"how much food does 1 person in africa eat" - so who are you anyway?

What follows is a very unscientific analysis of YOU people! I suppose almost everyone who has a counter on their homepage checks the information acquired of visitors every now and then. I remember some bloggers that have similarly been wondering who are you? (for example here)

Well, according to my counter (the little box on the lower left corner) most of the visitors who end up reading this blog seem to find here through Google, and to stay only for 5 seconds or less (75 % of visitors). Such quick glances could mean that the visitors are either regular readers who are just checking if there are any updates, or alternatively that the googlers didn’t find what they were looking for. But then again, almost every 7^th person spends more than an hour on this blog – I’m impressed! Although two thirds of visitors come from Finland, it seems that I should still continue writing English now and then: the visitor map is filled with red dots from all over the world (see statistics from 100 latest entries below).

Based on the Google search phrases (again, the log for 100 last entries) I could categorize the new visitors into a couple of classes. My last post was about a Finnish, multi-ethnic (a terrible word, isn’t it?) play called Zambezi, sand so it happened that every tenth visitor through Google was looking information on that. Especially from last year my posts on migration and immigration in Finnish, and about black men and white women in English produced a lot of interesting search phrases that I rather not repeat here. Then there are my posts from last winter, during Benin months that still draw people: roughly every seventh googler wanted to know something about Villa Karo or Grand-Popo. I’m pleased that Africa in general was quite well represented: at least half of these last log entries were related somehow to Africa. It looks like often people have been looking for information on travelling: hotels, concerts, buses and other practical information. Hopefully they have also found something appealing, although I’m not even exactly focusing on this very intensive travel diary writing as most blogs on Africa seem to do.

It is also very surprising to put the phrases used by visitors in Google and notice how high in search results this page is with phrases such as “eating meals in Africa” or “bui buis”…apparently people are either very curious or worried about eating in Africa: one of the most common prejudices after "Africa being so dangerous" is that people eat barely nothing there. Or maybe I've just been writing a lot about eating and dressing...very superficial, I'm afraid! At least there are some posts focusing on history and culture, movies & music and stuff like that. I still have some unwritten ideas in my head, on what I would like to write. But it takes some time, being busy with other things (such as my thesis) here in Finland.

Thank you for visiting anyway, and welcome again!

This is Africa on the sand in Pemba, Tanzania.

Visitor search phrases, mostly in Google:

3 7.69% kassandra zambezi
2 5.13% grand popo hotellit
2 5.13% kontakti teoria
2 5.13% kaj öhrnberg
1 2.56% popossa
1 2.56% thomas sankara motorbikes
1 2.56% villa karon ensimmäiset taiteilijat
1 2.56% piraattilääkkeet
1 2.56% erik nygård viulu
1 2.56% is there communism in tanzania ?
1 2.56% mossi music
1 2.56% zambezi näytelmä
1 2.56% docpoint karpo
1 2.56% le tavern hotel pemba
1 2.56% riikka dance
1 2.56% buibui zanzibar
1 2.56% how much food does 1 person in africa eat
1 2.56% riikka fasting
1 2.56% origin of food in zanzibar
1 2.56% sansibar eija ahvo
1 2.56% tanga tanzania german club
1 2.56% zambezi fi
1 2.56% amerikan valloitus ja alkuperäisasukkaat
1 2.56% tavaran tilaus lot for lot
1 2.56% astrid thors
1 2.56% abdul sheriff bergen
1 2.56% villa karo
1 2.56% eating meals in africa
1 2.56% dar - lushoto buses
1 2.56% tapama djenepo
1 2.56% bui buis
1 2.56% niger hotellit
1 2.56% samuli roskilde
1 2.56% vodou practice

Visitors by countries:

67 69.07% Finland
10 10.31% United Kingdom
4 4.12% United States
3 3.09% Sweden
2 2.06% Australia
2 2.06% Tanzania, United Republic Of
2 2.06% Luxembourg
1 1.03% Hong Kong
1 1.03% Mexico
1 1.03% Ghana
1 1.03% Unknown
1 1.03% Canada
1 1.03% Poland
1 1.03% Netherlands