{"id":41,"date":"2008-01-20T07:37:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T12:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2022-05-10T06:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T11:31:14","slug":"arkansas-finally-checks-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/arkansas-finally-checks-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas (finally) Checks In!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many of you will recall <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=36\">my recent posting about Google Analytics<\/a>. It&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that post I whined a bit about a lack of traffic from Arkansas. I&#8217;d installed Google Analytics a full month earlier without a single page view from anyone there. And I&#8217;d recorded hits from every other state in the Union. Then I got a hit from the tiny Northern Mariana Islands. That&#8217;s a commonwealth in political union with the United States with <em>only 80,000 people<\/em>! Yet, nothing from Arkansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So finally this morning I found something very exciting. I saw a wonderful development waiting for me in the tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Evidence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/graphics\/blog\/arkansas_first_visitor.jpg\" alt=\"First Arkansas Visitor - Paragould. Screen print from Google Analytics for howderfamily.com\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Analytics of course records Internet Protocol addresses of page viewers. It correlates them to specific geographic locations and then plots them on maps based on user-generated preferences. It&#8217;s not totally foolproof since IP addresses don&#8217;t identify exact geographic locations every single time for every single user. 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