Guess Where They're Reading Lawfare!

Over the past month, according to data from Google Analytics, Lawfare's readership has hailed overwhelmingly--as always--from the United States (nearly 86 percent of visitors). Readers from the United Kingdom clock in second (about 2.4 percent of our visitors). And coming in a surprising third are visitors from . . . (drum roll, please) . . . Pakistan! That's not a typo. Over the past 30 days, we've had about 750 visitors from Pakistan (about 1.8 percent of our readership). This may not sound like much, but it beats out Canada (686 visitors), Australia (267 visitors), and the Netherlands (233 visitors)--not to mention every other country in the world. The explanation, alas, does not appear to be a surge of interest in American national security law among the restive population of our main South Asian frienemy. Rather, it seems to be that a lot of people in Pakistan visited this single post--about where the swag is made that gets sold in the gift-ship of a certain three-letter agency that doesn't acknowledge conducting drone strikes in a certain South Asian country. More than 700 of the visitors visited this one post. More than 96 percent of these readers were new visitors to the site, and they spent on average a whopping 27 seconds on Lawfare. Bottom line: Don't hold your breath for Lawfare's new Urdu edition. I fully expect Canada to be back in third place next month.