One of the nice features of having my own hosted website, is the ability to use clever programs to see statistics about my website.

Shortly after setting up the site, I installed a tracking cookie from Google Analytics.  This little cookie enables the Analytics site to gather information when anybody visits my site.  Not surprisingly, as a new site of limited interest to most people and virtually no promotion, I’ve had few visits, other than on one day.

Last Saturday during the #googmayharm fiasco, I made a post which detailed what was going on, and linked to it from twitter as usual adding the #googmayharm hashtag, linked to it from Geeks and also linked to a story on techcrunch which created a trackback.  That day I had a huge spike in traffic on this site.

One of the many features on Google Analytics is to see where the visitors come from.  Following the above post, my traffic sources info told me that the highest number of new visits came from Geeks.

I can also see where in the world my visitors have been located.  To date, I’ve had visitors from the UK and USA predominantly as you might expect, but also from Canada, Italy, India, Germany, Australia, Spain, Israel, France, Sweden, China, Singapore, Estonia, Phillipines, Portugal, Denmark, South Africa, Malta, Ireland, Dominica, Malaysia and Belgium! 

This WWW truly is worldwide.   Who knew?!