Behind English, I mean.
My bet's on Japanese. Any idea how one would measure this?
maybe chinese thanks to their high population?
http://global-reach.biz/globstats/index.php3
english: 35.2%
chinese: 13.7%
spanish: 9.0%
japanese: 8.4%
So it is English afterall...
English is probably a lot higher since those numbers are just native speakers.
Chinese is probably pretty high too, not that many Chinese people know English. They're like separate Internets.
>>7
I see. probably you are right.
But I know Japanese internet users are also pretty much separated from English world.
I surf both japanese and english sites
and I usually find there are no japanese people
at all on english sites
while japanese people are usually stuck with japanese pages
they never visit english sites or always use google translation.
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i'd say korean... 17 million koreans are on at ALL times in korea... at least... and thats only the number of online gamers at any given time, not even the people who aren't gaming
>>10
lol 4.1%
less than half of japan's 8.4%
wow spanish it pretty high up there,
but no suprise with chinese there.
>>10-11
i don't mean to sound racist, but if you somehow incorporated starcraft into those statistics koreans would dominate amazingly
>>13
according to that site, the statistics are based on the "total number of people online", which i would think means the number of people who access to the internet, not just the number of people who access one small part of it.
this is interesting, too:
English 68.4%
Japanese 5.9%
German 5.8%
Chinese 3.9%
French 3.0%
Spanish 2.4%
Russian 1.9%
Italian 1.6%
Portuguese 1.4%
Korean 1.3%
Other 4.6%its german actually
Three Huzzahs for the Anglo-sphere!!
russian LOL that's higher up than korean. i bet that's cuz of piracy related stuff. ^^
So far as I know, there are lots of Germans in technical sites. Japanese and Chinese have their own internet. spanish .. i donnu
As far as blogs go, Japanese beats English according to Technorati.
http://www.sifry.com/alerts/Slide0013.gif
http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html
>>21
Well, yeah. At least every 1 in 2 Japanese websites is a blog or is made up largely of a blog. I dare anybody to argue these statistics.
German is awesome. It has words like Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmützenschirmfarbpfützenreinigungspersonalagenturchefsbürotürklinkenpoliturfabrikantenkonferenzsaalhelferstochter.
>>25
Let's see ... Danube steamship company captain's cap shield (for lack of a better word, the part in front that keeps the sun out of your eyes) dye puddle clean-up personnel agency chief's office doorknob polish manufacturers' conference room usher's daughter.
The only real way to gauge that would be based on net usage per capita by country...
Who wants to get started on that statistic?
english chinese spanish japanese are also most used language if i wasn't wrong
but foruming is most by japanese i believe thanks to many otakus in japan and the existance of 2ch
