October 2009 Story Stats

So, fanfiction.net is kind enough to provide authors with statistics on their stories (page views, unique page views, and sources by country). I find it interesting that my readership has an international flavour. Here are the countries of origin of my readership (format: Country, Page Views, Page Viewers -- sorry for the formatting ... a table view messes up the blog layout something fierce):

October 2009 Readership stats for geophf/ffn

USA  1150 372 
UK  248 61 
Brazil  88 19 
Canada  65 33 
Australia  61 24 up 3
Ireland  36 10 
Sweden  33 8 
Mexico  29 22 
Israel  22 14 
Italy  22 19 
Belgium  20 6 
Denmark  19 7 
Germany  16 13 
argentina  14 5 up 3
philippines  11 4 
greece  11 3 
france  9 5 
spain  9 3 
Poland  8 5 up 3
costa rica  8 2 
south africa  7 1 
new zealand  7 4 
Lithuania  4 1 
netherlands  4 4 up 1
Singapore  4 4 
croatia  3 2 up 6
trinidad  3 2 
indonesia  2 1 up 2
india  2 2 up 5
russia  2 1 up 14
romania  2 2 up 1
peru  2 1 up 2
colombia  2 1 up 1
tanzania  2 2 
bahrain  2 1 
vietnam  1 1 
turkey  1 1 up 1
switzerland  1 1 
hungary  1 1 
finland  1 1  up 6
bahamas  1 1  up 6
brunei  1 1 up 3
norway  1 1  up 2
estonia  1 1 up 4
dominican  1 1 
malaysai  1 1 

totals: 1938 675 

The "up x" column is a little self-study I did over the last few days of the month. Apparently, the Russian became interested in my story.

The moral of this story is this: do you wish your country to go up in the rating? Read more pages of MSR or another story on my ffn profile, that's how fewer Brazilians managed to edge out the more numerous readers from Canada and Australia (who also made an end of the month come-back) to claim one of the top three spots on the readership list. You could put your country there.

I wonder if I would have more (or any, for that matter) Korean readers if they knew MSR's Book III companion piece was entitled Rhee (이): Lady Didyme's Handmaid.

Thank you to all the readers from all the countries that found something in my stories interesting enough to stop to read them.