Autarchy of the Private Cave » visitors

My readers are natural-born workaholics

Bogdan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:43:14 +0000

Here’s the ultimate proof :

One can clearly see that on weekends the number of unique visitors of my blog drops drastically to about 40-50% of the working week average.

And yes, that is an almost perfect 5+2 pattern, which I’m observing for many months, like a week-long circadian rhythm. “Almost perfect” must be due to the differences in time zones.

I wonder if the same pattern is characteristic for most web-sites… That is, if people mostly do the browsing at work, and not at home.

Anybody wants to share the secret cycles of one’s blog audience?

Geo-tracking visitors, part 3

Bogdan — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:39:43 +0000

Just came across yet another geo-tracking visitors service. (For two more, see my previous posts on ClustrMaps.)

This solution – Geo Visitors – like MapStats, is GoogleMaps-based.
Unlike MapStats, though, Geo Visitors does not provide any extra information on the request generated from the tracked visitor location.
You only get the “View in GoogleEarth” link with coordinates, and that’s it.

After I installed GoogleEarth, the geovisitors.kml file was downloaded and happily opened by GoogleEarth.
Well, I can only say that Geo Visitors works – I didn’t check if it’s more or less precise than MapStats.
However, as for web-site visitors geo-tracking, I prefer MapStats – just because they show additional information, such as referrer, browser, exact page visited, cookies and java state – and all in one pop-up balloon.

Please comment and let me know, if there are any other (better) services.

ClustrMaps: geo-tracking visitors

Bogdan — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:09:56 +0000

I decided to try the ClustrMaps service – they offer a mini-map of geographical locations of your site visitors (you can see a sample at the bottom of the right sidebar and of this post… currently no ‘dots’ there, as it is freshly installed). Registration is simple. If you have Sidebar Widgets plugin, you will only need to add ‘Text’ block somewhere, and paste in the code provided at ClustrMaps admin page.

Somewhat useless, especially when you already have Google Analytics running for your site (it has a very similar to ClustrMaps’ geo display… as if it might be different ). The good thing is that this geo-statistic is public.

Note, that free ClustrMaps is limited to 2500 visitors a day, and you are obliged to make the thumbnail map visible (no hidden counters). Of course, there are also paid versions – ClustrMaps+ and ClustrMaps Pro. Find more details yourself at ClustrMaps.