29 November 2006

Snapshot of "the Many" (You)

About 3 weeks ago, I started a service to chart how and from where "the Many" come from.

Here are some results...
Total visits logged to date: 254
Average per day: 11
Our Farthest visitors:
To the East: Singapore at 6,129 miles away
To the West: Oakland, CA at 5,811 miles away

The Continents:


The Countries:


Distances between us and the Many:

You can figure the "2000 mile ring-void" means that we have zero visitors from Kazakhstan or the Atlantic. Most close visits are our own computer used for writing & checking.

Technical facts:
1. Only 1% of of visitors are Mac users (99% use some flavor of Microsoft Windows)
2. Of Windows users, 4 out of 5 use XP, while the other is split between 98 and 2000.
3. Javascript a security hazard? Poo-poo say 99% of you. Only 1% show it disabled.
4. Four out of 5 Windows users prefer Internet Explorer. Then Firefox and Netscape users. And then there's Pounder with some super-advanced version of Firefox.


Feel like you're being watched? So do we...
1. Remember our post "Like Watching a Train Wreck", about the ultra-close Senate race? Less than 24 hours afterwards, we had a one-time visit logged from the US Senate (specifically Sergeant-at-arms office) in Washington, D.C. That visitor read for 3 minutes, left, and hasn't been back.
2. One week ago, we noticed several visitors from places we had no friends/family. All 'stranger' visits originated from one post: our names and blog were posted on some baby blog, citing our '24' show addiction and how we "hide it from the children".


THE MANY SINGS TO US ... and we sing back.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Who in India is checking your blog? Whoever you are, fess up, we want to visit.

Unknown said...

Just checked out the baby-blog. Creepy or validating to have a complete stranger read and critique your personal blog?

May & Jeff said...

Jeff K-
Both May and I were surprised. "Creepy" may be too strong, but it was a surprise. A naive surprise, considering our blog is, after all, on the Internet.

Keep in mind, if we had not been monitoring for ourselves, we would never have known someone else was writing about us (and also sending their audience to us). Likewise with the Senate visit.
Makes you think...who's writing about you out there?
Made us realize quick that strangers can read this as fast as you can. And they do. Yeah, a bit creepy.