I am trying out (as you may have noticed) gVisit as an alternative to ClustrMaps. ClustrMaps may have some quirks but so far it seems much better than gVisit…at least when it comes to geocoding IP addresses. I know I’ve received several hits from Spain, for example, since I set up gVisit. And yet none of these hits has shown up on the map.
My own hits, I believe, are appearing to come from St. Catharines, Ontario (probably because wacky Bell is hard to track — though I think ClustrMaps may also get this one wrong, judging from the big red blob on the map around Toronto). But come on, St. Catharines is 520 km away! Saskatoon caught me by surprise (could be poorly-tracked visitors that I might expect from Alberta, or Manitoba). Victoria is plausible (hello!), San Jose is pretty close (only off by 70 km from where I “know” that hit came from) — Montreal is probably those lovely people who connect to the net using Videotron and check my blog almost every day. Bless them and their high-speed cable…
I should really do my own tracking, but the IP lookup services are either inaccurate, or expensive (I’d probably go with these guys if I were serious about it). It would be fun to mash up my own Google Maps thing — something I might play with in the future if I feel so inspired.
Well, perhaps I have some visitors I didn’t know about! Welcome to the folks (or web-trawlers) from Waco!