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Map Of Digg Traffic

by Shawn @ 10:47 am · filed under Tech Stuff, Blogs

At the beginning of last November, I had the idea to do an automatic geolocation system for blog/website owners called Geo Visitors.

This blog got quite a bit of traffic in the last 24 hours (because of a front-page digg). Anyway, check out what the maps look like for visitors to this blog in the last 24 hours... It's crazy how much traffic digg can bring you in a short amount of time. Thankfully my quick little caching mechanism I did for WordPress last time I had something in digg, held up (last time WordPress was thrashing my servers because of the traffic).

The World

Europe

United States

New York area

If you want to check out the map in realtime (or use it for your own blog/site), click here.

44 Responses to “Map Of Digg Traffic”

  1. si Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 5:12 am

    i like the guy over there in russia; hahah.

  2. Keith Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 5:14 am

    I am truly amazed at the number of Digg users in New York! It is like a swarmp of bee hives situated near the coast.

    In the World Map, it is pretty interesting to note that most of the users come from UK and US. Very interesting…

  3. Tom Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 5:36 am

    wow, this is truly amazing look at the whole world thats intense… digg.com made it big real bigg

  4. Lasse Katt Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 5:37 am

    I’m disappointed in the exclusion of Sweden…

  5. asnn Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 5:44 am

    “pretty interesting to note that most of the users come from UK and US. Very interesting…”

    i dont find that interesting, the articles at digg are in english…so it is going to be popular at english speaking countries

  6. Rook Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 5:49 am

    What about Canada *tear* Actually it looks like my area (Southern Ontario) is about as packed as NY… of course My area is 1/3 of the provice where NY is a City, so it’s all in scale of course =P

  7. Hector Torvisque Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 5:51 am

    @Keith: The fact that most visitors come from the UK and US must surely only be interesting to the simplest of minds. Digg is an English language website - and guess what? They speak French is France, Spanish in Spain and English in the UK and US!

  8. epeters208 Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:05 am

    It’s mainly the US and UK because they are two english speaking countries.

  9. floodedCodeBoy Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:21 am

    awww aww dose liddle ppl down in south africa… hey wait… i’m not the only one on the very tip am i?!

  10. brian Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:31 am

    I wish I was on the Lake front like the map shows!

  11. scotsboyuk » The digg Effect Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:39 am

    […] The digg effect is when a website is linked to on digg’s frontpage and receives a huge amount of traffic within a short space of time. Small sites can crash under the weight of traffic that is directed at them, ironically being put offline by the very people who want to see the site. One chap who has had a couple of stories featured on digg made this blog entry about the effect his latest story featured on digg had on his site. He includes maps of the global traffic dispersal pattern that I found rather interesting. […]

  12. Oldfield Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:43 am

    What’s Europe for you? No Sweden, no half Italy, no Greece and NO SPAIN!!

  13. Eric Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:45 am

    Look at the northern half of Belgium though… Packed with users, yet most of them speak Flemish!

  14. macewan Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:50 am

    Doesn’t look like North Carolina is represented very well.

  15. Benjamin Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:53 am

    Looks like most of Africa, Russis, and Mongolia don’t have computers or Internet!

  16. Radu Marginean Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:54 am

    This makes me happy :)

  17. www.nasso.org » Blog Archive » Digg Traffic Plotted On Google Maps (Real-Time) Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 10:10 am

    […] Now you know where all those Diggers hide out… Detailed images of Digg crowd in New York, US, Europe and the World in general. Surprised to see so many Dutch people as opposed to very few German Diggers.read more | digg story […]

  18. squirrel Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 10:23 am

    # floodedCodeBoy Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 9:21 am

    awww aww dose liddle ppl down in south africa… hey wait… i’m not the only one on the very tip am i?!

    Nope, i’m also here :)

  19. Haso Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 11:29 am

    Well digg come over to newyork/ michigan.. ull get more people than in fcking cali.

  20. Iceland Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 12:21 pm

    Since when are we not a part of Europe?

  21. Insane40k Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 12:46 pm

    @si: i like the guy over there in russia; hahah.

    What? They spotted me! Noooo
    Didn’t you know, there are no computers in Russia? Only bears and drunken clowns wondering the streets :)

  22. Ryan Clark » Blog Archive » Digg Traffic Plotted On Google Maps (Real-Time) Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 12:47 pm

    […] read more | digg story […]

  23. glych Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 12:47 pm

    See those lonely two dots in central Saskatchewan?

    That’s me and my boyfriend.

    -glych

  24. East End Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 1:00 pm

    That’s me in Sag Harbor, on the east end of Long Island’s south fork!

  25. mark Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 4:19 pm

    what’s the country located north of Madagascar? :S

  26. Shawn Says:
    May 18th, 2006 at 4:23 pm

    Believe it or not, that pin actually is a real place… Seychelles.

    http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/se.html

    Population of that country is estimated at 81,541. :)

  27. Ofer Says:
    May 19th, 2006 at 12:18 am

    “We are on the map and we are staying on the map.” - Tal Brody, former Maccabi Tel Aviv captain after Maccabi Tel Aviv won its first European Championship in the late 70s.

  28. Koke Says:
    May 19th, 2006 at 8:19 am

    Im the one from Chile!!!

  29. eimhin Says:
    May 19th, 2006 at 11:04 am

    that dude in russia must have real bad b.o. … all the other diggers dont seem to want to hand around with him…. i see me!!

  30. ... Says:
    May 20th, 2006 at 5:08 am

    Spain and Portugal are Europe.

  31. StealFrame » Blog Archive » Digg Traffic Plotted On Google Maps (Real-Time) Says:
    May 20th, 2006 at 9:32 am

    […] read more | digg story […]

  32. James Says:
    May 20th, 2006 at 11:32 am

    Bahamas, representin’. :P

  33. Tom Says:
    May 21st, 2006 at 7:56 pm

    See calgary albeta? that’s me

  34. Andrew Kao Says:
    May 23rd, 2006 at 2:49 am

    I don’t see myself on the map.. but I DO see someone pinned at my local starbucks =p

  35. Digg Traffic Plotted On Google Maps (Real-Time) - The Digg Effect - Search for Diggs or get Dugg Says:
    May 23rd, 2006 at 5:30 am

    […] Now you know where all those Diggers hide out… Detailed images of Digg crowd in New York, US, Europe and the World in general. Surprised to see so many Dutch people as opposed to very few German Diggers.read more | digg story […]

  36. Michael_Goldman Says:
    June 19th, 2006 at 9:18 am

    hmm that’s pretty cool, i think I can see myself there :D

  37. Adrian Says:
    September 3rd, 2006 at 11:15 pm

    From what I see, Seems like less than half the world or probably one third of the world is into digg. There is still room to grow!

  38. Ryder Says:
    November 29th, 2006 at 12:42 pm

    Does any one know how digg does those google ads so they are just one large one at the top?
    Jump on to any digg article to see what i mean (cant post links yet)

  39. Jim Says:
    May 14th, 2007 at 7:26 pm

    Wow that is crazy cool.

  40. butlimous Says:
    August 24th, 2007 at 5:44 am

    Thanks for sharing these COOL stats!

  41. free iphone Says:
    December 18th, 2007 at 10:18 am

    Interesting pics. I’m surprised some are on the oceans?

  42. Chris Says:
    April 18th, 2008 at 7:56 am

    Hi!

    very interesting stuff! Do you have any numbers on that?
    Like shw many percent from the States, how many from the East Coast? How many from Europe etc?

    Cheers,
    Chris

  43. Jenny Says:
    January 28th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

    I think digg’s traffic is great. It is about 8 times comparing to splashdot. Digg is popular to the world including Western, Eastern, and Asian countries.

    Thanks for sharing this great article.

    Jenny.

  44. Jan Says:
    March 5th, 2009 at 6:13 am

    cool almost real time traffic :)

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