Kevin Pacey wrote on Fri, Jul 3, 2020 04:05 AM UTC:
Fergus posted on 6-21-2020:
"Curiously, this site is getting much more traffic from Germany than from Canada. While Germany does have about twice the population, more than ten times as much traffic is coming from Germany. So, population doesn't explain it. This mystery is deepened by the fact that most of the content is in English, which is the language spoken in most of Canada, and very little of the content is in German."
My guess would be chess variants as a whole are more popular in Germany (or Europe) than Canada, besides which opponents for over-the-board CV games could have a harder time meeting in a geographically large and spread-out country like Canada (the USA at least has a huge population by comparison) - so that may keep interest in chess variants as a whole down here (i.e. Canada). Aside from that, afaik English is the most common language used globally in the modern era, and I wouldn't be surprised if many Germans learn at least enough to get by.
On another matter, I haven't been able to find a page on CVP showing traffic to the website (other than for years ago), let alone such a page organized by nations that the traffic comes from. If such a page can be shown to viewers, besides the webmaster and/or editor(s), it might be highly interesting - unless it's too much hard work to create.
Fergus posted on 6-21-2020:
"Curiously, this site is getting much more traffic from Germany than from Canada. While Germany does have about twice the population, more than ten times as much traffic is coming from Germany. So, population doesn't explain it. This mystery is deepened by the fact that most of the content is in English, which is the language spoken in most of Canada, and very little of the content is in German."
My guess would be chess variants as a whole are more popular in Germany (or Europe) than Canada, besides which opponents for over-the-board CV games could have a harder time meeting in a geographically large and spread-out country like Canada (the USA at least has a huge population by comparison) - so that may keep interest in chess variants as a whole down here (i.e. Canada). Aside from that, afaik English is the most common language used globally in the modern era, and I wouldn't be surprised if many Germans learn at least enough to get by.
On another matter, I haven't been able to find a page on CVP showing traffic to the website (other than for years ago), let alone such a page organized by nations that the traffic comes from. If such a page can be shown to viewers, besides the webmaster and/or editor(s), it might be highly interesting - unless it's too much hard work to create.