Around a quarter of the stories about Israel were comment pieces.
Following the devastating earthquake last January, Haiti was mentioned 436 times in 2010 while Chile, where 33 miners were rescued from deep below the desert, came in at 195.
Despite large scale ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan last June, Guardian journalists offered only 82 stories related to the Central Asian country.
The author of the Inside Guardian blog wrote: “So we're obsessed with our home country, captivated by the US and disproportionately preoccupied with Israel? Maybe.”
While Israel was a popular choice for the Guardian website, it could not eclipse the iPad, which was the subject of 1,252 website stories.