If you look at the sidebar "New and Popular" and switch the language to "pl" (Polish), you'll see we do very well for takes from Poland. This started around April 2019 and exploded again in December. Since this averages over 2019 as a whole, Poland is actually underrepresented here!
Many Polish people have moved to UK, 695,000 are now living in UK. So a growing link between UK and Poland and the English Language. People in Poland are corresponding with UK and vice-versa and programmes such as Jetpunk become known.
English has official status in India and the Philippines and virtually everyone in both countries speaks it. Basically everyone in Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland speaks English, too, as well as most people in Germany, Finland, and France.
I can tell you no more than 6-7% of Indians are good in English. Most of the people can read and understand English but their spoken and written English is a mess.
Actually I take that back. Having though about it I can remember several people I met in India who didn't seem to speak even a word of English. Even if many of the people I met could communicate just fine. So maybe it's at the bottom of the list of those countries I mentioned. Still, English does have official status there. And, as Malbaby pointed out, even if it was only 15% of the population that's still a huge number of people.
In India, many people can speak English fluently. India also has the most English speaker after US. I've seen that the education system is turning more English Centric these days. I agree with you Kal.
Most people in France?? They do a good job of hiding it. In my experience English-speaking there is almost at the same level as French-speaking in England. Not quite, but nearly (except in the touristy areas, perhaps).
When I was in France I felt like most of the people I interacted with understood and could speak English just fine but they chose not to because they thought everyone should be speaking French.
^ When I was in France -- the eastern part, in an area with basically no tourists -- I definitely got the sense that not many people knew English. And I was teaching it.
I lived in India for two years. There’s very much a class divide when it comes to speaking English. Educated and professional people usually speak it fluently, but the majority know only a few words or not at all.
kitsims: I'm sure this is partially true. But on the other hand... when I worked in Saudi Arabia for six years, where I taught English alongside many other teachers from Arabic-speaking countries such as Egypt and Syria, and also worked alongside many poor and uneducated contract workers from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh who were there to drive cars, sweep floors, and clean toilets, I found that the floor sweepers often spoke better English than the Arab English teachers.
If I have nothing relevant, interesting, helpful, constructive, necessary, or at least humorous to add, then I will say nothing. If you'd like to see examples of this, look on any thread of comments on any quiz on the site. You've spent the last 2 years posting personal attacks against me all over the site, often, like here, with zero substance behind them, adding nothing to the conversation. I've spent 10 years on this site, and over that span of time I know I have commented a lot, but I never spent years leaving comments like that. Anyway I hope you'll follow the example now that I've shown you as requested. But I can't say I feel optimistic.
It really depends which english you speak, I speak Britsh English where some people say it originates from when it doesn't, it originates from French, German, ect.
The basketball quizzes are featured because lots of people take them. The basketball quizzes have always done well, despite not always being so numerous or featured, whereas cricket quizzes have never done so well.
In large part this is likely due to the previous dominance of USA on the site. I seem to recall that they used to account for up to 60% of the traffic, not the measly 35% here, which would suggest that, since NBA is huge in america, and cricket is a non-starter, that NBA would be more popular to take quizzes on.
In addition, of all US sports leagues, the NBA has perhaps the largest international audience. Baseball appeals to specific nations as does ice hockey whereas American football only garners an audience for one game -- mainly for the commercials and half time show. Cricket on the other hand has a limited appeal outside a few remnants of the British Empire.
I get to new quizzes mainly by pressing the "random quiz" button. If there are lots of one kind of quiz and few of another, I'm naturally going to end up doing more of the first kind, and perhaps never even realise the other kind exists. I do occasionally search, but inevitably the quizzes I enjoy the most are the ones I just happen upon.
I got leveled up to level 15 in this quiz so this is my first comment in jetpunk lol - but what's more surprising to me is having to answer them all correctly with 42 seconds left.
How about one based on actual usage (quiz takes per country). I'd be curious to know (as I suspect) if that would skew more heavily toward the top end of this list.
This is hard to measure, since we don't know which takes are attributed to which country. The best we can do is pageviews, but even then the pages people view don't necessarily correlate with how many quizzes they take.
The issue is all the analytics stuff is done on Google Analytics, and all the takes and quiz stats are done internally on JetPunk. They're different systems that don't interact with each other.
Fun fact! As of April 2020, due to national lockdowns, despite most other countries being largely unchanged in their % of traffic, the top two positions have swapped! See the full blog about it here: How Coronavirus Has Changed JetPunk's Demographics
Very interesting quiz! I managed to get 20 of them, but that was admittedly largely luck. I cherry picked the countries I thought would be likely and then just went through Europe. I must say that the Philippines came as a real surprise though, hadn't expected to see them on there, let alone so high! Neat to see that JetPunk quizzes are being taken outside of Anglophone and European nations though.
I can't do that easily, but what I can do (I think) is see what countries are visiting the "Create / Edit Quiz" page. This would skew to people who make a lot of quizzes, but I believe that's what you're looking for. I'll do 2019 so it's comparable to the quiz.
2019 data, /create-quiz
28.7%
United States
17.4%
Poland
13.7%
France
13.0%
United Kingdom
5.7%
Canada
Very interesting results! So it seems us Brits are lacking in our creative flair, and Poles are exceeding in their usage. I guess this makes sense given we had a large influx of Polish users in 2019, and many of them would've found a lack of quizzes available, so decided to make their own. I guess the high rank of France could relate similarly.
Others after were Germany, Australia, Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway!
I think probably the Poles and Frenchies are getting a boost here because they can just copy existing quizzes and then translate them? Brits can't really do that... unless they just want to change "color" to "colour" et cetera.
Although you may think that, looking at analytics, at least 95% of Poles never visit an English quiz. They may end up making something similar to an existing quiz, but this is simply because so many topics already exist in English, rather than them being translations. The same is true for the French to some degree, but not quite as extreme.
Your point still stands though, since Brits can't make quizzes which "don't exist in their language" since that language is already flooded with quizzes.
I have now updated this quiz for 2020 data, note that some weird traffic trends this year meant that unique users (as presented here) doesn't necessarily represent page views. For example, despite the rise in traffic from the UK, some of this was simply single-view users that didn't venture beyond one page.
But shouldnt the 11,04% be counted towards the continents not mentioned yet because it doesnt make sense that the 11,04% is also mostly europe when europe already has that 40+%
Since this is predominantly an English site now, please can we start using English rather than the crass American version that puts a Z where there should be an S and drops all the U's? ;)
Are there really more Jetpunk users from the United Kingdom than the United States? That is mind-blowing! I always thought that us Brits come second place behind the United States lol.
I'm very surprised the Philippines is above Brazil. I mean, I feel like I've encountered quite a few Brazilians on this site, but I can't ever recall finding a Filipino. Don't think I know of anyone from Ireland either.
Ok, well Brazil is way higher than the Philippines now. Also, after seeing the insanely high average on Jiaozira's "Provinces of the Philippines" quiz, I no longer doubt that JetPunk has a large (or at least sizeable) population of Filipinos. I'm just a bit surprised I haven't see many comments/quizzes from these Filipino users.
Brazilians are very chatty on the internet. We comment on everything and there is a culture of "lets try to take over this website" and I'm not even joking hahaha
Serbia has less than 0.1% of the world population, yet Serbs make more than 0.5% of jetpunk users. At last, one statistical category that makes me proud...
Surprised there are no Chinese users despite Chinese people being well-educated, there being a high internet usage rate in China and there being a lot of people
Maybe it was due to diversion between China and Taiwan?
It's not banned in China, I think it's just the fact that China tends to have its own websites that are exclusive from the Western internet. Also, from what I know, the proportion of the Chinese population that can speak English is pretty low. I wouldn't be surprised if China had its own trivia/quiz websites though.
Lots of comments saying they are surprised Philippines got on the list. I am surprised more at those comments. I totally expect Philippines to be there.
Technically I count as Chinese, since I was born in China. Have lived in USA for longer, making me a US citizen. Which means US passport. I don't know if I count as USA or China. Made the quiz USA or China is you go to my profile. Only level 29, *sad*😭...... 完蛋了。I'm in top 10000 rank, which sound like I'm so at the back. Goal: Get into top 200, and make quizzes without others already having that idea...
Yea of course, but i mean that it's the only country in this list to not have a section dedicated to the most-spoken language of the country, excepting India (which is 15 times bigger in terms of population) ^^
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.
Also NZ, Australia, UK, France - perhaps more rugby quizzes should be featured as well!
https://www.jetpunk.com/search?term=cricket&language=english
Compare this to NBA basketball:
https://www.jetpunk.com/search?term=nba&language=english
In large part this is likely due to the previous dominance of USA on the site. I seem to recall that they used to account for up to 60% of the traffic, not the measly 35% here, which would suggest that, since NBA is huge in america, and cricket is a non-starter, that NBA would be more popular to take quizzes on.
The issue is all the analytics stuff is done on Google Analytics, and all the takes and quiz stats are done internally on JetPunk. They're different systems that don't interact with each other.
If SA was there, Egypt would be there too.
It would also be fun to see how many 'ranked' members come from which countries, so that we can see who's putting the most hours into JetPunk :)
Very interesting results! So it seems us Brits are lacking in our creative flair, and Poles are exceeding in their usage. I guess this makes sense given we had a large influx of Polish users in 2019, and many of them would've found a lack of quizzes available, so decided to make their own. I guess the high rank of France could relate similarly.
Others after were Germany, Australia, Netherlands, New Zealand and Norway!
Your point still stands though, since Brits can't make quizzes which "don't exist in their language" since that language is already flooded with quizzes.
I feel lonely.
Todos somos biscoito31,94% America,
5,37% Oceania
5,02% Asia
53.73% Europe
29.00% North America
7.29% Asia
4.27% South America
4.18% Oceania
1.02% Africa
No one wanted to learn the British version.
The primary fixes were:
* call the letter Z, zee instead of zed and use it more often
* remove the unnecessary "u" in words like color
* disuse the French spelling of words like centre
Unluckilly, it wasn't the same with JetPunk
Surprised there are no Chinese users despite Chinese people being well-educated, there being a high internet usage rate in China and there being a lot of people
Maybe it was due to diversion between China and Taiwan?
oh f*ck i feel ashamed by my brazilian community...As this country is not that populated, and doesn't have a turkish section on JP
Bravo les amis !
Now I'm even more confused why they don't. Hey Jetpunk, don't be jerks!