Second Thoughts

Tomorrow we’ll be sending out a new batch of Polos. Those of you who have made an order the past few days should receive it in a few days or so.

I was checking the traffic patterns the other day, and I noticed some interesting trends. It is obvious that now that we have started talking about our service, people are paying attention. We are getting lots of referrals from Polish sites, where we have been quite active in promoting, and, of course, is the nationality of the development team. Yesterday, people started popping in from stumbleupon.com, so it seems that they have found us somehow. We’re also getting a few visits from Facebook, where I have created a group for Test Pilots. Still, most people access us by simply entering our URL.

It’s fun to watch the stats. But this also reminds me that I need to work more on configuring Google Analytics so that I can start use the statistics to improve the service. We need to see where people spend most of their time, common usage paths and where things are broken.

But the thing I’ve enjoyed the most the past few weeks is watching the Geo Map Overlay. It shows where our users come from. And I can not help but to be very impressed by the reach of the web. We have users on almost every continent now. It’s not exactly a surprise to me that the Internet is a global phenomenon. But I don’t think I have really appreciated this fact until I checked the map.