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I’ve been running Google Analytics on this blog for a few months now. I decided to set it up at the time, because I had just done so for a client and it was straightforward enough.

I wanted to keep a look out for the friendly Turkish hackers that attacked this blog back in March, since I had figured out how they found it in the first place.

The traffic flowing to and from websites today is analysed to the hilt and some software can be wonderfully sophisticated.

So let’s take a look at what’s happening with MIKEPADGETT.COM:

Oxfordshire is almost top of the visitors’ list by location

Some of my former colleagues at RM are clearly still enjoying being well rid of me, checking up regularly just to make sure I’ve gone for good.

A steady (but small) stream of visitors!

Visits are not exactly in the millions (!), but the stream is steady. Much more interesting is the range of location across the world from which these users originate.

All the world’s my way

Every continent is represented here. Even users from China have managed to find this blog, presumably without the help of Google. Note the little clump of Turkish folks, probably among whom were our friendly bunch of hackers.

Finally, here are a couple of bafflers:

Users in Walsall (a place I’ve never been) account for almost as many as in Oxfordshire (where I lived and got to know people for nearly four years). This must be something to do with centralised ISPs methinks.

This blog has also hosted several visitors from News International, which of course owns The Times and The Sun, amongst other rags. So what’s the scoop?