Tag: Google Analytics
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Reaching Out to Africa
I’ve been tracking the countries of origin of Twelve Mile Circle visitors for nearly two years. That shouldn’t be entirely surprising for a website that relies upon geographic content as its primary reason for existence. I’ve reported before that one of my goals is to collect at least one visitor from every country, filling in…
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Counting for the Sake of Counting
People count everything. We love to record our achievements and accomplishment however mundane others may consider them. I see this in birders who trek to remote wetlands or woodlands to add to their life lists. I also recognize one of my favorite blogs that counts visits to each museum in Connecticut. Additionally, I myself count…
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Dear Wasilla
An Open Letter to an Anonymous reader. Dear Wasilla, Few people from Alaska visit Twelve Mile Circle. When an Alaska visitor lands here she’s usually landing from Juneau, no doubt because a bunch of pages on my travel site focus there. So I take notice with when a non-Juneau Alaska visitor drops by. Regular readers…
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(I’ve Never Been to) Greenland
No, I’ve never been to Greenland but I’d love to go there someday. A few years ago I was flying between the North America continent and Iceland. The Iceland trip involved great places like Reykjavík, Landmannalaugar and the Fjallabak Nature Reserve, but I digress. From Above Anyway, the pilot came onto the intercom. He informed…
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Tracking my Travels
I have returned from my brief journey to the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coasts. So let’s wrap up this series of recent posts with a final entry. As I mentioned previously, the mapping tools provided with Google Analytics simply fascinate me. Now I’ve discovered yet another use for them: recording my travels. The Resulting Map…
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Arkansas (finally) Checks In!
Many of you will recall my recent posting about Google Analytics. It’s a wonderful tool that Google provides for people who like to leaf through maps for hours on end. It serves as such a delightful diversion. In that post I whined a bit about a lack of traffic from Arkansas. I’d installed Google Analytics…
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Maps on Google Analytics
I enabled Google Analytics recently on my web pages. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this tool, it involves the addition of a few lines of javascript to each page which in turn reports basic information back to the great Google mothership. It allows me to gain a better understanding of web traffic…