Jun 13, 2008

Where You Are

I thought I would share some info from Google Analytics about the locations from which people are logging onto this blog. These figures below are from the past week for the United States. There are a negligible number of hits from outside the United States. The figure given is on the number of visits, rather than the number of page views.

Apparently, 77% of the visitors coming from the ssa.gov domain show Maryland as the location from which they are logging on and 23% show North Carolina. None show any other location, but obviously, people in other states are logging onto this blog from ssa.gov. My impression is that Social Security must have two major internet portals, one in Maryland and one in North Carolina, through which all ssa.gov access to the internet is routed, regardless of where the person accessing the blog may be sitting. The location of this portal is reported rather than the actual location of the user.

And, by the way, I have no way in the world of determining exactly who is reading this blog. Google Analytics gives a lot of information, but it cannot identify any individual.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The SSA Webmaster Bruce Carter is retiring and I think he should get a high 5 for the fine work he has done with the SSA Website over the years.

Anonymous said...

Looking at your Feedjit widget, it is amazing you many of your visitors are from Maryland, prusumably from SSA in Baltimore. That shows that you are doing a better job of distributing news than the Social Security Administration!