Google has given us the tools to not only count the number of visits to the blog each day, but also to keep track of the cities from which the visitors are looking at the blog. Every now and then I monitor this information for both enrichment and amusement. My reaction ranges from a grunt of annoyance to a grunt of approval. Yesterday I noticed that on May 22nd we had a total of 47 visits. I also noticed that on May 25th we had 7 visits. I suppose we shouldn't expect any visitors on days without any posts. We're sorry we failed you those days.
We who run the bleisenblog, and live in our bliesenhouse, and drive the bleisenmobile, and make smoothies with a bleisender, like to not only see many visits, but also see many visits from many cities. We have a bleisenbelt that we make notches on every time we have a visit from a new city. On the 22nd we had visits from 35 cities. (See appendix A for a list of the cities that had more than 1 visit) Now, as an exercise in self-indulgence (which this post really seems to be), let us take a look at the number of visits to the blog from from a year ago. Last year on May 22nd we had a mere 36 visits coming from a paltry 14 cities, all within the US. It seems that either out readership has increased in number, or has increased their curiosity i.e. people need to reread the posts [or the difference in the two days happened completely at random].
Now, let us take a look at where, you, the readers are viewing this blog (click the map to make it larger):
From the map, we see that the Bleisenblog has really gone international, with quite a few readers outside of countries where our siblings live. (For those who are bad at geography see Appendix B for a list of the countries). Although this is an impressive start, as we all know from the board game Risk we don't have the most strategic spots yet (Australia I'm looking in your direction).
Anyway, I think that all of you should be proud to be part of such a diverse group - the Bleisenmunity.
Sneak Peak for tomorrow Wednesday the 28th: Kate comes back from a 20 hour jaunt to Washington DC and then probably posts pictures of Dylan.
Appendix A:
Cities with more than 1 visits on May 22nd:
Ithaca, NY (5 visits)
New Haven, CT (4)
Rochester, NY (3)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2)
Greenlawn, NY (2)
Woburn, MA (2)
Appendix B:
US
Brazil
Romania
Germany
UK
Canada
Spain
Mexico
4 comments:
I don't understand why there is no mention of Morocco? The only reason I even read the blog is to make the map of hits more exotic!
Who's in Brazil?
Where's Tully? That's certainly as exotic as Morocco!
Annie, maybe your Internet service place is in Spain so that's how it shows up? That or you're not visiting enough.
I have no idea who's in Brazil, but feel free to speak up if it's you.
Perhaps Tully is subsumed under the enormous pile of dots in New York state? Just a guess.
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