Comments on: Not Much Love From Africa?

By: Meathaus Enterprises - Comics, Art, and Inspiration » Everyone Loves Meathaus

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:14:23 +0000

[...] Well at least someone from these countries visited our site once. And they left a little red dot on our Clustrmap. A while back when we installed the map thing, it was clear that we weren’t getting much love from the continent of Africa. But South Africa has made up for that and is carrying the entire continent recently based on a few visits and solid orders for books. The UK has always been a solid competitor in international visits and orders, as has Israel, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Norway has recently joined the gang taking their place along side Belgium, France and Germany as possible future MEathaus powerhouses. But the question remains: Where are the Mongolians? [...]

By: Meathaus

Meathaus — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 15:44:12 +0000

Hey! We got one. On the live map we got a visitor from South Africa. WWWHHHOOOOOO ARRRREEEE YOUUU?????? (that’s me yelling over to there).

By: tomer

tomer — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:56:40 +0000

note how Israel is a huge red dot in the desert.

By: Farel

Farel — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:07:06 +0000

we need some love in alaska too.

By: Chris McD

Chris McD — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:11:10 +0000

I have a feeling it may have something to do with the none too perfect system they have for tracking. Is it possible that many of our Canadian brothers are being tracked via ISPs based in the good ol USA? Wait! Here is a bit from their FAQ:

“A friend of mine from X is not having his visits to my site registered in my ClustrMaps: why?

There may be two reasons for that: (i) the IP of your friend’s computer may be owned by a company registered somewhere else or (ii) the IP is not recognized by the IP -> geo-location translator or it might be mapped wrongly. A typical case when the location is not recognized correctly are dial-up connections; the ISP registers set of IPs for a whole country (and possibly allocates them dynamically to connections), moreover the ISP itself can be a company based in a different country. However for most IPs the translation works pretty reliably.”

Or the other possibility is that we are universally ignored in Canada?

By: scout

scout — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:56:20 +0000

i make up part of that dot, second from the left (in australia)… haza!

props to the dots in the water. hardcore.

“You think that just cos a guy reads comics, that he can’t start some sh*t?”

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:42:05 +0000

Ha! I was just looking at that today and thinking the same thing. And what’s the deal with our Maple Leafed brothers to the north? Canadians love comics, how come they’re leaving us in the cold?