12/9/2005

Where are you?

Filed under: — Aprille @ 8:29 am

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.

IP Geolocator

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.

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