Down at the bottom of my sidebar, you might have noticed a small map of the world. It shows where my visitors come from. By clicking the map on, you’re taken to a larger map and a real-time feed of visitors to this site and what city/country/state they come from. I sat here watching this thing last night for about an hour. It’s a good way to pass the time when you’re bored, especially if you’re still impressed by the fact people from other countries visit your website, like I still am. It looks like I get on average a new visitor every 2-3 minutes or so during the day, and at night, about 3-5 (most of my visitors are from the US). I have no idea how many people browse this site at one time though.
The plugin is easy to install too. By providing your site URL, you’re given a JavaScript and non-JavaScript HTML code. If the JS code doesn’t work on your site, use the other one, like I did. Copy the code, then go to Text under Widgets and you can drop it in there. That’s all. You don’t have to provide an email, and the small map and its data is free. I also like the fact that unlike similar traffic-monitoring plugins, the real-time list is not visible on this site, nor are reader URLs or other information provided, so there’s no violation of reader privacy.
If you have a blog and want this widget in your sidebar too, you can get it here:
http://www.clustrmaps.com
Sorry if this sounds like an ad (it isn’t), I’m just having a lot of fun with this thing.
Lucky Otters Haven 
That is so cool!
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Isn’t it though?
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Cool!
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Reblogged this on itsgoodtobecrazysometimes and commented:
This is very funky 🙂
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It sure is! It’s provided me with hours of entertainment.
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🙂
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How interesting! I am such a novice at these things and I am amazed at what people can do!
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It’s very easy to install and definitely worth it.
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I just figured out how to set my time zone for my blog. That was tonight’s accomplishment.🐣
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I never did figure that out. Mine has been 4 hours off since I started it over a year ago. 😳
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I went to settings, and I scrolled up until I found a city in the same time zone. The strange thing is, my phone and the computer had different time zones, so if I posted to close together, one on the phone and the other on the computer, the order got confused. Very strange.
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Ha! Maybe I’ll try what you did, but I’ve gotten kind of used to it always being 4 hours later in WordPress time, haha.
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It’s all good!
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