Display Web Traffic on a World Map

Programming Snapshot – Mapping Web Traffic

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To discover where the traffic to his website comes from, Mike Schilli displays it live on an interactive world map.

As soon as I publish a new edition of my USA blog and send out a mass email to my readers, I tend to stare intently at the web server's logfile (Figure 1). This is because I want to see where the traffic is coming from. Instead of looking at long lines of Apache logs, though, I prefer to rest my tired eyes on the colorful graphic in Figure 2. It shows me from which countries people are looking at the current issue in real time on a world map.

Figure 1: The web server records the IP addresses of incoming requests in the logfile.
Figure 2: An interactive world map provides live data in the browser.

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