A Snapshot of TakeFivers Around the World
Peeking under the hood of the TakeFiveADay.com can be rather interesting. When Metroxing and I decided to tackle another blog, we really didn’t know just what would turn people on regarding content which is why our first six months or so we wrote just about anything. Since we are both media and culture omnivores, it was not that hard riffing on all sorts of things as you have seen.
Then Metroxing’s Cars posts started getting traction. So much so in fact that this website, TakeFiveADay.com, is itself now fully dedicated to Mattel Pixar Cars with the bulk of the posts relating to collecting the 1:55 diecast line.
The ongoing posts about our loyal readers who have filled out some nifty info on their collecting habit, um, hobby has provided several nice snapshots about our readers at the micro level. But what about the macro level?
For example, you would expect that readers pinging into us reside in the U.S. That is natural and expected since we are based here and post in english. But the data gets really interesting after that first layer of data. Which brings us to a Top 10 list!
Top 10 countries of TakeFive visitors:
#1 – USA
#2 – United Kingdom
#3 – Canada
Now, let me interrupt this list one moment. I must admit that I was surprised to see the UK in the #2 position but from the perspective of nearby geography. To be fair to our Canadian friends, you had the #2 slot until fairly recently so spread the word and take your title back! Heh. Let that be a lesson to us all when considering web 3.0 dynamics: the world has indeed become a much smaller place. Anon. Moving on…
#4 – France
#5 – Australia
#6 – Netherlands
Another surprise for me as the Netherlands total population is roughly 16 1/2 million people. Whereas Italy and Japan clock in at 58 million and 127 million people respectively. It could simply mean that there are more english speaking/reading collectors there but how does that explain France in the #4 slot. Hmmm….more work for us as webmasters. And again, very cool! Moving on…
#7 – Italy
#8 – Japan
#9 – Belgium
#10 – Brazil
Now these final four rounding out our top 10 visitor’s countries provide some intrigue as they are all advanced societies but again english is not their principal language. Dare we say that collecting Cars supercedes all bounds even language? Tempting. Tempting.
For some additional fun, I used an online translator to translate the word ‘cars’ into various languages.
If yours is missing, post it in the comments! From here:
Noun
(American ˌautomoˈbile) a (usually privately-owned) motor vehicle on wheels for carrying people (but if preceded by Mattel Pixar it is a diecast wonder known taking a hoover to your wallet):
| Arabic: | سَيّارَه |
| Chinese (Simplified): | 小汽车 |
| Chinese (Traditional): | 小汽車 |
| Czech: | automobil |
| Danish: | bil |
| Dutch: | auto |
| Estonian: | auto |
| Finnish: | auto |
| French: | auto |
| German: | das Auto |
| Greek: | αυτοκίνητο |
| Hungarian: | kocsi |
| Icelandic: | bíll |
| Indonesian: | mobil |
| Italian: | automobile, macchina |
| Japanese: | 車 |
| Korean: | 차, 자동차 |
| Latvian: | automašīna |
| Lithuanian: | automobilis |
| Norwegian: | bil |
| Polish: | samochód |
| Portuguese (Brazil): | carro |
| Portuguese (Portugal): | carro |
| Romanian: | automobil |
| Russian: | автомобиль;машина |
| Slovak: | auto |
| Slovenian: | avto |
| Spanish: | coche |
| Swedish: | bil |
| Turkish: | araba, otomobil |
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tizmanian
2 March 2009
CARS, Disney Pixar, Internet, Mattel, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Science, Toys
17 Comments
Great information; very intriguing. Thanks Tizmanian!
Have been an avid reader. “Cars” in Filipino, our native language, would be “kotse”. Regards to all from the Philippines.
you should take that a huge compliment that folks from all around the world tune into your words of wisdom on the subject we love most – Cars!
You forgot Texas
😆
No doubt. We should be #1 for sure.
I second that!
Aw… Singapore didn’t make it? Am i the only one? :p
THE NEW LANGUAGE,LINGO,PRONUNCIATION,TALKED ALL AROUND THE WORLD IN LIGHTNING = “CARS” !
I love lists! Thanks for a great post!
I’m happy! I am Brazilian and I live in UK! Second and tenth … yeah
Gooo Australia!
Leading on from the Netherlands comment, Australia’s population is only around the 21-22 million mark. 😀
Second!! I mean Canada…yeah I know UK is , but we are taking it back baby!!!
I bet if they only measured it in sheer number of POSTS Canada would have it baby!!!!!!!
hahahaha, she has a point there!
Argggggg! Bloody Limeys!
Many Canadian friends have left .. once again due to lack of new releases.. How can we compete with USA.. and now 2nd place UK with new ROR case already up to B case and within’ few days will be at Case C …, we’re still at Case K WOC from last August! ..
Let me think…Is it me or USA is right next to Canada .. and UK is on the other side of Atlantic Ocean.. Seems so hard and so far away to get new stuff here.. Canadian TRU ?&?*? , Canadian Walmart ?&?*??, Canadian Mattel and Canadian Mattel REP ?&*?*(?&….
Thanks wishing you all a good evening! 🙂
Hummm… BRAZIL!..