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Good weather everywhere, which automatically means that people spend less time in front of their computers and more time outside -- ideally on Frisbee pitches. That's good, although it leads to stagnating visitors and page views (this good-weather-regression is true for any big website by the way). In the following ffindr's monthly visitors check:

May 2009 attracted 12,750 visitors (-1,250 compared to the previous month) from 109 countries (-11) accessing precisely 40,001 page views (-2,500).

All quiet in the top ten visitor ranking by country. Only Italy dropped three positions, definitely because Italians enjoy the good weather even more. Interesting to see that Frisbee-nation Australia is finally approaching the top ten with a current share of 1.44% on position 14.

1. United States 22.46% (1. with 26.09% in April)
2. Germany 14.36% (2. with 12.43%)
3. France 10.30% (3. with 9.92%)
4. United Kingdom 8.83% (4. with 9.53%)
5. Canada 6.48% (5. with 4.86%)
6. Switzerland 4.00% (7. with 3.19%)
7. Spain 3.08% (9. with 2.87%)
8. Belgium 3.08% (8. with 3.12%)
9. Italy 2.43% (6. with 4.00%)
10. Austria 2.18% (10. with 1.84%)

Australification also shows its effect in the city top ten, with newcomer Melbourne on tenth place. London continues to close the once huge gap to long-time leader Paris, whereas Warsaw (now 14.) and Seattle (now 34.) dropped out of the top ten.

1. Paris 3.80% (1. with 3.88% in April)
2. London 3.53% (2. with 3.39%)
3. Dublin 1.85% (3. with 1.34%)
4. Zurich 1.68% (6. with 1.09%)
5. Berlin 1.58% (4. with 1.10%)
6. Vienna 1.36% (8. with 1.07%)
7. New York 1.26% (5. with 1.10%)
8. Munich 0.87% (7. with 1.07%)
9. Madrid 0.86% (12. with 0.77%)
10. Melbourne 0.83% (38. with 0.41%)

Finally -- to continue the recently started habit of monthly statistics reviews -- a look at the most visited tournaments on ffindr:

1. White Mountain Open 2009 (297 views)
2. 20th Talampaya Coed & Open Challenge 268 views
3. Bibione 2009 (228 views)
4. Wonderful Copenhagen Ultimate 2009 (220 views)
5. eXtended European Ultimate Championship Final 2009 (159 views)
6. G Spot 2009 (177 views)
7. Whose Baby 2009 (151 views)
8. Tom's Tourney 2000 (131 views)
9. Swiss Championships 2009 Round 1 (130 views)
10. WD40 Spring Lube 2009 (128 views)

The soon-to-be-announced Paris Summer League will be the first event to use ffindr's online registration. Work on the latter is quite a brainteaser, nevertheless I hope (hope just because what's true for visitors is also true for developers: better weather automatically means less time for development) to have a working solution within 10 days.