{"id":753,"date":"2006-10-25T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T09:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/25\/where-youre-at\/"},"modified":"2006-10-25T09:28:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T09:28:25","slug":"where-youre-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/25\/where-youre-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Where You&#8217;re At"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, I start poking at the stats in Google Analytics, and I almost always find something interesting. For example, in the last week, this site has been visited twice by someone from Mauritius, four times by someone from Iran, and six times by someone from Kyrgyzstan. I&#8217;m being read by somebody in a country I can&#8217;t even pronounce.<\/p>\n<p><p>Google identifies visits from 61 different contries (well, 60 countries, plus &#8220;Satellite Provider&#8221;). Just over 75% are from the US, and adding Canada, the UK, and Australia accounts for better than 90% of them. But that still leaves an amazing number of countries where at least one person has looked at something I wrote. It&#8217;s a real living-in-the-future moment. <\/p>\n<p><p>I&#8217;ll post the whole list below the fold, because it&#8217;s kind of interesting to look at. I&#8217;m not sure it means anything, but it&#8217;s cool to know that stuff I dashed off in ten minutes of procrastinating before work is getting looked at in Ghana, Algeria, and Estonia.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re outside the top four countries on the list and reading this, drop a comment and let me know how you found the site, and what you think of it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\t\tUnited States<\/li>\n<li>2\t\tCanada<\/li>\n<li>3\t\tUnited Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>4\t\tAustralia<\/li>\n<li>5\t\tGermany<\/li>\n<li>6\t\tFrance<\/li>\n<li>7\t\tSweden<\/li>\n<li>8\t\tDenmark<\/li>\n<li>9\t\tFinland<\/li>\n<li>10\t\tNetherlands<\/li>\n<li>11\t\tIndia<\/li>\n<li>12\t\tBelgium<\/li>\n<li>13\t\tNew Zealand<\/li>\n<li>14\t\tSpain<\/li>\n<li>15\t\tIreland<\/li>\n<li>16\t\tJapan<\/li>\n<li>17\t\tNorway<\/li>\n<li>18\t\tBrazil<\/li>\n<li>19\t\tSingapore<\/li>\n<li>20\t\tSouth Africa<\/li>\n<li>21\t\tIsrael<\/li>\n<li>22\t\tSwitzerland<\/li>\n<li>23\t\tItaly<\/li>\n<li>24\t\tAustria<\/li>\n<li>25\t\tKyrgyzstan<\/li>\n<li>26\t\tPortugal<\/li>\n<li>27\t\tEurope<\/li>\n<li>28\t\tBulgaria<\/li>\n<li>29\t\tTaiwan<\/li>\n<li>30\t\tGreece<\/li>\n<li>31\t\tSlovenia<\/li>\n<li>32\t\tRomania<\/li>\n<li>33\t\tPoland<\/li>\n<li>34\t\tIran, Islamic Republic of<\/li>\n<li>35\t\tSatellite Provider<\/li>\n<li>36\t\tMexico<\/li>\n<li>37\t\tKenya<\/li>\n<li>38\t\tChile<\/li>\n<li>39\t\tKorea, Republic of<\/li>\n<li>40\t\tUnited Arab Emirates<\/li>\n<li>41\t\tChina<\/li>\n<li>42\t\tLuxembourg<\/li>\n<li>43\t\tMalaysia<\/li>\n<li>44\t\tPhilippines<\/li>\n<li>45\t\tTurkey<\/li>\n<li>46\t\tIceland<\/li>\n<li>47\t\tArgentina<\/li>\n<li>48\t\tMauritius<\/li>\n<li>49\t\tCzech Republic<\/li>\n<li>50\t\tHong Kong<\/li>\n<li>51\t\tBahamas<\/li>\n<li>52\t\tPakistan<\/li>\n<li>53\t\tBangladesh<\/li>\n<li>54\t\tThailand<\/li>\n<li>55\t\tLithuania<\/li>\n<li>56\t\tVietnam<\/li>\n<li>57\t\tGhana<\/li>\n<li>58\t\tAlgeria<\/li>\n<li>59\t\tCroatia<\/li>\n<li>60\t\tEgypt<\/li>\n<li>61\t\tEstonia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, I start poking at the stats in Google Analytics, and I almost always find something interesting. For example, in the last week, this site has been visited twice by someone from Mauritius, four times by someone from Iran, and six times by someone from Kyrgyzstan. I&#8217;m being read by somebody in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/25\/where-youre-at\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where You&#8217;re At<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}