The other night, I set up a web stats site to monitor traffic on my blog. At first I just wondered how many people visit my blog on an average day, but now I am intrigued by all the other data that's gathered.

If you clicked on a link on another page to get to my blog I can see that. For example, someone in Roanoke gets to my blog via a link on Corey's blog. I get other traffic from Jason's blog, Jeramie's blog and one hit from Rebecca's blog.

Another cool thing is that I can see what keywords lead someone to my blog. For example, I now know that if you search for "shannon smith" in google my blog turns up at the bottom of the first page. You can also search for rob bell nooma clips, nooma critics, or do i follow my heart and not my head and you get a link to my blog.

I can also see what browser people use to view my blog. I am proud to say that Firefox is at the top of the list, followed by IE7, IE6, and Safari comes in at a disappointing fourth. Safari is most likely at the bottom because all my mac owning friends are also Google Reader users and those views are not calculated.

The last cool thing that I'll mention is that I can see where people are that are visiting my blog. 95% of my visitors have been from the US, but I have had one from South Africa, one from Germany, some from the UK, and some from Canada.

Oddly most of my international visitors have hit the same page, which is found by searching for baby's mama on google images. My beautiful bride's picture is the second image that comes up. She beats out Paris Hilton, Matt Leinart's baby's mama, and Shenelle(Jay Z's baby's mama).

So, I just thought I would let you know that even though you do not leave comments, I know you are out there. I felt I had a moral obligation to let you know that Big Brother is watching you.

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