Hello My Spanish Friends!

Christopher Horrell

Jul 19, 2005

In wanting to follow my site statistics, without getting too deep into it, I just recently installed Shaun Inman’s ShortStat. It’s wonderful little application and it nicely shows recent referrers, repeat referrers, number of hits by browser and platform, and number of visits by Country. And speaking of countries, after running ShortStat since late June it appears that Spain is in my top three with the USA coming way out in front and Canada a distant second.

That was a little surprising.

So hello my new Spanish friends!

Or, more appropriately:

Hola mis nuevos amigos españoles!

Is there anything Google can’t do?

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