Site was started in French language, but it is internet, so the _where_ it is is not important (it is still on a server in France actually).
As the English translation was added before it really started to grow, it did not live so much as a "French site".

It looks like the US states list is in about the same order as in a state population list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_population

By the way, I am surprised US is the top percent of visitors seeing as though the site started in Europe (France or Belgium if I'm not mistaken?)

Oh yeah, Ford Guy, does California's pop. estimate include the millions of illegal aliens living there?

Google Analytics gives that info.
The IP addresses (which each machine connected to internet has) are usually linked to a country or even a region, but this is not very reliable.
For example, with my IP address the info that I am in Belgium is sure, but I only get sometimes Brussels (where I am), in lots of cases it gives me either the region of my ISP or just another Belgian city.
I suppose that in USA the split in states is quite reliable (could be compared to EU-countries), as Google offers that additional level (in other countries they directly give city info rather than a subdivision of the country).

How would you know what state visitors are from?

Being the most populated state in the Union with nearly 38,000,000 people...oh yeah, we come out on top

It would be interesting to compare these numbers with the number of people living in these states.
e.g. I suppose that Delaware is rather small, and I am not surprised that California is at the top of the list

Ufff, NC is the twelfth state in U.S. with total visits (!) I knew putting a computer in every room of the house was a bad idea, I’m addicted now ...

countries: (% of visitors)

United States 34,57
United Kingdom 7,95
France 6,58
Germany 5,12
Canada 4,94
Italy 2,74
Netherlands 2,62
Poland 2,61
Spain 2,47
Australia 2,28
Sweden 1,95
Belgium 1,92
Hungary 1,44
Finland 1,43
Norway 1,1
Czech Republic 0,95
Romania 0,84
Switzerland 0,83
Portugal 0,82
Brazil 0,82
Turkey 0,79
Denmark 0,76
Mexico 0,68
Japan 0,67
Russia 0,64
Bulgaria 0,59
Chile 0,56
Austria 0,55
New Zealand 0,55
Greece 0,55
Slovakia 0,51
Argentina 0,5

others are < 0,5%


detail for USA:

California 14,61
New York 7,93
Texas 6,14
Florida 5,14
Illinois 4,53
Pennsylvania 3,66
Virginia 3,39
Washington 3,25
New Jersey 3,04
Ohio 3,03
Michigan 2,98
North Carolina 2,96
Massachusetts 2,88
Georgia 2,74
Minnesota 2,2
(not set) 2,11
Arizona 2,05
Oregon 1,81
Colorado 1,77
Wisconsin 1,76
Maryland 1,75
Missouri 1,63
Tennessee 1,61
Indiana 1,31
Connecticut 1,28
Kansas 1
Alabama 0,97
South Carolina 0,9
Oklahoma 0,88
Kentucky 0,83
Iowa 0,81
Nevada 0,79
Louisiana 0,7
Utah 0,69
District of Columbia 0,66
New Hampshire 0,57
Nebraska 0,56
Maine 0,52
Arkansas 0,51
Idaho 0,49
New Mexico 0,49
Mississippi 0,46
Hawaii 0,37
Rhode Island 0,37
West Virginia 0,33
Montana 0,27
South Dakota 0,23
Wyoming 0,22
North Dakota 0,21
Vermont 0,21
Alaska 0,2
Delaware 0,18

You may have noticed that since few weeks the site makes a request to google-analytics server at the end of each page (well, you see it only if you check messages in statusbar).
I registered the site there to have some more reliable stats than what I add through the logs of the server, since that one was counting thumbnails as pages because they are provided through a php page.
Now these stats are for pages only, so real visits on the site.

Anyway, here are few figures for April:
avg 8300 visits/day (259 000 visits)
136 276 unique visitors
2 300 000 page views

browsers:
IE = 63%
Firefox = 30%
Safari = 4%

incoming traffic:
13,83% direct (i.e. bookmarks or typed url)
23,68% referring sites
62,48% search engines