What’s popular on Google+? Find out on Journal+

Journal+, a website that gathers popular posts from Google+, was released by User Local last week. It’s a web magazine that brings together popular pictures, videos, and news articles on Google+ by various categories, or by country.

Taking a quick look at Journal+, users can get a snapshot of what’s most popular on Google+. The number of times a post has been reshared, and the amount of +1s it has received, are some of the factors that decide what is displayed on the site. There are more than 6.2 million posts on Journal+ right now, and it has already acquired more than 4.2 million users.

Main features include:

• Ranking of popular posts, pictures, videos, URLs (which are then browsable worldwide or by country)
• User rankings, according to how many times a user is added to a circle (also worldwide or by country)
• Rankings of popular shared posts and +1s for each user
• Sharing on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ itself

For example, you could browse only China posts on the Journal+ custom page for that country. Also, there’s a page just for popular G+ pictures and movies posts from across the globe.

Journal+ is a good way to get raw G+ stats too. They reveal that in terms of the number of Google+ users, Japan is placed 8th in the world – but the number of posts emanating from Japan sees it ranked 2nd in the world. It can be said that Google+ is taking off pretty well in Japan.

Journal+ shows the top ten Google+ users around the world. (Click to enlarge)

Here is the global top ten list of Google+ user numbers.

1. U.S.： 30.03%
2. India： 16.15%
3. England： 3.14%
4. Brazil： 2.98%
5. China： 2.82%
6. Indonesia： 2.82%
7. Canada： 2.57%
8. Japan： 2.07%
9. Germany： 1.95%
10. Vietnam： 1.76%

User Local is a technology development venture company located within Waseda University that provides analytics tools. Its products include User Insight which is a heat maps-based tool, and TwitTraq which provides twitter analytics.