Global usage statistics of drupal.org - Which languages do we speak?

Here's some data from drupal.org from March this year.

Are you sure this is correct?

What about Australia and New Zealand? They are English speaking countries.

For Canada, it is a country of some 33 million people, but more than 7 million are French speakers. So adjust for this.

I am not sure what you are trying to tell us. THe non-native-English-speakers sure wouldn't visit d.o i they couldn't read English to some degree.

14,000 Germans in 300 millions is statistically insignificant.

Here is another thing: crawlers vs. humans.

If you can segment the traffic, using the User Agent in Apache's log, then you can tell which visitors are crawlers and which are humans (roughly). This can tell you if the non-English areas are overrepresented in crawlers or on-par with the English areas.

Here is another thing that we can do, but means a patch for Drupal. Drupal can log the language/locale coming from the browsers (e.g. en-US, en-CA, fr-CA, de-DE), and that would give a more accurate breakdown of language vs. country, and even who has more than one language/locale enabled (e.g. chinese and english, vs. chinese only). That would be a more accurate estimate, coupled with the IP address (for location) and User Agent (human vs. crawler). It will have to be in the future too, can't use existing data.

The data I provided did not include crawlers. Or at least awstats said so.

Dries has provided info, fixed.

The attached file is a spreadsheet based on Dries' Drupal.org country demographics (2008-05-27).

It's old data, the current numbers can be quite different. And take into account that non-English speakers tend to use translated documentation rather than English-only drupal.org.

The columns are:

A. World regions and countries, sorted by drupal.org registered users percentage in descending order.
B. Country data from Dries' post, excepting non-listed countries and erroneous Afghanistan data. (Total: 84.19%).
C. World regions data, using addition functions. (Total: 84.19%).
D. World regions data, proportionally distributed. (Total: 100%).

Also, these are the numbers as text:

Drupal.org demographics    84.19      84.19        100
                                           
                                           
1. North America                      37.35      44.36
                                           
United States              33.12           
Canada                      4.23           
                                           
                                           
2. Europe                             26.39      31.35
                                           
United Kingdom              5.14           
Germany                     3.03           
Spain                       1.91           
Netherlands                 1.84           
Italy                       1.83           
France                      1.79           
Russian Federation          1.59           
Belgium                     1.35           
Hungary                     1.03           
Turkey                      0.97           
Poland                      0.91           
Sweden                      0.81           
Czech Republic              0.65           
Romania                     0.57           
Ukraine                     0.54           
Denmark                     0.52           
Portugal                    0.52           
Switzerland                 0.50           
Norway                      0.46           
Austria                     0.43           
                                           
                                           
3. Asia-Pacific                       15.55      18.47
                                           
India                       5.68           
Australia                   2.22           
China                       1.95           
Indonesia                   1.58           
Philippines                 0.99           
Viet Nam                    0.77           
Thailand                    0.75           
Malaysia                    0.72           
New Zealand                 0.45           
Singapore                   0.44           
                                           
                                           
4. Latin America                       2.84       3.37
                                           
Brazil                      1.58           
Mexico                      0.69           
Argentina                   0.57           
                                           
                                           
5. Middle East                         1.37       1.63
                                           
Israel                      0.47           
Iran                        0.46           
Pakistan                    0.44           
                                           
                                           
6. Africa                              0.69       0.82
                                           
South Africa                0.69           

if you are just checking from where people connect from, and decide if they are native English speakers, then you are probably considering people who is just visiting English speaking countries.

I am not sure how much of them there could be, but for sure there are people who work in USA, i.e., and who are not native English speakers.

Thanks Juan, this info is very useful

Drupal.org users from countries with Drupal groups (data from Drupal local groups directory, numbers updated 2009-11-16):

1. North America 165,119
2. Europe 128,465
3. Asia-Pacific 84,402
4. Latin America 23,296
5. Middle East 13,802
6. Africa 6,130

Total (all six world regions): 421,214

Total (all users): 513,110

It's important to note that there are several large (and many small) communities that don't primarily speak English that communicate and collaborate on third party websites (not on g.d.o). This primarily affects Asia-Pacific and Latin America, and possibly Middle East and Africa too.

Does anyone have any updated stats?