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Keywords: byondinfo
Alexa.com is a pretty awesome utility, that you guys might want to check out here.


Here's some cool tidbits:

Where people go on Byond.com:

* games.byond.com - 81%
* members.byond.com - 8%
* byond.com - 6%
* developer.byond.com - 5%


Which means at most 5% of the population of BYOND is making games. And at most I'd estimate 2.5% of them are actually making a game.

Byond.com users come from these countries:
United States37.3%
Israel12.3%
Poland9.5%
Brazil7.0%
Canada3.4%

More...
United States 37.3%
Israel 12.3%
Poland 9.5%
Brazil 7.0%
Canada 3.4%
United Kingdom 3.1%
Lithuania 2.6%
Singapore 2.4%
Finland 2.1%
Portugal 2.0%
Argentina 1.9%
Cyprus 1.7%
Venezuela 1.3%
Romania 1.2%
Dominican Republic 0.9%
Netherlands 0.9%
US Virgin Islands 0.8%
Puerto Rico 0.8%
Norway 0.7%
South Africa 0.7%
Mexico 0.7%
Belgium 0.5%
Germany 0.4%
United Arab Emirates 0.4%
Barbados 0.4%
Other countries 4.8%


I've calculated it up and this means that the top 3 languages used on BYOND are:

1. English (Duh)
2. Hebrew (Wow!)
3. Portuguese (Surprise, I thought Spanish would beat this out!)

Wow.

Uh, I mean

O Wow, aquele é realmente surpreendente.
Wait, how do they collect this information? Spyware?
I have noticed a lot of portuguese lately.
You can download a tracker that gets placed in the toolbar, from what I understand. You don't have it secretly placed in there anywhere, and I assume you can uninstall it when you wish. Still, there are some (Jon88, for instance) who hate how it's done.
So where are all these Israeli's then, I have to admit I've never met a single one on BYOND.

Also Hebrew isn't necessarily the second largest language, for a start BYOND can't even support Hebrew let alone any other non-Romanic language, as well as the fact that a lot of Israeli's have English as a first or second language (almost always due to their home country and their home countries education).

(Late, I know, I haven't been around BYOND much).
Yeah I saw this on someone else's blog a while back and it's odd....Because I would never have guessed those stats...maybe they all play dragonball games..who knows.
The predominant languages on BYOND are English, English, and English. Yiddish/Hebrew doesn't appear at all.

Take into consideration the possibility of mistaken visits where "byond" might mean something else in another language.
Old again, but I just remembered that there is a Hebrew organisation called Byond, so most likely any Israeli hits are accidental or curious googlers.