The results for 2025 are particularly unusual, so I expect that Google Analytics is collating / anonymousing more of its data making it more difficult to retrieve accurate stats.
Finally looked into this... It seems the city data on Google Analytics can be extremely buggy. See this article for reference. Apparently, from their testing, regional data is very very accurate (i.e. state or province) but the particular city or metro can vary greatly and often Google will just lump you into some nearby city if it can't figure it out. It seems very arbitrary, which is a shame for the accuracy of this quiz.
I think some of these automated analytics systems are also fooled by people accessing through a VPN. Especially if they are accessing the site on a corporate network.
Yes, that doesn't look right. Even using the Metropolitan area (1.65m) it would imply that 41% of that population had visited Jetpunk. Seems that Google isn't doing the quiz setter any favours...
Nice to see my home town (Newcastle upon Tyne) and my current residence (Melbourne) both making the list, and being so high up. Though I'm surprised that Newcastle is so high up!
Ashburn, in northern Virginia, is home to one of the greatest concentrations of data centers and internet exchange points in the world. Calling it a "city" is a stretch though.
Likely just bits the biggest city nearby, hence why #1 is so high up
Also, google analytics works by assigning the nearest city for the uk, which means a lot of the surrounding towns near Newcastle are lumped into it.
Edit: okay it seems you've misunderstood that the numbers appearing here are %s of JetPunk traffic, not millions of people.
Also, it appears to say "Sydney" instead of "Europe"
And yes, it was really weird. During September and November, we had a big spike from China, all from Lanzhou. It was very peculiar!