ClustrMaps keeps statistics for single Web page, not a whole site, so it’s perfect for a blog’s homepage. Accounts are free as long as you get fewer than 2500 hits a day and once you’ve signed up all you so it place a small bit of code in your template. The results show your visitors plotted out on a world map. This way you can see where your visitors are coming from without having to interpert domains and IP addresses yourself. (My map is in the right column of this page.) Stat reports (shown right) are not overly detailed but enough for my purposes. Maybe I’m stretching the definition of 2.0 a bit here since this isn’t quite a mashup but it’s close. (If they integrated with GoogleMaps I suppose that would make it a true mashup.)
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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