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  pacificmelody · Member · Mar 29, 2022 at 3:38 am

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  I’ve noticed recently that almost all my visitors are from the U.S., where formerly I had a nice mix of U.S. and other countries, plus I have friends in other countries who I know read my posts and I’m not seeing them.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 29, 2022 at 7:59 am

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  Hi there,

  I assume your question here is why aren’t you seeing visitors from other parts of the world?

  To which the answer is we have no way of knowing. All we do in this case is log the countries visitors to your site come from, based on the IP address of the computer/phone they’re using to visit your site.

  If someone is using a browser add-on to prevent this type of geolocation tracking, in which case we might still record the view, but it won’t bump a country stat. If someone is using a VPN or proxy to route their internet traffic through a different country, that country will show in your stats rather than the actual country someone is located in. It’s also possible for someone to block us from detecting them for stats purposes at all, in other words, someone can visit your site and read your posts and that visit won’t reflect in stats at all.

  That said, I took a look at your stats and don’t see anything wrong here. Looking at your monthly stats at https://wordpress.com/stats/month/pacificmelody.wordpress.com?startDate=2022-03-01 I can see several non-US visits during the month. And if I compare March to your other higher-traffic months, like January and February, or January 2021 and March through June 2021, they all show a much higher number of US views compared to other countries. So historic data points to this being a normal traffic pattern for your site.

  You write in English, and you mostly post during US daytime hours, which also makes it normal that the majority of your traffic will come from there – blogs get the most traffic immediately after a post is published, so your traffic will come from the countries that are awake at that time of day, and where people speak the language you’re posting in. Search engines like Google also take the time a post is published into consideration, which means your posts are more likely to appear in online searches for people in the US, than, for example, people living in Europe.

  Let us know if you have any questions about this.