Join our zoo community

Celebrating Zoochat's diversity

Discussion in 'ZooChat Community & Website' started by amur leopard, 16 May 2020.

  1. TinoPup

    TinoPup Well-Known Member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    17 Jul 2016
    Posts:
    6,553
    Location:
    .
  2. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

    Joined:
    18 Oct 2003
    Posts:
    4,026
    Location:
    Sydney, Australia
    The following table and chart shows visitors to ZooChat for the month of April based on location. This includes all users - not just members.

    upload_2020-5-20_16-45-7.png

    We've actually seen significant growth in the number of users visiting the site each month over the past year.

    If you plot all visits on a map, there's very few countries that have not had at least one visitor to the site:

    upload_2020-5-20_16-47-4.png

    ... of course, this is rather meaningless in the scheme of things - it only takes one visit from a country to make it appear on the map, it's not as if they have to have signed up to the site or posted or anything.
     
  3. amur leopard

    amur leopard Well-Known Member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    23 Feb 2019
    Posts:
    4,144
    Location:
    London
    Interesting how the visitors is slightly different to the number of members from these places, even though one would have thought that it would correlate quite closely to members.

    Has the growth also been a spreading out among countries or still focused in the same countries? Did we have that coverage before or has this been a recent phenomenon?
     
  4. amur leopard

    amur leopard Well-Known Member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    23 Feb 2019
    Posts:
    4,144
    Location:
    London
    His profile says 'Phoenix' if I remember correctly. I don't think there is a Phoenix in Idaho so I'm pretty sure that is referring to Phoenix AZ.

    That is unfortunate :(. Any rarities or extremely endangered animals?
     
  5. Zooplantman

    Zooplantman Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    23 Jan 2008
    Posts:
    4,144
    Location:
    New York, USA
    No he is in Wichita. Has been for several years
     
  6. amur leopard

    amur leopard Well-Known Member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    23 Feb 2019
    Posts:
    4,144
    Location:
    London
    But his profile says he is in Phoenix...
     
  7. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

    Joined:
    20 Oct 2012
    Posts:
    10,699
    Location:
    Connecticut, U.S.A.
    Having met the man I can assure you he's not in Phoenix, although this is what his profile says.. He did live in Idaho for some years, though, including some on the forum. He then moved to Florida, now Kansas as @Zooplantman said. I believe he is from Phoenix (or at least Arizona) so that might explain it.

    ~Thylo
     
    Zooplantman and amur leopard like this.
  8. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

    Joined:
    18 Oct 2003
    Posts:
    4,026
    Location:
    Sydney, Australia
    Given that 74.8% of our visitor traffic comes from search engines (and 96.5% of our search engine traffic comes from Google), the visitors will be largely driven by how ZooChat is represented in search results in specific countries, combined with variations in what people in each country are actually searching for.

    It's a completely different mechanism to what drives members to join and post.

    Also, English language sites like ZooChat are always going to skew towards specific countries - particularly those where English is the first language.
     
    amur leopard likes this.
  9. Arizona Docent

    Arizona Docent Well-Known Member 15+ year member

    Joined:
    10 Feb 2009
    Posts:
    7,702
    Location:
    Arizona, USA
    Hey the USA beat the UK for once (number of active users)! As for the great Ituri debate, yes he is from Phoenix, Arizona and then moved to Idaho (Boise I believe) and that is where I last tracked him but apparently he has moved on from there.
     
    amur leopard likes this.
  10. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

    Joined:
    5 Dec 2007
    Posts:
    2,933
    Location:
    USA
    Okay, I'll put this all to rest. :D

    I have lived in Phoenix as well as Boise (and a couple other places), but I currently reside in Kansas.
     
  11. ZooBinh

    ZooBinh Well-Known Member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    2 Sep 2017
    Posts:
    3,369
    Location:
    Ohio
    Is it Kansas or OurKansas :D ??
     
    amur leopard likes this.
  12. aardvark250

    aardvark250 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    4 Jan 2016
    Posts:
    1,972
    Location:
    Land of the 'vark
    North Korea is blue. I guess Kim is also a zoo-lover then.
     
  13. Smaggledagle

    Smaggledagle Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    25 May 2020
    Posts:
    6,521
    Location:
    Rhode Island
    Ah shoot, you found a wild Rhode Islander
     
    amur leopard likes this.
  14. amur leopard

    amur leopard Well-Known Member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    23 Feb 2019
    Posts:
    4,144
    Location:
    London
    Recently a member from Cote d'Ivoire joined, so that's another country added! :)
     
    Jungle Man and HungarianBison like this.
  15. amur leopard

    amur leopard Well-Known Member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    23 Feb 2019
    Posts:
    4,144
    Location:
    London
    Recently a member from Montenegro joined - another country added to the total! :)
     
  16. amur leopard

    amur leopard Well-Known Member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    23 Feb 2019
    Posts:
    4,144
    Location:
    London
    Updated map - notable additions include Panama (missed off the last one), Cote D'Ivoire, Montenegro and Vietnam :)

    zoochat map full.png

    Impressive nonetheless - hopefully over the next few years (decades?) as South American and African zoos in particular develop in size and quality, we may well have a few more countries to add :).

    Please tell me if I have missed any, input very welcome.
     
    Last edited: 23 Feb 2021
    TinoPup and Junklekitteb like this.
  17. Junklekitteb

    Junklekitteb Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    13 Sep 2019
    Posts:
    676
    Location:
    India
    Chile seems to have been missed, although admittedly the only member I know of from there is quite new.
     
    amur leopard likes this.
  18. amur leopard

    amur leopard Well-Known Member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    23 Feb 2019
    Posts:
    4,144
    Location:
    London
    Thanks for spotting that, I've edited it now :).
     
    Junklekitteb likes this.
  19. JT

    JT Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    28 Oct 2020
    Posts:
    495
    Location:
    UK
    Would it be possible to make a map of what areas of the UK members are from? Something similar to the US states one
     
  20. amur leopard

    amur leopard Well-Known Member 5+ year member

    Joined:
    23 Feb 2019
    Posts:
    4,144
    Location:
    London
    I will try, but there might be the added complication that people are less likely to put their exact location in their profile as opposed to just 'UK'.