A few months ago, I installed Google Analytics on my official Web site. Combined with Google’s tools for webmasters, it has been a real learning experience, as I’ve discovered all the things I have been doing wrong all these years.

But some of what I’ve learned has been really fun. For starters, since November 1, 2008, there have been 1,134 unique visits to my site; even more interesting, those visitors hail from 547 cities in 45 different countries.

As one might imagine, the majority of my site’s traffic (809 visits) came from the United States. But it’s cool to see where the rest of it came from:

United Kingdom (81)
Canada (73)
Germany (45)
Australia (17)
Ireland (10)
The Netherlands (8)
France (8)
Spain (6)
The Phillipines (5)
Italy (5)
Sweden and an unidentified territory (4 from both)

3 Visits Each
Serbia
Mexico
Japan
Austria
Israel
Argentina
Denmark
China
Brazil

2 Visits Each
Singapore
Portugal
Norway
Turkey
India
Trinidad and Tobago
Russia
Switzerland

1 Visit Each
Slovakia
Greece
Bulgaria
Morocco
Hong Kong
Czech Republic
Hungary
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Malta
Finland
Peru
New Zealand
Latvia
Belgium
Poland

I know it shouldn’t surprise me, but it just feels kind of cool to know that there are people all over the world who, through whatever combination of choice or error, have visited my web site and learned perhaps a little bit about li’l ol’ me.