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.

1.	Maryland	1,491
2.	North Carolina	537
3.	California	131
4.	District of Columbia	127
5.	Missouri	117
6.	(not set)	115
7.	Virginia	114
8.	Illinois	104
9.	Georgia	101
10.	Massachusetts	98
11.	New York	85
12.	Michigan	82
13.	Ohio	80
14.	Florida	77
15.	Texas	75
16.	Pennsylvania	64
17.	Tennessee	55
18.	Washington	54
19.	New Jersey	45
20.	South Carolina	43
21.	Kansas	27
22.	Iowa	24
23.	Oregon	24
24.	Delaware	24
25.	West Virginia	23
26.	Connecticut	22
27.	Alabama	20
28.	Colorado	16
29.	Maine	15
30.	Utah	14
31.	Oklahoma	13
32.	Nevada	13
33.	Wisconsin	12
34.	Minnesota	11
35.	Arkansas	10
36.	Indiana	10
37.	New Mexico	9
38.	Louisiana	8
39.	Kentucky	8
40.	Arizona	7
41.	Vermont	7
42.	New Hampshire	7
43.	Mississippi	7
44.	Rhode Island	5
45.	North Dakota	2
46.	Nebraska	2
47.	Hawaii	1