Visitors to this website are coming from countries across the globe, according to a new web app that tracks visitor locations. In the three days that this feature has been active, lifering.org has received more than 1100 visitors. Visitors have logged on to lifering.org from hundreds of different locations in the continental US, from Hawaii and Alaska, and from:
Acacia Ridge, Boondall, Brisbane, Concord, Dolan’s Bay, Gladesville, Hampton Park, Heidelberg, Lysterfield, Melbourne, Moonah, Ormiston, Perth, Rooty Hill, Ryde, Saint Albans, Shenton Park, Surry Hills, Sutherland, Sydnia and Yatala, Australia
Salzburg, Austria
Gomel, Belarus
Brussels and Houthalen, Belgium
Vitoria, Brazil
Barrie, Burnaby, Calgary, Cambridge, Elliot Lake, Goose Bay, Gravenhurst, Halifax, Kamloops, L’Assomption, Lower Sackville, Markham, Mississauga, Moncton, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Parksville, Peterborough, Scarborough, Surrey, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Vernon, Victoria, and Winnipeg, Canada
Beijing, Fuzhou, Putian, and Shenzhen, China
Bogota, Colombia
Brno, Czech Republic
Ballerup, Fredericia, and Odense, Denmark
Unnamed place in Ecuador
Espoo and Hyvinkää, Finland
Kunheim and Vanves, France
Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Hürth, Köln, Moraas, Nürnberg, and Recklinghausen, Germany
Guam
Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Calcutta, Coimbatore, Delhi, Faridkot, Haora, Hyderabad, Jammu, Karimnagar, Kophapur, Kottayam, Lucknow, Madras, Maisuru, Mangaluru, Mumbai, Nagar, New Delhi, Shimla, Surat, Tezpur, and Visakhapatnam, India
Jakarta, Indonesia
Athboy, Ballitore, Cork, Dublin, Kilcock, Limerick, Louth, Mayo, and Waterford, Ireland
Haifa, Ramat Hasharon, Rishon Le Zion, Israel
Gavorrano, Italy
Osaka and three unnamed places in Japan
Selangor, Malaysia
Tijuana, Mexico
Amsterdam and two unnamed places, Netherlands
Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand
Leon, Nicaragua
Muscat, Oman
Angeles, Cavite, Cebu, Iloilo, Makati, Manila, Paranaque, Pasig, Quezon, Quezon City, and two unnamed places in the Philippines
Cracow, Poland
Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Velikiy Novgorod, Russia
Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, and Pretoria, South Africa
Barcelona, Malaga and Torrelavega, Spain
Stockholm and Stocksund, Sweden
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Istanbul, Turkey
Kiev and Poltava, Ukraine
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Aberdeen, Aldershot, Aylesbury, Bathgate, Belfast, Bicester, Bristol, Bromsgrove, Buckingham, Cambridge, Cardiff, Chertsey, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guildford, Heywood, Kingston Upon Hull, Littlehampton, London, Luton, Maidenhead, Manchester, Methven, Newtownabbey, Nottingham, Oldham, Richmond, Ringwood, Rotherham, Sant Neots, Sheffield, Southampton, Southend-on-sea, Tattenhall, Telford, Weymouth, Worthing and four unnamed places in the United Kingdom; and
Hanoi, Vietnam.
The visitor map can be accessed from the website’s Start Page, in the right sidebar, under the heading “Who’s Online.” Click on “Map of Visitors.” The map from the first three days is below.
This kind of mapping program can work because web hosting servers record every visitor’s IP address. The IP address is similar to a telephone number used by Internet sites. A reverse lookup database provides a rough estimate of the visitor’s location. Because of numerous variations and unknowns, the estimate can’t pinpoint the location more precisely than the city, and even that may be off; but on the whole and on the average, IP addresses provide a reliable indication of a visitor’s general location.
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