She Broke My Map

Click photo to enlargeA few weeks back I started playing with the program Google Analytics. What I like most is the variety of reports it makes available. One of my favourites is a world map that places a orange dot on the location of each originating link to my blog. Well, I found out yesterday that it can be rendered totally useless when your hit count goes up.

The 'orange dots' are interactive, when you drag the mouse over them, you see the name of the community and the number of hits from it. Great for targeting a marketing scheme should you so desire. But, if you get too many hits from the same region, it's impossible to read the info anymore. In order for this to happen 3 things are necessary.

They are:
1.'Canada's #1 Blogger', does a link to a post of yours,
2. A good percentage of Her readers will visit,
3. The increased regional hits expand the dot sizes,

You now can't find some of the dots.
Conclusion, the map is broken.

Comments

[pete]

nice map, too bad it's broken....

[Tim]

Been there had that done to me too. Kind of overwhelming is it not. Dissapointing when those dots all disapear in a month or so though....lol

[vf]

could be worse...you didn't get any trolls commenting,eh?...your 15 minutes of fame!

[Coralee]

We wish we all had your broken map.