Who are you?

I signed up to Google Analytics recently, a free service which reports on access to your website. And I have to say I've found the results absolutely fascinating. I've been checking in fairly regularly to see what new results are available, an have been impressed with the detail of the data.

Obviously this is a small blog, and not many people visit it, but I'd been curious for a while as to exactly how many people DID visit it. I now know the answer. Since the 7th of June there have been 17 visits to my site. A number of those are going to be me using it to link to other places, but a decent number of them aren't. Google Analytics allows you to drill down on a map a see where your visitors are from, of the 17, 11 are from Melbourne, most are probably me, however, 3 are from Perth, 1 is from Montreal, 1 is from somewhere in SE Asia (but Google was unable to specify exactly where) and 1 is from London (possibly a friend from back home).
So that's kind of interesting. Welcome to our foreign cousins!

The other report that is interesting are the sources of these visitors. 7 came direct, those will be people who've got me book marked, and a number of those visits will be me, possibly all. I got 5 referrals from Blogger.com, which I think is possibly me checking a post after I've published it. I also got 3 from Rods site, cheers mate! The final 2 were from Google, and from there, I can get the search terms used to find my page.
First up
all dressed backed potato
Which alerted me to a typo in one of my Peru posts, as obviously that should be BAKED potato. Strange that someone else made the same typo in their search, and somehow found my site because of it. My page wasn't the first in the list though, so they obviously had to work their way down to me. I wonder what they were after? Baked potato recipes perhaps?
The second search string was
tablets to stop you pooing
Which I guess took them to the post on Peru and the stuff we'd packed. I was a little surprised by that one when it popped up this morning. To the person who found my page from that search term, I sincerely hope you found what you were looking for, and I'm sorry my comments on "tablets to stop you pooing" weren't more informative. Perhaps I should have included some brand names and a location to go to buy them. I can't comment on effectiveness as ultimately I didn't need them.

In total, I've apparently had 7 absolute unique visitors to my site, a number from which I'm sure I can grow... if I can just keep up the pace of posting... Obviously I need some more good search phrases in my posts, and possibly more discussion on pooing...