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In response to a good friend’s post, here are some interesting statistics on the visitors to my site. However, as Josh mentioned areas within the United States, I will begin with the visitors from other countries that visited my site recently in 2008.
In no particular order:
Romania, The Philippines, Ireland, Canada, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Finland, Australia, Thailand, The United States, The United Kingdom, Turkey, Czech Republic, Argentina, The United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Belgium, Macao, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, Lithuania, Taiwan, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Mauritius, South Africa, India, Norway, France, Poland, Sweden, Ecuador, Italy, Austria, Kuwait, and Greece.
That to me is interesting. Josh and I recently discussed site traffic so I’m glad I saw his post this morning (even though it was from last month… Sorry, Josh!). Like Josh mentioned, the traffic is being generated from search traffic. What is interesting is the way people are coming to my site… It’s for posts I thought would have no impact on the tech people around me, much less across the planet!
I’ve been amazed at the relevance of some of my posts as they rank on Google. A lot of these people are searching for “metasploit mac osx” or something similar, and my post, found here, ranks number one on Google. People are also stumbling upon (pun intended) my Web site for queries related to recording rap albums, Garage Band, CakePHP, png2ico, and other things I have blogged about in the past for my own personal notes, or to help others out of they needed it… Looks like they’re needing it…
Analytics is a wonderful thing. While 60% of my visitors are from the States, it is interesting to see the amount of traffic originating from other countries… And scary! Like Josh says in his posts: “These people are looking at ME!” The bad thing is that, I actually have photos of me some guy I saw on the street and paid to let me take his photo on here… And, other people… I guess the whole world knows us now… Except, their only interested in Metasploit! Sorry to burst your bubble! 
Until next time…
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June 11th, 2008 at 10:20 AM
I found it interesting the contrast between what I thought was interesting on my site, versus what others thought was interesting. It sounds like you have the same problem. Do you force people to look at the things that most interest you by deleting other posts, or do you keep what people are driven to?
FromJune 11th, 2008 at 11:13 AM
I keep it all, Josh! Pretty transparent here! :\
FromJune 11th, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Wow! I’m impressed.
FromJune 12th, 2008 at 7:37 AM
I noticed the same thing the first time I really looked through the logs for Kellar’s site. We get hits from everywhere…of course his site kinda holds to one subject, so we pretty much know what the visitors came to his site looking for. Still, it’s pretty interesting to see.
FromJune 13th, 2008 at 7:10 AM
I’ve noticed the same thing as well with my site. I’m sure it’s all search traffic of course except for maybe the Germany hits since Outlaw Division is representing over in Germany via Sina, lol. I know there are some stickers there anyway. I just wonder how the experience goes down for these foreigners that stumble across our sites via search…
Sitting at their pc browsing around and in their search results they click on a link that takes you them to a page that doesn’t have a single word on it that they can understand…and their sitting there going, what in the freakin world did I just click on…I can’t read this! In the meantime….chalk up another foreign hit in your webstats.
Okay, so I know they don’t all go down like that. I think it’s been proven that some legit foreigners have stumbled across the crusty site (and also the late Average Admins site) and found useful or good info…like how-to hack a Nokia E61 Average Admin style. Which is still number one in Google’s eyes! Search if you don’t believe me.
This doesn’t however include the foreigners who thought it would be cool to conveniently burn the Average Admins monthly bandwidth limit like it was 87 octane gas back in the mid 90’s (.78 cents per gallon).
Now you ask…what is the moral of this story? Well, I said all that just say RIP Average Admins…we miss you.
FromJune 13th, 2008 at 7:44 AM
Ah, yes… Average Admins… We will miss you…
And, I have to argue one of your points, Troy… I think we in America are the only ones that can’t speak but one language… It seems every other country in the world can speak English and their native language…
I wish I could speak another language besides English and psycho-babble…
Thanks for the comment, Troy!
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