I was catching up responding to some comments on my Daily Ink and ended up looking at my blog stats for the year. I seem to have a small, but consistent audience and so to those of you reading… thank you! As I looked at the stats, I notices a consistent pattern for days/months/year:

• Almost 60% Canadian
• Almost 30% American
• 2-3% Australia, United Kingdom, then India and the Philippines (in this order)
• Ireland and Malaysia at around 1% and it would seem visitors beyond that don’t come regularly.

I can name a couple people that keep my international stats up, (thanks Aaron in Australia and Manuel in the Philippines), and while I would have guessed that most of my readers would be from North America, I was surprised to see that stat at almost 90%. So, I went and looked at where my Twitter followers were from and found this nice map:

It matches pretty closely with blog visitors other than a reversal of the US and Canada, and it makes sense that I have a local/Canadian following that would skew the stats in that way. And while I share my blog on LinkedIn and Facebook, it would seem that besides the Canadian slant, there is a good correlation between Twitter followers and blog readers.

It’s fun to look at these kinds of connections and to think about how easy it is now to self-publish and to share thoughts and ideas with the world… and while I’m mostly sharing my thoughts and ideas with North Americans, it seems that even a small daily blog can get around a bit.

Again, thanks for following along!