It was a random check. I wanted to know how popular www.laughangeles.com (the website we used before transferring to www.laughteryogaamerica.com)  had become on a global scale. We had been for several years the most popular Laughter Yoga website in North America, ranking with industry watchdog www.alexa.com on 10/31/10 as the 78,145 most popular website in the USA (in comparison the official Laughter Yoga website www.laughteryoga.org ranked 156,372 on that smale scale, in that same great country of 300+ million people on the same day).

Here is the question I asked big brother: where did the people who visited www.laughangeles.com in the past 3 months come from?

The answer both surprised and inspired me greatly. Our fan club is spread over 141 countries and 16 territories on 6 continents! Here is the list:

Countries

Territories

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Albania
  3. Algeria
  4. Angola
  5. Antigua and Barbuda
  6. Argentina
  7. Armenia
  8. Australia
  9. Austria
  10. Bahrain
  11. Bangladesh
  12. Barbados
  13. Belarus
  14. Belgium
  15. Belize
  16. Bhutan
  17. Bolivia
  18. Botswana
  19. Brazil
  20. Bulgaria
  21. Cambodia
  22. Canada
  23. Chile
  24. China
  25. Colombia
  26. Costa Rica
  27. Croatia
  28. Cyprus
  29. Czech Republic
  30. Denmark
  31. Djibouti
  32. Dominican Republic
  33. Ecuador
  34. Egypt
  35. El Salvador
  36. Estonia
  37. Ethiopia
  38. Fiji
  39. Finland
  40. France
  41. Georgia
  42. Germany
  43. Ghana
  44. Greece
  45. Guatemala
  46. Haiti
  47. Honduras
  48. Hungary
  49. Iceland
  50. India
  51. Indonesia
  52. Iran
  53. Ireland
  54. Israel
  55. Italy
  56. Jamaica
  57. Japan
  58. Jordan
  59. Kazakhstan
  60. Kenya
  61. Kuwait
  62. Kyrgyzstan
  63. Latvia
  64. Lebanon
  65. Libya
  66. Lithuania
  67. Luxembourg
  68. Macedonia
  69. Malaysia
  70. Maldives
  71. Mali
  72. Malta
  73. Mauritius
  74. Mexico
  75. Moldova
  76. Monaco
  77. Mongolia
  78. Morocco
  79. Namibia
  80. Nepal
  81. Netherlands
  82. New Zealand
  83. Nicaragua
  84. Nigeria
  85. Norway
  86. Oman
  87. Pakistan
  88. Panama
  89. Papua New Guinea
  90. Paraguay
  91. Peru
  92. Philippines
  93. Poland
  94. Portugal
  95. Qatar
  96. Romania
  97. Rwanda
  98. Saudi Arabia
  99. Senegal
  100. Seychelles
  101. Singapore
  102. Slovenia
  103. South Africa
  104. Spain
  105. Sri Lanka
  106. Sudan
  107. Suriname
  108. Sweden
  109. Switzerland
  110. Syria
  111. Taiwan
  112. Tanzania
  113. Thailand
  114. Trinidad and Tobago
  115. Tunisia
  116. Turkey
  117. Uganda
  118. Ukraine
  119. United Arab Emirates
  120. United States of America
  121. Uruguay
  122. Uzbekistan
  123. Vanuatu
  124. Venezuela
  125. Vietnam
  126. Yemen
  127. Zambia
  128. Zimbabwe
  129. Azerbaijan
  130. Bosnia and Herzegovina
  131. Brunei
  132. Cote d’Ivoire
  133. Korea, South
  134. Russia
  135. Saint Kitts and Nevis
  136. Samoa
  137. Slovakia
  138. Tajikistan
  139. United Kingdom
  140. Serbia
  141. Myanmar (Burma)
  1. Bahamas
  2. Bermuda
  3. Cayman Islands
  4. Faroe Islands
  5. Gibraltar
  6. Guadeloupe (French)
  7. Guam (USA)
  8. Hong Kong
  9. Jersey
  10. Macau
  11. Netherlands Antilles
  12. Norfolk Island
  13. Northern Mariana Islands
  14. Palestinian Territories
  15. Puerto Rico
  16. Virgin Islands (USA)

Now: there are exactly precisely 195 countries on Earth as of 10/31/2010. That gave us then a current world coverage of 72.3%! Not bad.

Dare consider that ideas precede action. To say that there are Laughter Clubs in each one of these locations is a little far fetched at this point in time, and I choose to think that this time is not that far away!

Here is a list of the countries that had not “visited” us in the previous 3 months.

No Visitors From…

  1. Andorra
  2. Benin
  3. Burkina Faso
  4. Burundi
  5. Cameroon
  6. Cape Verde
  7. Central African Republic
  8. Chad
  9. Comoros
  10. Congo, Democratic Republic of the
  11. Congo, Republic of the
  12. Cuba
  13. Dominica
  14. East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  15. Equatorial Guinea
  16. Eritrea
  17. Gabon
  18. Grenada
  19. Guinea
  20. Guinea-Bissau
  21. Guyana
  22. Iraq
  23. Kiribati
  24. Korea, North
  25. Kosovo
  26. Laos
  27. Lesotho
  28. Liberia
  29. Liechtenstein
  30. Madagascar
  31. Malawi
  32. Marshall Islands
  33. Mauritania
  34. Micronesia, Federated States of
  35. Montenegro
  36. Mozambique
  37. Nauru
  38. Niger
  39. Palau
  40. Saint Lucia
  41. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  42. San Marino
  43. Sao Tome and Principe
  44. Sierra Leone
  45. Solomon Islands
  46. Somalia
  47. Swaziland
  48. The Bahamas
  49. The Gambia
  50. Togo
  51. Tonga
  52. Turkmenistan
  53. Tuvalu
  54. Vatican City

What this means:

1. er… we’re good at what we do?

2. Laughter Yoga is getting more and more popular. It’s a growth that will prove hard to stop.