March 2010

Dream of Things Around the World

Hello Friends! I recently received a note from Maria Duffy of Dublin, Ireland, inquiring about a submission. I answered Maria’s question, then I thought to myself, “Wow, people in Ireland have heard about Dream of Things!” (By the way, thank you to Vanessa O’Loughlin of the INKwell Writers’ Workshops in Ireland for mentioning Dream of Things in Inkwell News.)

Maria’s note got me curious, so I looked at Google Analytics. Turns out a lot of people around the world have heard about Dream of Things. In fact, since the Dream of Things website launched on Thanksgiving Day 2009, 5,418 visitors from 77 countries speaking 31 different languages have visited the site. I think that’s very cool! And the 665 fans of the Dream of Things Page on Facebook include folks from every continent except Antarctica. Again, pretty cool.

A few interesting tidbits…about 80% of visitors are from the United States, followed by Canada and the United Kingdom. Rounding out the top ten: Philippines, Australia, Ireland, India, Japan, Germany and Bangladesh.

Who spends the most time on the site? People from South Korea average nearly 16 minutes per visit. (I suppose it could just be a slow Internet connection.)

Who visits the most pages per visit? A visitor from Hong Kong visited 11 pages. (I didn’t even know there were that many pages on the site.)

Most surprising visitors: I had a visitor from Myanmar/Burma, which is a little surprising—until I recall that my friends, John and Julie Rember, were recently in Thailand and had to cross the border into Myanmar on a Visa technicality. There were also visitors from Nepal and Mongolia.

For a complete list of countries and visitors, see Dream of Things Visitors.

Now I’m even more curious…where are you from and how did you hear about Dream of Things?