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>But, even 200 sites per country is enough for a proper random sample

Yes, but my concern is that they may only have a handful of sites (or none at all) for a long tail of smaller countries.

>Even more so when you consider that a site is not a single observation, but reports data about all the users visiting it.

True, so it depends on whether or not users of popular international sites from a particular country are representative of all users from that country.



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