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The mystery of it all. If you scrolly-scrolly down to the bottom of my page you may notice that I have a counter. Normal, expected even. But I also have a site meter (insert canned applause, or perhaps applesauce as that suddenly sounds really good - sorry haven't had lunch yet). Anyway, I love this little thing. If you don't have any idea what I'm on about, site meter is a free website sign-up thing where they track how many people come to your site and a little bit about them. Like how they got to your site (what page they were on that linked to my page - usually LoveFeast, or Librarianne as their blogs generate a lot more traffic than mine), how long they stayed (usually 2 minutes or so), and a general location.
It's that last on that is some fun, partly because they have a feature that will plot those locations as a little dot on a world map and partly because it's just interesting to see where traffic on my site it coming from. Sometimes I can guess who is behind the visit, like when it is Pompano Beach - that is gonna be Roland, or Mt. Pleasant - that is likely to be Anne or Karl, or Kalamazoo - probably Jason or maybe Shannon. But sometimes it is a mystery, like Rutledge, Tennessee. I don't think I know anyone in Tennessee, so who are they and what do they think of my blathering. I'll never know. And Muskegon, sometimes people from Muskegon stop by, could that be someone I know? I do know few people over yonder, but they don't leave comments so again, I'll never know. And sometimes I figure out the mystery like Goshen, NY - oh wait, Henry is visiting near there for work.
That got me thinking about people I know from Muskegon, how are they doing, what are they doing. Like is Lisa as bubbly as ever and going to see Harry Potter as soon as possible? Is Kate as goofy and fun to be around? Does Kelli still have her finger on the pulse of student gossip? Is Susan doing all right? That last one stings a bit, I miss her.
I also wonder about some of the students I had. What they are planning, what college they are going to, what jobs they have gotten. It would be interesting to know what they are up to. I think a lot about the last year when I had an honors class. They were a blast to teach, I just hope I did them justice. Anyway, time for the afternoon constitutional...and maybe some applesauce.
It's that last on that is some fun, partly because they have a feature that will plot those locations as a little dot on a world map and partly because it's just interesting to see where traffic on my site it coming from. Sometimes I can guess who is behind the visit, like when it is Pompano Beach - that is gonna be Roland, or Mt. Pleasant - that is likely to be Anne or Karl, or Kalamazoo - probably Jason or maybe Shannon. But sometimes it is a mystery, like Rutledge, Tennessee. I don't think I know anyone in Tennessee, so who are they and what do they think of my blathering. I'll never know. And Muskegon, sometimes people from Muskegon stop by, could that be someone I know? I do know few people over yonder, but they don't leave comments so again, I'll never know. And sometimes I figure out the mystery like Goshen, NY - oh wait, Henry is visiting near there for work.
That got me thinking about people I know from Muskegon, how are they doing, what are they doing. Like is Lisa as bubbly as ever and going to see Harry Potter as soon as possible? Is Kate as goofy and fun to be around? Does Kelli still have her finger on the pulse of student gossip? Is Susan doing all right? That last one stings a bit, I miss her.
I also wonder about some of the students I had. What they are planning, what college they are going to, what jobs they have gotten. It would be interesting to know what they are up to. I think a lot about the last year when I had an honors class. They were a blast to teach, I just hope I did them justice. Anyway, time for the afternoon constitutional...and maybe some applesauce.
posted by Susan at 1:46 PM
1 Comments:
I thought about putting a site meter on my site but then decided I might now want to know how many (or how few) people actually visit. I think I'll just sit back and assume that thousands of people visit my site every day and that, for no good reason none of them ever leave comments :)
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