I went to Manchester to see Dave Matthews friday, having left the world to read my recent interview, and I’ve come back with some interesting web stats, as the following image shows:
Some of the countries stand out as being rather out of the ordinary. Most of these are fairly explainable though – the chances are somebody in France is going to have the intelligence to use a computer. Even a DMB oriented member of the US military might find themselves perusing the internet, it’s not as if there’s anything going on in Iraq at the moment. But the sudden jump in the number of hits from the US Government is what disturbs me the most, especially considering they don’t appear on the stats at all before May. Perhaps there are some more liberal minds in the overly right-wing Senate and House of Representatives. Or, far more likely, Dave is part of some massive Republican conspiracy. Perhaps those indicted in the CIA leak case will turn out to be Rove, Libby and Matthews?
Either way, I seemed to have gained a new audience as a result of my foray into semi-professional journalism. Other interesting tidbits from my stats:
- “england football club” is my second highest search string click-through (after “nancies uk”)
- Britney Spears is featured in 5 of my top 20 search strings
- Thanks to my site URL being misquoted in the DMB Rhyme & Reason newsletter I was featured in (as nancies.uk) people have had to search for that URL in Google to find my site. With all the spying going on it’s probably not a bad thing, to be honest.