“think of london, a small city…”
8 February 2011
“Come to Minneapolis on your next book tour, pretty please, Jason. We love you here. And by we I mean me. I’m not like that dude who is stalking Zuckerberg, I promise.”
This is a comment made by minneapolismichael in response to a post on my Tumblr blog which touched upon all the cities I’ve visited in support of the book.
(And yes, I have a tumblr blog at jasonmulgrew.tumblr.com. I’ll explain more later. In the meantime, follow me if you have one over there.)
Now, you’re probably thinking that I’m sharing this with you just because I want to both build up my self-esteem and brag to you all that other people love me (or at least, Michael does). Not so. Well, not entirely so.
It’s probably pretty obvious that I’m rededicating myself to blogging. We’ll get into the how and why of this at a later time, but one of the things involved with this rededication is checking out all sorts of new site traffic information, courtesy of Site Guy Brendan. Now, I’ve had access to this information for, well, forever, but hadn’t looked at it until just recently. And let’s just say that these traffic, um, trackers (?) have come a long way since I started blogging in 2004 and would spend my evenings masturbating to all those gorgeous hit count numbers on my SiteMeter.
What I found most interesting was the geographic stuff – how many people were visiting the site from certain cities and countries across the world. And let’s just say, Minneapolis, you surprised me.
According to my site traffic, Minneapolis is ranked ninth on the list of cities from which this site gotten the most hits. (And yes, I intentionally was trying to phrase that as awkwardly as possible.) With all due respect to that fair city, I had no idea! If I had known this, I likely would have hit up Minneapolis during the book tour, but, well, whoops. You guys need to email me more, as that was pretty much the basis for where I’d do the book tour. So get with it.
Anyway, there were some surprises in the top ten, but I could have guessed most of them:
1) NYC – Duh.
2) Philly – Duh.
3) Chicago – Not surprising, given the terrific turnout at the reading/event there (and the copious amounts of free drinks, of course).
4) Boston – This makes the fact that this reading was my worst even more painful. Fucking massholes. Can’t take them anywhere, or trust them to show up at your book event.
5) DC – Not totally surprising. What a boozy time we had there.
6) San Fran – I didn’t do San Fran on the reading tour because I personally don’t know anyone who lives there and I think I’ve gotten two emails from San Franciscans in the past three years. Again, whoops.
7) London – This one was kind of a shocker. But while we’re here, can I crash with one of you guys for a week? And by that I mean one week a month?
8) Los Angeles – Duh. If anything, a little low, but most of my friends in LA were not into blog reading. (“What is that? Like, a diary? Dude, you’re gay.”)
9) Minneapolis – See above.
10) Seattle – Not surprising, as I have a good group of friends there.
Other interesting tidbits:
- Outside of London, the largest non-U.S. readership comes from Toronto, which is 15th on the list.
- Austin (16), Dallas (18) and Houston (19) are all representing Texas and very close to each other, numbers-wise.
- Hello, Sydney! Largest traffic city in the southern hemisphere, at 26 overall.
- Highest traffic from a non-English speaking nation? Germany, at 6th overall, after the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, and Ireland.
Anyway, there you have it. Sorry if this post is a little self-indulgent (a little???), but two things that I love are stats and maps. So I just couldn’t help myself.
This is a comment made by minneapolismichael in response to a post on my Tumblr blog which touched upon all the cities I’ve visited in support of the book.
(And yes, I have a tumblr blog at jasonmulgrew.tumblr.com. I’ll explain more later. In the meantime, follow me if you have one over there.)
Now, you’re probably thinking that I’m sharing this with you just because I want to both build up my self-esteem and brag to you all that other people love me (or at least, Michael does). Not so. Well, not entirely so.
It’s probably pretty obvious that I’m rededicating myself to blogging. We’ll get into the how and why of this at a later time, but one of the things involved with this rededication is checking out all sorts of new site traffic information, courtesy of Site Guy Brendan. Now, I’ve had access to this information for, well, forever, but hadn’t looked at it until just recently. And let’s just say that these traffic, um, trackers (?) have come a long way since I started blogging in 2004 and would spend my evenings masturbating to all those gorgeous hit count numbers on my SiteMeter.
What I found most interesting was the geographic stuff – how many people were visiting the site from certain cities and countries across the world. And let’s just say, Minneapolis, you surprised me.
According to my site traffic, Minneapolis is ranked ninth on the list of cities from which this site gotten the most hits. (And yes, I intentionally was trying to phrase that as awkwardly as possible.) With all due respect to that fair city, I had no idea! If I had known this, I likely would have hit up Minneapolis during the book tour, but, well, whoops. You guys need to email me more, as that was pretty much the basis for where I’d do the book tour. So get with it.
Anyway, there were some surprises in the top ten, but I could have guessed most of them:
1) NYC – Duh.
2) Philly – Duh.
3) Chicago – Not surprising, given the terrific turnout at the reading/event there (and the copious amounts of free drinks, of course).
4) Boston – This makes the fact that this reading was my worst even more painful. Fucking massholes. Can’t take them anywhere, or trust them to show up at your book event.
5) DC – Not totally surprising. What a boozy time we had there.
6) San Fran – I didn’t do San Fran on the reading tour because I personally don’t know anyone who lives there and I think I’ve gotten two emails from San Franciscans in the past three years. Again, whoops.
7) London – This one was kind of a shocker. But while we’re here, can I crash with one of you guys for a week? And by that I mean one week a month?
8) Los Angeles – Duh. If anything, a little low, but most of my friends in LA were not into blog reading. (“What is that? Like, a diary? Dude, you’re gay.”)
9) Minneapolis – See above.
10) Seattle – Not surprising, as I have a good group of friends there.
Other interesting tidbits:
- Outside of London, the largest non-U.S. readership comes from Toronto, which is 15th on the list.
- Austin (16), Dallas (18) and Houston (19) are all representing Texas and very close to each other, numbers-wise.
- Hello, Sydney! Largest traffic city in the southern hemisphere, at 26 overall.
- Highest traffic from a non-English speaking nation? Germany, at 6th overall, after the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, and Ireland.
Anyway, there you have it. Sorry if this post is a little self-indulgent (a little???), but two things that I love are stats and maps. So I just couldn’t help myself.
