Yes, because the "other" quiz website has a very very high dependency on the US, but lacks users from other countries and languages, which is where JetPunk seems to thrive largely due to content.
No, adding a new featured language takes hours and hours of work with a translator to add content and translations. And none of the unfeatured languages have traffic to justify that. Some of the featured languages don't either. But also neither QM or myself have the time to add a new language.
You see, they are not true Scandinavians like the others, but have an entirely different ancestry, including a non indo-european language. Only Estonia, Hungary and the Basque people of Spain and France share this trait.
Did you notice that CatcoolH used the word 'Nordic' and not 'Scandinavian'? He/She clearly knows there's a difference, and used Nordic correctly. Finland also has a sizeable minority of Swedish speakers within the country, so it's not all non-Indo-European speakers.
We use percentages rather than absolute numbers because they the results are more comparable year by year, since absolute numbers increase most years. But the total would refer to the total number of unique people that visited JetPunk over a year.
Well, funny you should say that... Google Analytics found exactly 1 user over the year from North Korea! The only countries with 0 were Vatican City and Tuvalu.
This year there was 1 from Vatican indeed (probably someone connected to the Vatican's wifi). But still 0 from Tuvalu (the only JetPunk Country this year)
Indonesia and the Philippines shouldn't come as surprises because they are internet-savvy countries with large populations, so a significant amount of their people would definitely have come across JetPunk.
Will someone please tell me why Suomi rolls off my tongue so quickly?! I need someone from Finland to tell me where there language comes from. Inquiring minds wants to know!
Terveisiä Suomesta! I am happy to hear about it. I don't know the cause for it, but here is a short introduction to history.
Finnish is an Uralic language, closely related to Estonian, Karelian and many other small languages on the area. It is distantly related for example to Hungarian and many other smaller languages spoken in Russia, including Samoyedic languages spoken in Siberia.
The wide spread from West to East gives a hint, why it is called Uralic family. It is believed that first it was spoken on Volga region and it spread from there. Hungarians from Ugric branch have their closest language relatives Khanty and Mansi speakers in Siberia.
And they are not capable of understanding English or something? Quite a weird statement. Like you can only do a quiz in your own language.
I actually am basically never on the pages in my own language, there is more variety on the main English pages and especially more comments, the stats are mor]e interesting to compare etc (also I am so used to all the English geographical names, that switching back is hard haha)
France has almost as many users as the US and twice as much as the UK? That's very surprising! Also wouldn't have expected to see Poland in the top 4. And Russia with 1% of users - I thought their access to Western media is limited (I'm assuming VPNs won't show up as Russia in the stats here?).
Correct, I believe VPNs show as their host country not the user's country. Also, Polish is the 3rd biggest language on JetPunk so it's not too surprising to be high up
Now I'm even more confused why they don't. Hey Jetpunk, don't be jerks!
Finnish is an Uralic language, closely related to Estonian, Karelian and many other small languages on the area. It is distantly related for example to Hungarian and many other smaller languages spoken in Russia, including Samoyedic languages spoken in Siberia.
The wide spread from West to East gives a hint, why it is called Uralic family. It is believed that first it was spoken on Volga region and it spread from there. Hungarians from Ugric branch have their closest language relatives Khanty and Mansi speakers in Siberia.
I actually am basically never on the pages in my own language, there is more variety on the main English pages and especially more comments, the stats are mor]e interesting to compare etc (also I am so used to all the English geographical names, that switching back is hard haha)
Have we expanded into Tuvalu yet?
I was writing Finland at the last second and I wrote it wrong. 19/20
Sweden? No.
Norway? No.
Okay, not Scandinavia then, moving on. Dang it, Finland!