Switzerland     2.30
  Sweden          1.73
  Ireland         1.63
  Denmark         1.55
  Norway          1.48
  Netherlands     1.43
  Canada          1.26
  Finland         1.25
  United Kingdom  1.25
  United States   1.24
  Singapore       1.23
  Australia       1.13
  Austria         1.01
  Slovenia        0.95
  Lithuania       0.79
  Croatia         0.73
  Germany         0.70
  Portugal        0.68
  Israel          0.53
  Hong Kong       0.53

I didn't include countries that had less than 0.2% of the visitors because of the error margin caused by the low number of significant digits. Iceland at 0.1% and a population of 370k, for example...

41.2% is not the majority…

Interesting data though, thanks for it. At what UTC time range was the Google Shutdown post at the top of the board?

Or to put it another way if euro becomes one country and US splits into states the stats look a lot different but the same people are using HN all the same.

I know the post's is the data is from HackerNews visitors over a certain period of time -- when it was working time across USA's timezone.

Even on my own personal website (I'm Indian), India is like the 4th highest visitor with a hugh margin of difference from USA's visit. It, however, does catches up with USA to my family website though the difference still remains high with the top visitors - USA.

Come on fellow Dutchies, we gotta move up one spot!

Yeah, this is a tantrum... sorry...

I cannot wait to have IPv6/IPv4 HN access stats too... :P

I did the sorting in Apple Numbers and somehow it botched the percentages. E.g. Iceland (291%) is actually 0.291% but I have no idea how to fix that. And I have to leave now. Sorry.

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Iceland 291 %

Switzerland 229 %

Malta 200 %

Sweden 174 %

Ireland 168 %

Luxembourg 160 %

Denmark 156 %

New Zealand 156 %

Norway 153 %

Estonia 151 %

Netherlands 146 %

Finland 127 %

Canada 126 %

United States 124 %

United Kingdom 124 %

Singapore 120 %

Australia 112 %

Germany 101 %

Austria 101 %

Slovenia 97 %

Cyprus 83 %

Croatia 74 %

Lithuania 71 %

Portugal 67 %

Israel 58 %

Hong Kong 54 %

Latvia 54 %

Belgium 52 %

Czechia 47 %

Bulgaria 42 %

France 40 %

Poland 40 %

Slovakia 37 %

Armenia 33 %

Hungary 31 %

Spain 30 %

Puerto Rico 29 %

Serbia 28 %

Greece 27 %

Bosnia & Herzegovina 26 %

Georgia 26 %

Italy 22 %

Romania 21 %

Taiwan 13 %

Belarus 11 %

United Arab Emirates 10 %

Japan 8 %

Russia 7 %

South Africa 7 %

Argentina 7 %

Ukraine 7 %

Malaysia 7 %

Brazil 6 %

Turkey 6 %

South Korea 6 %

Ecuador 6 %

Chile 5 %

Kazakhstan 5 %

Colombia 4 %

Thailand 3 %

Saudi Arabia 3 %

India 2 %

Indonesia 2 %

Mexico 2 %

Vietnam 2 %

Kenya 2 %

Philippines 1 %

Egypt 1 %

Pakistan 1 %

China 0 %

Nigeria 0 %

There's this strange asymmetry: ask a non-American to name a US Supreme Court justice, a famous American businessman, an entertainer, a politician, and maybe some other categories that I haven't listed. We all know one, even though it might actually be hard to name the same for neighboring countries like Ireland or France.

Ask someone if they know the subdivisions of the USA, and if they know the subdivisions of their own neighbors. Do I know the mayor of anywhere in Ireland or France? I know the mayor of San Francisco.

The culture of what country is in the cinema, or the radio? Everywhere you go, it's the US, plus a little bit of the local. Check the top-10 lists of any country in Europe to see what I mean.

It's so strangely dominating.

The thing I found shocking while attending this course, was that even in a UK university, America was still the most frequent subject of discussion and reference, with the UK playing second fiddle. And then I would read comments as a part of the course from other places in the anglosphere where for instance, they are asked to name the first things that come to mind when they think of 'banal nationalism' and you read things like America's heavy use of bald eagle imagery, the American pledge of allegiance at sporting events, etc.

I've decided that since it seems nearly universal that English speaking countries give America primacy (even in the context of a non-American university focusing on a heavily European oriented subject), that there's no point fighting it. America's cultural hegemony has complete dominance over the English language.

I only take issue with extrapolating US-specific things to the rest of the world. Case in point: I don't agree with around half of the statements on HN that explain something as "human nature" when in fact it's something that usually just the Americans say or do.

I'm a Brit, so yes, the defaultism rankles, but at this point I've just learned to accept that people write from their own perspective and to not accept that is pedantry.

(Somewhat off-topic, but in case anyone cares: we in the US call it the Congress, not parliament.)