Foreign Perspectives

Although our sites collect a whole bunch of statistics about the people who drop by, most of the time we pay next to no attention to it other than keeping a vague eye on what’s most popular.

However, in light of our recent contempt of court action we’ve been a little more paranoid about things and were wondering if the hits from Manchester were a prelude to something similar in the same way as all the hits from London turned out to be. So we thought we’d do a little digging…

First off, the Feedjit widget showed up the series of hits from Manchester using a variety of searches but all related to the topic of the above court action. Was that a fan or something else?

Next step was to look at our StatCounter records for one of those searches.We picked a recent one from Feedjit so it was towards the top of the searches recorded. One click on the drill-down icon which brings up the IP address, their ISP, that they’d made 127 visits to our site amounting to over 2 hours of viewing.

Popping the IP address into one of the reverse IP lookup sites which gave us the specific entry for their server. In this case it turned out to be someone’s Sky router so ’tis unlikely to be related to the court action.

Now, whilst we can’t track down the actual physical address of our fan, it is more than enough information to allow that person to be found by the authorities which is probably worth bearing mind….