{"id":15142,"date":"2019-05-02T04:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15142"},"modified":"2019-05-02T06:41:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T10:41:43","slug":"browsers-of-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=15142","title":{"rendered":"Browsers of This Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I am always curious about who visits this blog. I have a small snippet of software that collects information about visitors (in a general but not specific sense) and provides interesting information.<\/p>\n

Before implementation of the European GDPR privacy law, I used to see data on what keywords people were searching and I used those findings to develop posts for this blog. After all, if I knew what information people were searching, I could write about topics searched if the topic fit this blog’s primary focus.<\/p>\n

However, that information is no longer provided due to implementation of this privacy law. Even though it applies only to Europe, its effects span the globe.<\/p>\n

So now I can see…
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\n…what pages visitors are landing on, but not “who” or what they were searching. Besides the usual bots and automated visits that scan my blog for search engines, human visitors are all over the place. I guess if there were a trend, it would be that searches for reviews about cowboy boots, particularly certain brands, are the most visited pages, followed by information about<\/em> cowboy boot fit, function, styles, and materials.<\/p>\n

The trouble is — I can see what pages people land on, but I can’t really tell what they were looking for.<\/p>\n

Another curious data element I found was the types of devices used by visitors. Usually one can tell a device from the type of browser used. So as of May 1 at noon, the last 15,000 page views of this blog were from these browser types:<\/p>\n