Publishing a map of your website's recent visitors

Howard Lake | 22 November 2006 | Blogs

Where do your website visitors come from? You can find out from your server logs, but how about a graphical map of your latest visitors’ locations? Digital Point Solutions is offering this service for free.
Have a look at UK Fundraising’s implementation of this:

Could you see yourself?
As you’ll see, it uses Google Maps.
Don’t be surprised if you’re not where you thought you were. The system is tracking your IP address so in many cases will pick up the location of your Internet Service Provider or your webhost. According to the map, UK Fundraising is based at the southern end of Westminster Bridge in London, which is about 60 miles out.
Still, it will give you at least a good idea of visitors by country.

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.