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by Jeff Ooi, Malaysia


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Try ClustrMaps to locate your readers

Oct 2, 2007 07:22

Have you tried ClustrMaps, a free application to help you track daily unique visitors to your blog by means of graphical representation on a global map?

I activated it for one week, starting September 24, and it began to show where readers to my personal blog are coming from, geographically.



I could see lots of red dots from both sides of the Pacific Rim, both sides of the Atlantic, both sides of the South China Sea, and some enlarging ones in the progressive Gulf States of Arabia.

It certainly is telling me something interesting. For example, I blog in English, but my blog has yet to gain significant exposure in Hispanic Latin America, the entire African continent, the bloc of Eastern Europe and Russia, and Francophone Canada. Can this be taken that English is really not the lingua franca for the Internet as the language barrier is immense?

Perhaps, just perhaps, it is also suggesting that many Malaysians migrated or currently domiciled overseas are logging on to obtain updates about their motherland? If that's true, then the Malaysian diaspora must be a growing story we can't dismiss.

As I didn't opt for a paid version, the app restricted the traffic count to 2,500 unique visitors per day, which is roughly about 20 percent of my average weekday traffic. This means what was captured was just a distorted snapshot of the fabric of global readers who visit me.

I reckon the analysis is computed around 09:00 GMT on a daily basis. So the trawlnet helps me to measure traffic that is skewed on Euro-US timezones.



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Geekonomics says...
Cool app... at least you getting good hits from China! A university head of business school just told me that English's gonna be relegated to the 5th language on the internet this year from 4th last year. I couldn't really find the research to backup his claim but I think it's totally possible considering chinese and spanish!

Oct 02, 2007 08:06
 
 
clustrmaps says...
Hi... thanks for the nice review...
just one clarification: we do not actually restrict or cut off the dots at 2,500!! This is a recommended limit, and we double-check the statistics to avoid abouse of the service, but all dots get shown correctly!

Many thanks again...

-CJ on behalf of clustrmaps.com">ClustrMaps

Nov 24, 2007 18:54
 
 
blitzkreig says...
Looks like you have a reader in Thar Jath - Sudan as well.

Dec 12, 2007 12:53
 
 
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About Jeff Ooi

Jeff Ooi is an Internet and e-Business consultant based in Kuala Lumpur who's spent the last four years blogging internationally on the tech scene, on anything and nothing. Which doesn't really explain why most of his own technology is about three years out of date. He doesn't even own a PDA after his Palm V crashed. He's on 3G, though... Lemak Lemang refers to coconut-flavored sticky rice stuffed in a bamboo container.

 
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