“So where’s everybody from?”

That was my ice-breaker question for Sail-Away parties on board ship.  And it’s a question I wonder when I look each morning at how many folks visited my blog the day before.

Writing a daily blog is addictive, and a whole lot of work!  If you doubt it, go to WordPress.com, sign up for a blog and get started.  It’s easy!  Really!  But . . . if you want it to look good, be interesting, and get lots of readers, well, it takes lots of work.  But when it gets tiring I remind myself that my daily audience on the blog is a whole lot greater than my weekly audience used to be in church!

So, where is everybody from?

A year ago I added a little application called Cluster Maps which shows with various size red dots some of the folks who are coming to visit my site.  Comparing the Cluster Maps statistics to the more accurate WordPress statistics, I would say Cluster Maps catches about half of the visitors, but it does give you an idea where folks are coming from.  And it is not called the WORLD WIDE WEB for nothing, as you can see!  

The Cluster Maps application records visitors for a year, and then resets and starts all over again, which is what it will do today, or tomorrow.  So, before it resets, I thought you’d like to see where you, and some of my other readers, are from . . . 

The list of countries reads almost like the United Nations!