The data is there if you look just below the surface.
Today I learned docs.python.org Plausible analytics are publicly available, which is pretty cool! Right away my eye was drawn to the stats on visitors from around the world:
Notice how in this, the US of A is shown _so much_ brighter than anywhere else in the world? The 30-day visitors count is at 999k.
It’s interesting how much that country-level binning is misleading, and accordingly, how big Python actually is in Europe (and other regions) if you look at more granular numbers. It only takes 8 of the top European countries to get above the 1M visitors mark:
- 🇩🇪 Germany, 245k
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, 227k
- 🇫🇷 France, 177k
- 🇪🇸 Spain, 93k
- 🇵🇱 Poland, 80.2k
- 🇮🇹 Italy, 78.6k
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands, 74.4k
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine, 66.5k
That’s without counting Russia, some of which is very much in Europe, but I’m not sure how much. The top 7 countries are in the European Union 🇪🇺, and we arrive at 974k visitor. The addition of Ukraine takes us over the 1M mark.
What it means
For me personally, it’s interesting because 10 years ago I was delighted to land a Python gig compared to the PHP and Java jobs that were the norm in my local sphere. Now it feels like Python (or at least Django) gigs are all over the place in Europe. Just look at the latest 10 offers on Django News Jobs, majority are there.
For projects like Python / Wagtail / Django, I hope it also means a renewed focus on multilingual capabilities, and localization. It’s almost comical how bad gettext is, there’s a big need for a better baseline (MessageFormat 2, Fluent, I’m not sure). And then building beyond that baseline, more focus on support for other languages than English – translated docs, multilingual online content, etc.
In the short term – I guess that means we’ll see you all Europeans at DjangoCon Europe 2025 in April and EuroPython 2025 in July? And for Wagtailers… Wagtail Space 2025 plans TBA soon 🤫 Cue Eurodance music!