Diane asked, so I decided to process our server logs to find out how many times our game for children who are blind and visually impaired, Hark the Sound, has been downloaded and, if possible, the country that requested it.

The quick summary is that Hark the Sound has been downloaded by 1537 unique IP addresses, we have mailed 169 CDs to the US and 9 to other countries, and we have given away over 500 at workshops. We encourage people to make their own copies so we must be approaching 3000 installed versions in the field.

Identifying the geographic location associated with an IP address is a shaky proposition but I decided to try anyway. I used the database at Hostip.info to extract the following stats.

Hark has been downloaded by IP addresses in 70 countries and 46 US States. The countries I can identify include:

A total of 421 to these countries:

Afghanistan: 1 Argentina: 1 Australia: 68 + 3 mailed Austria: 2 Belgium: 2 Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 Brazil: 10 Canada: 69 + 3 mailed Chile: 2 China: 5 Colombia: 1 Croatia: 4 Cuba: 1 Cyprus: 2 Czech Republic: 2 Denmark: 6 Dominican Republic: 1 Egypt: 4 El Salvador: 1 Estonia: 1 European Union: 3 Finland: 4 France: 5 Germany: 17 Greece: 2 Hong Kong: 2 Hungary: 4 India: 12 + 1 mailed Indonesia: 1 Ireland: 3 Israel: 3 Italy: 7 Japan: 5 Jordan: 1 Korea: 3 Kuwait: 3 Latvia: 1 Lithuania: 1 Malaysia: 1 Mexico: 4 Moldova: 1 Morocco: 3 Myanmar: 1 Netherlands: 4 New Zealand: 16 Nigeria: 1 mailed Norway: 5 Pakistan: 4 Philippines: 2 Poland: 2 Portugal: 8 Romania: 1 Russian Federation: 1 Singapore: 2 Slovenia: 1 South Africa: 5 Spain: 5 Sri Lanka: 1 Sweden: 6 Switzerland: 2 Taiwan: 3 Thailand: 4 Turkey: 1 Ukraine: 1 Turkey: 6 Ukraine: 1 United Arab Emirates: 5 United Kingdom: 60 + 1 mailed United States: 1046 Uruguay: 1 Uzbekistan: 1 Viet Nam: 1

The 1046 for the US break down into 537 whose state I couldn't identify (wasn't in the database) and 509 in the following 46 states:

AL 1 mailed AR 2 AZ 17 + 8 mailed CA 68 + 7 mailed CO 5 + 8 mailed CT 5 + 1 mailed DE 4 + 3 mailed FL 10 + 7 mailed GA 22 + 2 mailed HI 1 IA 13 + 2 mailed ID 2 IL 22 + 3 mailed IN 4 + 6 mailed KS 7 KY 5 + 4 mailed LA 2 + 1 mailed MA 11 MD 7 ME 1 + 1 mailed MI 15 + 11 mailed MN 8 + 4 mailed MO 9 MS 1 MT 3 + 1 mailed NC 76 + 34 mailed ND 1 + 4 mailed NE 1 NH 1 + 1 mailed NJ 4 + 2 mailed NM 10 NV 3 NY 25 + 5 mailed OH 13 + 2 mailed OK 1 OR 5 + 5 mailed PA 21 + 1 mailed RI 1 mailed SC 10 + 4 mailed SD 1 TN 3 + 3 mailed TX 41 + 18 mailed UT 6 VA 18 + 1 mailed VT 1 mailed WA 12 + 3 mailed WI 9 + 10 mailed WV 4 + 2 mailed

In addition there were 70 for which I couldn't identify even the country.

Further, we have given away over 500 CDs at local workshops.

I also extracted the downloads by month shown as year, month followed by the number since Hark was introduced in November of 2003.

2003, 11 28 2003, 12 11 2004, 1 41 2004, 2 85 2004, 3 59 2004, 4 89 2004, 5 60 2004, 6 26 2004, 7 23 2004, 8 24 2004, 9 45 2004, 10 35 2004, 11 25 2004, 12 11 2005, 1 58 2005, 2 17 2005, 3 32 2005, 4 29 2005, 5 28 2005, 6 26 2005, 7 18 2005, 8 26 2005, 9 33 2005, 10 36 2005, 11 28 2005, 12 23 2006, 1 28 2006, 2 31 2006, 3 34 2006, 4 29 2006, 5 48 2006, 6 33 2006, 7 53 2006, 8 29 2006, 9 37 2006, 10 42 2006, 11 59 2006, 12 31 2007, 1 40 2007, 2 70 2007, 3 50 2007, 4 19