I have to admit...

[featherynscale]

I have to admit that one of the reasons for this morning's first post was to include the SiteMeter button. What this does is, like most counting things, tracks views of the entry. Why? Curiosity, mostly. I am a data whore. And also because it looks at where you're reading from, and then generates a list of servers and a world map.

Now, I really don't care how many people read me. I have a pretty good idea of that already. They're mostly on my flist. That's all good. But I have enjoyed looking at where people are reading from. This morning's post got hits from Poland and somewhere the former USSR, Italy, France and so on and so forth. That's kind of neat.

But it's not what really tripped me about the dataset. What I really want to know is who out there is reading me from these servers, all of which appeared in my listings:

- house.gov
- customs.gov
- osd.mil
- prisonstripsearch.com

Anyway, it's kind of a neat toy.

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Go to their site (sitemeter.com), fill out a form to sign up for services, dodge their attempts to sell you stuff, and you'll have the option to get HTML code. There's an option at the top of the code page that will give you HTML and/or Javascript. Copy and paste one of those codeblocks into whatever you're trying to track on. Placing the code in one entry will (I think) only track for that entry. There seems to be a way to edit the code into your S2 style page (so that it will apply on every entry), but I couldn't work it out in the 3 minutes that I wanted to give brainspace to it.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I'm so completely freaked out by what you found, I'm definately going to try it on mine!