I badly wanted to know who was reading my blog, and being completely technologically inept, I could not figure out how one would go about figuring such a thing. I found an HTML code that logged, instead, the number of visits on a global map. This is a tool made for people whose blogs receive A LOT of traffic, and I figured mine probably had two or four regular readers, most of whom would share some of my chromosomes. At any rate, this is not a code made for blogs like mine, but I did it anyway.
Well! Since October 19, apparently, I have received the following number of visits, broken down by country:
|
United States (US) | 47 |
Denmark (DK) | 31 |
Czech Republic (CZ) | 22 |
India (IN) | 2 |
Finland (FI) | 2 |
Iceland (IS) | 1 |
Canada (CA) | 1 |
Australia (AU) | 1 |
Sweden (SE)
| 1 |
This completely baffles me. You can't
really tell where, geographically, these visitors are from, except for some red dots on a very vague map, but it looks like I might have one or two readers in Prague and Los Angeles, and a healthy few in Chicago and Denmark. That makes sense. I do have friends in Prague and a cousin in LA, and family in Chicago and hell, a current LIFE in Denmark. Even the lone Swedish visitor could make sense, given that my mom and I visited Malmo (just over the Oresund Bridge) this past weekend in Sweden.
But Finland? Australia? CANADA? I'm pretty sure I don't know anyone there. And they don't know me, judging by their lack of repeat visits. ALAS. This blog is not huge. I am not destined to become the next
Diablo Cody (though I will never give up hope). But it is a lot bigger than I thought. It even comes up when I Google myself.
You should use Google Analytics :-) It's easy and super-handy for looking up statistics like that. It's fascinating seeing where people come from.
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