Just logged in to Google Analytics today to find that Weebly is used in exactly 200 countries! Pretty exciting. Our top countries are:

1. United States (55.65%)
2. United Kingdom (8.06%)
3. Canada (4.55%)
4. India (3.22%)
5. Australia (2.44%)
6. Brazil (1.81%)
7. Philippines (1.74%)
8. France (1.21%)
9. Netherlands (1.12%)
10. Sweden (0.99%)

One interesting observation: English speaking countries make up 70.7% of Weebly's user base. (Time to internationalize?)

Also interesting to compare against Alexa's estimates of our traffic origin:

United States (40.6%)
India (8.7%)
United Kingdom (5.9%)
Canada (4.7%)
Australia (2.4%)
Germany (2.3%)
Singapore (2.0%)
Italy (1.7%)
Brazil (1.6%)
Indonesia (1.4%)

Looking at the errors in these estimates, it looks like Alexa is heavily biased to non-US visitors, and biased towards Indian visitors.

What does your global usage look like?

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