Occasionally, I take a look at the “who’s on?” feature of our web stats, because I find it fascinating to see the spread of people who take time to read blogs. This one time, I thought I’d share the result with you. I’ve annnotated the list where I recognized the domain; typically university addresses.
I realize that the time of the day that one looks at the stats plays a large part in determining which time zones the majority of visitors are from. But I had to do it at some time and I just happened to have a half hour free right now.
At 8:46pm this evening, people from the following locations were reading Cosmic Variance (more than one person from several of these locations).
1. Chicago, IL, USA.
2. Springfield, IL, USA (Lincoln Land Community College).
3. Lumberport, WV, USA.
4. Rochester, NY, USA (University of Rochester).
5. Mount Laurel, NJ, USA.
6. Sarasota, FL, USA.
7. West Newton, MA, USA (Harvard University).
8. Davis, CA, USA (University of California, Davis).
9. Chaichiaotou, Taiwan.
10. Los Angeles, CA, USA (University of California, Los Angeles).
11. Portsmouth, OH, USA.
12. Baltimore, MD, USA.
13. Columbus, OH, USA.
14. Westborough, MA, USA.
15. Tallahassee, FL, USA.
16. Locke, NY, USA.
17. New York, NY, USA.
18. Cambridge, MA, USA (Harvard University).
19. Seattle, WA, USA.
20. Costa Mesa, CA, USA.
21. Brooklyn, NY, USA.
22. Newark, DE, USA.
23. Amsterdam, NY, USA.
24. Glendale Heights, IL, USA.
25. Bronx, NY, USA.
26. Cardiff, Wales, UK.
27. Plano, TX, USA.
28. Jamaica Plain, MA, USA.
29. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (.edu.au).
30. Tucson, AZ, USA.
31. Ottawa, ON, Canada.
32. Bensenville, IL, USA.
33. Cottesloe, Western Australia, Australia (.edu.au)
34. San Diego, CA, USA.
35. Parkersburg, WV, USA.
36. Canyon County, CA, USA.
37. Amherst, MA, USA.
38. Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas.
39. Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia.
40. Fort Collins, CO, USA.
41. Livermore, CA, USA (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
42. Bozeman, MT, USA.
43. Brighton, MA, USA.
44. Landala, Sweden.
45. Suquamish, WA, USA.
46. Lokeren, Belgium.
47. Atlanta, GA, USA.
48. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
49. Bylehamn, Sweden.
50. Coudersport, PA, USA.
51. Princeton, NJ, USA (The Institute for Advanced Study).
52. Dover, NH, USA (University of New Hampshire).
November 10th, 2005 at 9:42 pm
I should hasten to add that we are not able to pinpoint any more information about a hit on the site than the originating domain. We cannot identify individual users or computers (and we have no interest in doing so).
Cheers,
-cvj
November 10th, 2005 at 9:53 pm
But I’d check under the bed before going to sleep tonight, just in case.
November 10th, 2005 at 10:01 pm
Ha, Clifford is too modest. I’m quite interested in knowing the identities and personal habits of all the people who visit the site. To this end, I’ve installed a clever and subtle virus that infiltrates your computer as soon as you visit, and forwards to me all of your credit card numbers.
Really, a small price to pay for all this sparkling content.
November 10th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
We passed half a million page views today!
November 10th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
I’d missed that – fantastic! Thanks to all our visitors – hope you’re enjoying the posts.
November 10th, 2005 at 10:13 pm
I sure am. Are you enjoying the dissent?
November 11th, 2005 at 2:23 am
If you check in the morning, PST, you will probably find a lot more readers from Europe.
November 11th, 2005 at 8:42 am
I guess #38 is me ?
November 11th, 2005 at 8:44 am
By the way, I guess you know that bitchPhd is currently involved in a case where a visitor tries to figure out her identity from the IP traffic in order to sue her.
November 11th, 2005 at 9:13 am
Hey! Why am I last?
November 11th, 2005 at 10:17 am
To enlarge a bit your list of visitors here you have my location:
- A Coruña, Galicia, SPAIN
Sean: Don’t worry, I’ve hacked your server and now I have you credit card number, too. ;0)
November 11th, 2005 at 11:12 am
Hi INT, I’m a neighbour of yours
-Lisbon, PORTUGAL
Keep up the good work
November 12th, 2005 at 3:15 am
As a happy grad student, I come from nowhere.
November 12th, 2005 at 5:22 am
And I come from everywhere
(but my feet seem to be located in Rome)
November 12th, 2005 at 11:59 am
I’m a citizen of the world – born in S.Asia, study/work in the USA, play music that came from Germany and Austria, regularly eat Couscous with Chinese food. My boss is from Brazil – in his own words BrazEEEEEEEEEEl
And of course I love Al Gore’s wonderful invention – the internet.
November 17th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
and Boston….jeez