I have a little map down in my sidebar that puts red dots for all of my visitors. Sure, my blog has been rather dead recently - but I have a backlock of about five hundred articles that Google seems to love… and as a result I get lots of visitors on a daily basis. (200+ a day is usual)
Google loves me so much that it will send people to me when they search for crap that isn’t even on my blog! (I can’t tell you the last time I posted a PayPal coupon code - but probably twenty people a day come here from Google looking for them… Sorry to let you down folks… Don’t blame me - Blame Google!)
Yes, I have analytics tracking and I have a good idea of how many visitors I get each day… etc. - but ClustrMaps really seems to think I get a ton of visitors:
Here’s a verbatim copy of an email I just got from them:
Dear ClustrMaps user,
Although we do not want to monitor the ClustrMaps service too heavily, we have noticed that the number of visits per day logged on your site http://ryebrye.com/blog/ by our counter recently was 33970, which exceeds the normal daily allowed limit of 2500.
We try to treat the limit in a very lenient fashion, especially given that there can be local peaks or spikes in internet traffic. However, for anyone going over that limit on a fairly consistent basis, we send out this message.
If it helps put things in perspective: I don’t get even get 33970 visitors in a month - let alone a day… I think they are on crack.
October 6th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
We are terribly sorry about this anomaly - we published a big apology on our newsblog at http://clustrmaps.wordpress.com and have been emailing/autoreplying apologies and offering refunds as appropriate. We know how upsetting a false count (and, worse, a false email) can be! What happened was that the ‘all time total’ was erroneously mapped onto the ‘yesterday 1-day total’ during a separate database problem we encountered. Ouch. Fortunately all totals are preserved, so things should rectify shortly…
We’re on the case! Thanks for bearing with us.
-CJ from ClustrMaps
October 7th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Well Ryan, if your blog didn’t have such crappy CSS, we’d take better care of your Clustr Map. But anyways, I’m sorry. If you want my plane, please take it.
October 7th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
It’s not the CSS that’s the problem. It’s a problem related to the embedded videos and a rendering bug in Firefox, and Firefox only.
View it in a real browser, like Opera, Konquerer, or Safari and you would be fine…
When I get around to it I’m going to slash and burn this blog’s theme anyway and implement a nice new one… When I do that, I will make sure that my new theme (that I’m building from scratch) wont crap out on embedded videos.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Right… whatever