The goal of RePEc is to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics, and in particular to make it more accessible to those who do not have the resources of large and rich institutions. Here, I analyze traffic on IDEAS, the most popular of the RePEc services, since its move to the Economic Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
IDEAS is in English, but of course a substantial share of the material in RePEc is in other languages. Looking at the browser settings of those visiting IDEAS, 65% of visitors have the language set on English, 6% Spanish, 5% German and Chinese, 4% French. Browser settings can reveal more about the users. Browser chares are 37% for Internet Explorer, 29% for Firefox, 23% for Chrome, 8% Safari and 2% Opera. 85% of visitors use Windows, 10% some Mac OS, 2% some mobile OS and 1.2% Linux.
What is more interesting to us is where IDEAS visitors come from. Despite substantial ISP concentration is some large countries, no single ISP accounts for more than 1.8% of visitors. By country, the visitor ranking is:
- 22% United States
- 8.2% United Kingdom
- 5.3% India
- 4.9% Germany
- 3.6% China
- 3.5% Canada
- 3.2% France
- 2.8% Italy
- 2.7% Australia
- 1.9% Philippines
- 1.8% Netherlands
- 1.8% Spain
- 1.5% Japan
- 1.5% Malaysia
- 1.5% Brazil
- 1.3% Colombia
- 1.2% Pakistan
- 1.2% Switzerland
- 1.2% Turkey
- 1.2% Mexico
- 1.0% Belgium
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