pat loughery

A couple of weeks ago I found a new web counter, WebStats4u, that’s got a fantastic bit of functionality – it shows you where (company, country) the readers of a website come from.

According to this new thing, visitors to this little blog, which is averaging somewhere around 40 hits a day, have recently come from these countries and organizations:

• Norway
• Oman
• Hong Kong
• Belgium
• India
• Australia
• Germany
• Japan
• South Africa
• Singapore
• Malaysia (is that you, Sivin Kit?)

and these organizatoins:

• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Alaska legislature Online, Juneau, United States

And that’s just in the last couple of days.

To which I can only say two things: 1) back to work :-); and 2) thanks for stopping by.

A while back somebody from one of the publishing companies was dropping in. If you come back again, I can write better than this, I promise.

If you want to claim your country or your company, comment below. Or feel free to continue to lurk 🙂

You can see it directly yourself on this site by clicking on the little blue icon at the very bottom of the page, or just by clicking this link.

The other stat trackign system I was and still am using, wp-stattraq, apparently doesn’t filter out bot hits – search bots, etc – and also counts newsreaders like bloglines. There’s a great hit count disparity between those two (stattraq tells me I have around 800 users a day). Therefore I have no idea how many people stop by here in reality, b ut the global hits are humbling and exciting at the same time. Stattraq shows me search terms that bring people to my blog, though, which are always entertaining.