b4 you clown on the dude’s spelling…lol
snookie is not what i would consider talent. she is more of a disgrace to any1 from the tri city area…breezie is nasty and i always wondered how someone so unattractive made it on television. I truly think that the show jersey shore makes people lose brain cells, and I do not allow that program to be viewed when i’m in the vicinity…
Are you going to post a breakdown of the reader survey from earlier this month? I noticed you said this post is based on page hits, not unique views, and presumably people didn’t bother creating different names and e-mail adresses to respond to the survey multiple times, so it would be interesting to see if there are any dramatic differences in these lists based on the survey rather than traffic.
(It would also be interesting to post a breakdown of the other stats from that survey, like ages and the male/female split. Maybe a top 10 of the clubs and countries most supported by SBI readers).
No, you’re not the only one in Fresno. I am, unfortunately, also in The ‘No for the time being.
lol you’re right
Ives/SBI,
It seems your readers like to talk about themselves! No surprise as its the human condition but still, its kind of funny.
Somewhat in that vein, how about some more ‘you write the caption’ posts? A bit of community generated humor is always fun. The Donovan doll one is still my fave of those I’ve caught.
My congrats to you, your website certainly has captured all the continents.
I second the general sentiment of this. I’m constantly readin (infrequently post) and seem to often miss these.
Rep! Thanks for that!!
Yeah, this I’d really like to see!
A case of one of these is not like the others for sure:
So Atlanta has a higher rank than 8 current MLS cities, plus Arlington and Brooklyn. We can definitely handle an MLS team down here.
I’m glad to hear from a kindred spirit! I’m also a huge female fan and would not have admitted my age (52) until your post gave me courage. I do my share to put South Carolina on the map for Ives. Love the site and the beautiful game!
Hudson County REP
So it turns out that I visit this site more than I realized. I own a Mac, so my address bar will complete it for me…for example http://www.c turns into http://www.cnn.com. but when i just type www it fills in the rest or this sites address!
someone needs to brush up on their spanish I
“por” is a very adaptable preposition, it can mean “by”, “for”, “at”, “per”, “as”, and “to”, among others.
Great breakdown of information. Just wonder if I can claim the distinction of being not only one of the few females, but the oldest SBIer at 64 (65 in Feb!)
Hope I’m helping uphold San Diego’s place.
Someone figure out who this is, it has to be an American, right…
I’m not seeing the part of my comment where I said it wasn’t just one website….
I’m referring specifically to the top 25 cities list FOR THIS WEBSITE, I think that’s pretty clear.
a floating soccer stadium under the golden gate bridge…… 😉
I’m, surprised you spelled Fresno correctly. Thank Jesus for spell check.
Cuuuuuuuuuuleroooooooooooo!
Jesus forgot about us but maybe Satan remembered…..
Infidel por vida!
WESTSIIIIIIDE!!
Oddly, it’s not. There are no bases there at all, and no “main” base really, other than Ramstein Air Base.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And three years ago nobody around Seattle even heard of MLS.. go figure.
Actually Munster is #23, but good point in general. I’m pretty sure that isn’t the location of the main US base, but I could be wrong . . .