In checking my daily number of hits, I got bored of the simple graph that WordPress.com Stats gave me. Sure, I knew I was getting X number of hits, but from whom, and where were they? Was I getting any readers from overseas? So I tried out Visitor Maps and Who’s Online, which gives the IP address and location of all visitors.
I like this little gadget… the patterns in visits make for wonderful mental exercises. For instance, a lot of my traffic is coming from anti-gun and left-leaning areas of the country (NY, NJ, CA, MI, WI). Also, I have a regular reader from both France and Germany (not to mention the smattering of Canucks), and a visitor who– every week– visits every one of my Sunday morning videos via Google… from a different country. Business traveler, maybe?
But the most surprising was the visit from the Netherlands… Amsterdam, no less. Whoever they were, they were looking at the flamethrower post. To that visitor… if you’re planning on using a flamethower to light your smoking apparatus– hippie, please.
