Where are you?
I’m going to try this thing I found (thanks to Jessica‘s link to cool Google maps). Apparently it will tell me where, geographically, the visitors to my site are located.
Um…apparently the last 100 visitors to my site have been in Iowa City. That doesn’t quite make sense. Either that thing is wrong, or I don’t have nearly the geographic penetration I thought I did. Hm. Oh, wait, I get it. It doesn’t actually search my site stats; you have to click the button for it to figure out where you are based on your IP. That’s not quite as cool as I thought. Really all it’s doing is saving me the trouble of looking up where IP addresses are coming from, which I already do when something seems fishy.
Update: Oooh! This is getting more exciting now that people are clicking on the link. Thanks for playing, guys! I now have an Iowa City, a Cedar Rapids, a Des Moines, and a Utah (gotta be Lettie, right?). This is a good Friday activity. Feel free to copy the code and put it on your own site; I’ll do my best to go to yours and add to your Google maps geo cred.
Sweet! I’m always on the lookout for new ways to confirm that my blog is read only by me. This fits the bill nicely.
I would be your Utah visitor…almost everyday. Sometimes more than once a day. 🙂
I’d be happy to click your map link, map (WHOA! a map for map. Blow my mind why don’t you), but it’s not going to do you any good since I would just be adding to the Iowa City visitors.
And hi, Gary from UNI. And hi, Lettie. Thanks for visiting. Hey Lettie, please please please post a lot of pictures when your baby is born. I can’t wait to see him.
Hi, I bet your wondering who the Georgian is, well it’s me. I wound up on your page one day through Lisa’s page. You had a recipe posted for Burritos and I made it and it was tasty. You also won me over by our mutual love of wide rice noodles.
I will post a pic. There’s another way you can track visitors too and it tells you about how long they visit. It’s sitemeter.com I don’t remember how to set it up, but you’re a computer whiz…
Did show my visiting all the way from suburban hell, outside Washington DC?
Yes indeed, Dot (at least there were a few hits from the DC area, so I think so). The most surprising were the hits from the Middle East/Central Asia. I had one from Iran, one from Oman, one from United Arab Emirates, and two from India.
I had no idea!
Any visitors from moline IL would be me. Unless they are creepy, then they are not me.
and i forgot to put my link in, DUH.
Hi from Utah! I wonder if I know Lettie…
Have you ever tried Frappr? It’s pretty fun too.
Hi! 🙂 I actually (once upon a time, recently) I clicked on your link at the Hollywood Rag! I was laughing at your comment (I liked it/agreed with it) and thought I would see who you were — and here we are! I just wanted to say that your blog is so cute and funny! Take care & Merry Christmas! (Awesome Christmas tree, by the way!) Smiles, Amers
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