Language data

Now that we have an initial set of data (sure, it's less than a week,
but it's something), here is some statistics on language settings in our
visitors browsers (I've added all the different Spanish into one group etc):

English 57.1%
German 5.8%
Spanish 5.3%
Brazilian-Portuguese 5.2%
Japanese 4.2%
French 3.9%
Polish 3.0%

nobody else breaks over 3%, but there are a total of 107 different
language combinations present.

From this, I read that it's correct to say that English only represents
a little over half our browsers primary language. But it's also true
that adding translations will not buy us much more *per translation*.
But if we do get both German and French (per discussions in the past
week), that would buy us almost 10%.

Now, looking at geographical distribution, it's quite different:
United States 21.5%
Germany 7.0%
Brazil 6.5%
Japan 4.6%
Poland 4.1%
France 4.0%
United Kingdom 4.0%

Adding up English speaking countries in the top list (US, UK, Canada and
Australia), we have about 30%. Which clearly shows that a lot of people
outside English speaking countries have their browsers set for English
as their primary choice - just like me ;-)

Not particularly surprising, looking at archives.postgresql.org shows
more English browsers - about 68.5%. Noticeable other changes are that
German is now only 3.6%, Brazilian Portuguese down to 2% but Spanish is
up to 10.3%.

Regardless of this, given that two people have expressed interest in
translating what's there now, I'll make sure that the translation
continues to work as good or bad as it previously had. Then we can
improve on that in the future, once we see actual needs from actual
translators.

//Magnus