No Longer Banned in China
Clustrmaps Asia Visitors June 2014
In March of 2007 I reported that I was getting zero hits from Mainland China and so I posted the Banned In Red China banner you see in the upper right corner of this article. In 2009 my blog began to get visitors from Mainland China again and so the banner was removed from all my articles but one.
Although China has more than 600 million Internet users (1) and India has one-third of that number (2) , I get 20 times more visitors from India than from China. I even get more visitors from tiny Hong Kong or Taiwan; see map of Asian visitors above.
Here is a chart of a few selected countries comparing Internet users with the visitor count to my blog for the past 7 weeks:
| Country | Internet Users (millions) | Visitors per 7 weeks |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 245 | 65,949 |
| UK | 52 | 7,860 |
| Germany | 67 | 5,235 |
| Canada | 27 | 4,762 |
| Australia | 15 | 3,416 |
| India | 243 | 2,888 |
| ... | ||
| Hong Kong | 5 | 147 |
| Taiwan | 17 | 145 |
| China | 618 | 141 |
At first glance one might assume that I get so few Chinese because most Hindu people speak English compared to Chinese; however, there are more Chinese who speak English than Americans who speak English.
My opinion, and I have nothing to back it up, is that India has a greater number and percentage of Muslims than the Chinese do and Hindu readers like to read my articles on Islam, especially the ones that mock Islam, Muslims and Mohammed - things that would get local Hindus killed if done in India.
Who knows, perhaps there really is a Chinese counterfeit Planck's Constant Blog written by Long-Dong Planck and featuring young, semi-clad, almost naked young Chinese girls. Hell, I'm almost ready to visit that site myself.
A tip of the turban 
to reader Izzie who asked about my "Banned in China" banner last week, prompting me to write this post to explain why I no longer sport that banner.
ENDNOTES
(1):
The Next Web, 16 Jan 2014, China’s Internet population hit 618 million at the end of 2013
If you ever needed more evidence of how China is becoming an increasingly connected country, aided not least by the growth of mobile Internet access, you just got it.
China ended last year with 618 million Internet users and 500 million mobile Internet users, according to a report published by state-affiliated research organization China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), spotted first by Tech in Asia.
This means the country tacked on 54 million new Internet users from 2012, while mobile Internet users increased year-on-year by 80 million people. The Internet penetration rate in China also climbed to 45.8 percent at the end of last year from 42.1 percent in 2012.
(2):
The Times of India, 29 Jan 2014, India to have 243 million internet users by June 2014
NEW DELHI: With more and more people accessing the web through mobile phones, the internet user base in the country is projected to touch 243 million by June 2014, a year-on-year growth of 28%.
