Where VogelWorks Visitors Come From

Google Analytics keeps  a lot of good traffic metrics.  I was looking at it earlier today.  By far the coolest to me is their geographic overlay that maps where visitors come from.

Right now, Google Analytics tells me I’ve gotten around 200 unique visitors from 13 countries since I’ve started actively keeping the VogelWorks blog back in late June. Not all of these are genuine, real readers, but in all 13 of those countries, I can identify at least a hand full of visitors that I’m pretty sure are real readers.

Higher numbers of visitors are indicated by darker shades of green.

This, of course, got me thinking.  This a pretty good illustration why going to college can be a powerful thing, it really expands your network.  You meet a lot of people in one place.  MIT is pretty incredible for this.  My friends there came from a lot of places and have now gone off to a lot of places.

The geographic overlay of visitors gives a very tangible illustration of this. ( I’m afraid it’s a bit premature to credit my highly engaging content.)

Thanks to everyone that’s been adding thoughts and comments.  Your input is turning the VogelWorks blog into a very rich community of thought. (I just need to find a way to get all these thoughts onto one place on the site so that they can interact with each other.)

Kevin
7.28.2009