FlickFilosopher all over the worldI’ve been playing around with the traffic-monitoring service SiteMeter, using it to track traffic here and attempt to figure out what I’m doing right, what I’m doing wrong, and see if maybe I can boost traffic somehow. One of the neat features it offers is a visual representation of where on the planet site visitors are coming from. Which is extremely cool:
The red dot is the most recent visitor as of the moment this image was created (which was just a few minutes ago), the green dots are the 10 most recent visitors before that, and the white dots are the 500 visitors before them. With the level of traffic here, that’s about the last two hours worth of traffic. (That’s traffic as SiteMeter is measuring it, which doesn’t agree with the numbers either Google Analytics or my Web host come up with. Which is a good reason to have more than one way to measure traffic at work.) I’ve often wondered whether anybody at Antarctica is reading FlickFilosopher, but there don’t seem to be dedicated IP addresses for the continent. If you’re reading this down there on the ice, though, drop a comment here to let me know. That would be cool in more ways than one. Just thought this’d be neat to share. support
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posted by Ken (Thu Feb 19 09, 2:41PM)
If I'm reading this correctly, you've got quite an audience in Greenland!
posted by Ryan H (Thu Feb 19 09, 3:31PM)
Heh, I know which dot is mine!
posted by Jurgan (Thu Feb 19 09, 3:55PM)
Hmm, seems you've got a better following in the South then I might have expected. Just goes to show that we're not all rednecks and religious nuts...
posted by Orangutan (Thu Feb 19 09, 4:01PM)
This is pretty neat. What do the different colors mean?
posted by misterb (Thu Feb 19 09, 4:26PM)
In the interests of science, you could try sampling every 8 hours for a weekday day and a weekend day. I'd be willing to bet that your usage patterns will change by time of day and day of the week.
Of course, that would be geeky ...
posted by JoshDM (Thu Feb 19 09, 4:35PM)
Slow down.
posted by joy (Thu Feb 19 09, 4:45PM)
DUDE! That map is my absolute favorite thing to look at on sitemeter! I love looking at the maps and seeing how often I can get visitors from each continent at a time.
I hear you on Antarctica, though. I've been waiting for someone down under to visit...I keep telling myself if they're down there, they're probably there to do important things, not read my content.
Oh! My other favorite thing to look at? The search phrases. You would not believe how many people look up "the french word for gold."
posted by Mark (Thu Feb 19 09, 4:48PM)
Take a Made Mark Laugh point. Bonus for the inter-post reference.
posted by Mark (Thu Feb 19 09, 4:49PM)
The white dot in Brisbane qualifies for that ;-).
posted by Orangutan (Thu Feb 19 09, 6:13PM)
*facepalm*
Or I could just READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE before asking a question.
You may all now point and laugh at me, if you aren't already.
posted by Gee (Thu Feb 19 09, 6:19PM)
It looks like Asia isn't very well defended. (I've got RISK on my mobile phone.)
posted by Caroline (Thu Feb 19 09, 7:49PM)
Montreal, Canada.
and I think that the time zones would have an enormous effect on the Map.
Very interesting. Thanks/Merci :)
posted by PaulW (Thu Feb 19 09, 10:20PM)
According to the map, you need to visit:
Italy
Czech Republic
Germany
Barcelona
and the Canary Islands
Oh and you've got to visit them with Clive Owen as your towel boy. Or whichever Doctor you're geeking on at the moment.
posted by Weimlady (Fri Feb 20 09, 5:10AM)
One of the niftiest features of FanFiction.net is that they let you see where in the world the people are who are reading your stories. Just tickles the bejabers out of me to think that people in Croatia, Hong Kong, Poland, Sweden, China, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Norway, etc etc, are reading my little Doctor Who stories!
*ahem--my screen name (above) is linked to the current story, The Regeneration Experiment--close ahem*
posted by NorthernStar (Fri Feb 20 09, 8:49AM)
^^ FF.net does that now? I haven't logged on for quite a while. I must check that out.
posted by Weimlady (Fri Feb 20 09, 2:32PM)
^^ Just for your own stories. Not other peoples'.
posted by teakel (Sat Feb 21 09, 5:17PM)
Actually, I'm pretty sure the dot in Oz is me :)- I'm in Bundaberg, about 4 hours north of Brisbane. A dot of my own!
posted by bats :[ (Sat Feb 21 09, 10:05PM)
I can see my house!
posted by Der Bruno Stroszek (Tue Feb 24 09, 3:31PM)
I admire that one reader who seems to be somewhere off the coast of North Africa. Read MaryAnn's new reviews first, then worry about drowning.
posted by Jan Willem (Tue Feb 24 09, 4:06PM)
Ever heard of the Canary Islands, Bruno Stroszek?
posted by Der Bruno Stroszek (Wed Feb 25 09, 4:06AM)
(...I wasn't being serious, you know.)
posted by Ralph (Thu Feb 26 09, 6:59AM)
Totally off-topic, but not entirely unrelated: I just saw The Princess Bride with the kids and had a great time. The other day I saw the DVD for a mere three bucks, so I went out and bought it, due only to the fact that you, MaryAnn, are always raving about it. Thanks! I am so glad I found your site, donkey's years ago. You have given me so many good movie ideas. Just wanted to let you know.