I SEE YOU

Not really.
But I do see how many visitors I've had on SKaySpeak on any given day.  I see lots of other information, too.  Some of which, makes little sense to me.

Google has an analytic tracker which can be used on a blogspot blog.  I have it.  But, I don't completely understand it.

One thing which is quite easy to understand just tickles the daylights out of me.  It's a map of the world showing the aproximate location of each of your visitors.  Since I've started using this service, not long after I began my blog, I have had visitors from  26 different countries!  Is that cool, or what?  They've come from all over the world including such places as Senegal, Latvia, Georgia (the country, not the state!), Romania and Viet Nam.

I realize that some of them are accidental visitors.  Let's say a woman in New Zealand is researching how to make tamales.  She winds up on my site after googling 'how to make tamales.'  She finds out, very quickly, that my site has absolutely nothing to offer her in the way of helpful information.  So she's gone, lickety-split.  I can't really call her a visitor, can I? 

However, I have had some such visitors who wind up reading several pages of my blog.  How do I know that?  Because the report includes which pages people looked at...how long they stayed on the blog.....which page they left from.....how many are old visitors and how many are new ones....and as they say on tv commercials...much, much more!

SKaySpeak has had almost 1800 visits since November 18, 2009, when I began using the tracker.  I posted my first blog on October 24, 2009.I've written 107 posts, if you count my "Never on Sunday" ones.  You average about four and a half minutes per visit and read about two and a half pages per visit.

There are a number of you who are faithful readers.  I know where many of you live 'cause you're old friends. When I see your city listed, I know it's 'you' and I smile inside my heart.  One of you, from way up North, has been to SKaySpeak 161 times since the tracking began.

The U.S. visitors have come from thirty-nine different states!

I have a couple of new 'followers.'  I don't know who they are, though.  I wish you'd say 'howdy' and introduce yourself in the comments.

I wrote about how to do that here.  Folks who are having problems commenting might want to read this one again, too.

http://skayspeak.blogspot.com/2009/11/murgatroid-macgillicutty.html

I also did a lot of groveling in that post.  Please forgive me.  But I just couldn't help myself.

I need to add one thing to that information.  Sometimes, for some strange reason, you just have to click on 'post comment' twice.  I don't know why.

I don't want anyone to worry that I am actually 'tracking' you...in a stalking sort of way.  It's not that detailed at all...not that specific...not that sinister.

I check my report every morning to see if my list of countries and states has grown.  It's rather like having a life-list, if you're a bird watcher.

Only 12 more states to go!!!!!!!!

I'm so grateful to each of you...those of you who come here on purpose...and those of you who come here by accident, but stay for a bit of a visit.

Thank you, everyone, everywhere in this big, but still very small, world in which we live!