I checked DU's Alexa data. Interesting. Why so many folks from India here?

[mahina]

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/democraticunderground.com

A greater percent of site visits from India than from Canada, Australia or the UK.

I find that very curious!


Country % of visits rank in country
US 76.4% 2,857
India 3.0% 49,576
Canada 2.5 15,147
United Kingdom 1.9% 29,000
Australia 1.7% 15,861

[LiberalArkie]

1. Damn, that is strange. I have never heard of anyone saying they were in India before.

[steve2470]

5. Recursion lives in India right now nt

[darkangel218]

6. There is a DUer here who lives in India

And some I think visit there.. Aside from that, no idea

[arcane1]

2. Another weird stat:

Top Keywords from Search Engines

Which search keywords send traffic to this site?

Keyword Percent of Search Traffic

1. netanyahu harsh offensive 13.06%
2. democratic underground 4.18%
3. 200000/12 3.11%
4. ben carson pompeii 1.80%
5. puting 1.64%


I'm not exactly sure how 3 and 5 results in people ending up here

[Renew Deal]

10. 200000/12

16666.66666666667

[treestar]

3. there are a lot people in India

over a billion. The percentage is sort of in the neighborhood - all low.

[darkangel218]

4. Hmm. Thats really odd

[mahina]

35. Right? I am responsible for a local website and our visitors are all from the US, Canada and Japan.

One or two a month from India.

If the Alexa data reflected bot crawls, we'd show them too. Same with the other possibilities above.





I have a few ideas about who those folks are.

[Renew Deal]

39. Anecdotal evidence

What's your alexa rating?

[darkangel218]

40. Like someone else suggested,

Could be that some posters use proxy's?

[Renew Deal]

7. Probably ISP's that route through India

[mahina]

36. I don't think so, see above.

[Renew Deal]

42. Here are complaints from people saying their searches say india when using ATT

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/33u9zi/why_does_google_think_im_in_india/

So it does happen. Most people don't notice, care, or complain.

[uppityperson]

8. Could it be our frequent flyer zombies doing the IP thingie through a place there?

[steve2470]

11. I thought of that also, a proxy location there nt

[uppityperson]

17. That's the proper term, proxy location vs thingie. Thanks

[cyberswede]

25. ...or passport spammers.

[LiberalArkie]

9. Look at this

How popular is democraticunderground.com?
Rank in United States
United States Flag 2,857


How popular is discussionist.com?
Rank in United States
United States Flag 40,225

How popular is hillaryclintonsupporters.com?
Rank in United States
United States Flag 614,561

[Cal Carpenter]

12. Do Alexa stats include bots?

I would assume so, and given how quickly DU changes and the number of different pages/links on DU with all the different threads, permalinks, etc I would imagine it gets a hell of a lot of hits from bots. I wouldn't be surprised that many bots originate in India.

I admin a very small business website and at minimum 10% of our hits are from bots, probably more. And I only update the pages once a week or so, there are only 6 pages on the site. I am not an expert on any of this - have just learned by doing, but that's my guess.

Anyone who actually knows about this stuff, please correct me if I'm wrong.

[MosheFeingold]

13. There are paid posters on all social media, especially poltical social media

I've seen the hot houses with my own eyes.

They are given marching orders of the day; there are accounts left open for that purpose, and they spread the message for that day.

The "tell" is usually old accounts (kept around for credibility purposes) that are mostly inactive after campaign season (post just enough to keep from getting deactivated) and then come on hard and fast (often 24 hr/day posting) during the season.

Every sophisticated campaign does this.

[Gregorian]

18. That was my gut feeling, but I couldn't believe it.

Thanks to your reply I can now believe it. The chain of command must be really weird. Rent a message. I guess there's nothing new about that.

[MosheFeingold]

20. I will probably get banned

But I am very aware of a certain Democrat leader who uses the "concern troll" message to make a certain curly headed Jewish man appear to be unelectable.

Trump is uses this method to great effect on Facebook.

Romney was a master of it during the Republican primaries.

[MeNMyVolt]

22. FFS.

[MosheFeingold]

31. Here you go

http://www.vocativ.com/usa/us-politics/hillary-clinton-has-more-fake-twitter-followers-than-other-candidates/

[jwirr]

43. You are not the only one who has thought of that.

[pampango]

14. It's the largest English-speaking country in the world by a large factor.

Not too surprising that it is #2 in terms of DU locations. Glad to see there are so many liberals who want to engage in discussions here from India.

[MosheFeingold]

41. Denial

Is not just a river in Egypt.

[Atman]

16. Methinks this is a soft reply to the story about Trump's support?

Forgive me for not having the link. It should be readily available, regarding the story today that the vast majority of Trump's FB likes come from "Like Mills" in India, Malaysia, and the Far East.

IOW, the majority of Trump's online support does not come from actual U.S. voters.

So suddenly this story pops up.

Alexa is bullshit if you only read the numbers. It is only raw data, and much more information needs to be gleaned before any conclusion can be reached. In this case...who cares? Is anyone spouting DU in the news and polls?

[MosheFeingold]

21. Do you have a link to the Trump "like mills" story?

I'd love to read it and confirm my paranoia.

[MosheFeingold]

24. Trying to find it without success

Given that Malaysia is a heavily Muslim country, that's pretty amusing.

[MosheFeingold]

26. Found it

http://www.vocativ.com/usa/us-politics/donald-trump-facebook-likes/


Thanks!

[Atman]

29. Thanks!

Sorry, I was posting that just before taking a break. I couldn't quickly locate the link.

[mahina]

38. I hadn't read the article you post.

I'm not responding to it at all. Thanks though.

[tawadi]

19. Practicing English for call centre experience?

[joshcryer]

23. That's single-handedly DUer Recursion.

[pinboy3niner]

27. And his army of cabana monkeys

[Blus4u]

28. Probably checking on the discussion about

HB1 Visas.

heh heh heh


Peace

[pangaia]

30. I don't get those numbers. ?

Country % of visits rank in country

US 76.4% 2,857
India 3.0% 49,576
Canada 2.5 15,147
United Kingdom 1.9% 29,000
Australia 1.7% 15,861

Does it mean 76% of Americans visit DU? I doubt it.
OR-- 76.4% of American visitors is 2,857 but 3% of Indian visitors is 49,576..?

Can somebody smarter than I please explain?

I don't get quantum physics.

[GummyBearz]

34. I read it to mean

the percentage is the percentage of DU visitors... so 76.4% of DU visitors are American. The 2,857 "rank in country" means this is the 2,857th most popular internet website in America

[pangaia]

37. Ah ha.. That makes sense. Thanks..

[merrily]

32. The decline from around October 2014 is notable as well.

[olddots]

33. just a glitch

these are posts from Indiana ....