Another Community Milestone: 160 Countries!
Just noticed something new and cool when I hit our home page tonight — the uTest community is now operating in 160 countries around the globe.
What’s that mean? How many countries are there? Well, depending upon who you ask (the United Nations, the US State Department, the World Almanac, etc), there’s between 189 and 195 countries on planet earth.
So recruiting professional testers from 160 different countries and getting them to profile their testing experience, demographic information, hardware and software, is no small feat. Anyway, we just wanted to point out that the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services just got a little bigger!
Thanks to our testers from every corner of the globe for making our community so vibrant and diverse.
Go to the uTest site and visit “Get to Know Our Testers” where you will find the following as of 8 December 2009:
39 uTesters claim to have more that 10 years of experience.
A total of 373 uTesters have updated their profiles to indicate how much experience they have.
625 uTesters list Firefox as a browser.
A total of 1925 uTesters have updated their profiles to indicate what browser(s) they use.
That’s less than 10% of the total number of tester accounts shown on the home page. This appears to show that about 90% of the tester community is not active.
The numbers in my previous post were wrong.
Those are the numbers for South America, not the world.
The totals for the world community are as expected. To see those, just don’t click on the world map before you look at the graphs!