where on earth are the cocos islands?
Again, I’m inspired by a post on Kazza’s site. She, in turn, was inspired by Dave. Kazza posted a list of the country of origin of visitors to her website and so reminded me that my hosts provide a stats reports for this domain. I’d forgotten it was there.
As this domain hasn’t been going for very long, I haven’t got much of interest to report:
| Rank | Country | % of Hits |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | U.S.A | 56% |
| 2 | U.K. | 42% |
| 3 | Italy | 0.40% |
| 4 | New Zealand (Aotearoa) | 0.40% |
| 5 | Australia | 0.33% |
| 6 | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | 0.31% |
| 7 | Greece | 0.21% |
| 8 | Netherlands | 0.18% |
| 9 | South Africa | 0.02% |
| 10 | Taiwan | 0.02% |
Except for those mysterious hits from the Cocos Islands. I wonder who that could be?
Of course, my key aim in life is get a hit from someone sitting in the desolate icy wastes of Antarctica. That would be cool beyond belief.
kazza says:
heh yeah makes you wonder hey?
Do you have any more detailed logs to find out how they came there and what they were looking for?
I’m surprised it’s so low from Australia as my feed reader is constantly pinging you .. although I don’t think I have reverse dns setup, so I’d be one of those “unknown” hits heh
kazza spoke at 21:29 UTC on June 15th, 2005 link
Richard says:
I think the reason the USA is so high is because of all the hits from bots. They all seem to be American for some reason. And most of the UK hits are from me.
Incidentally, I notice from my atlas that the Cocos Islands are Aussie territory - you haven’t got your internet connection cheap through the overseas territories have you…?
Richard spoke at 22:13 UTC on June 15th, 2005 link