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International Visitors

For a little while now Hitslink has been producing a map showing the locations from which visitors to our site have been arriving. This feature is limited to 200 visitors and so it covers between a half and two thirds of a days worth. Here is today's map:



As you would expect North America and Europe are the predominant sources but it is delightful to see how we reach some of the more isolated parts of the globe.

Today also saw a new development. A merchant on e-bay has made a link from his Nut Cracker Suite Musical Box product picture to our streaming page for the March from the suite. I suppose that this can only be seen as an endorsement for us since our product is demonstrated and made available for purchase although it is a bit cheeky not to seek permission. We will watch this development with interest - perhaps a visible credit is going to far but some alt text to strengthen the value of the in bound link might be something to go for together with some advice about HTML to use to avoid clicking away from their page such as [target="_blank"] or a pop-up window.

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