Victorian Places (2)

Ok, not much interest in my quiz (ahem) but here's the answer ... the astonishingly brilliant Google Analytics (no, I have no business relationship with our Google overlords; all hail!). It's a tool for webmasters to measure website hits. I started running it a few days ago, and the list yesterday was the top 50 cities from which people look at www.victorianlondon.org. I guess professional web people have had this stuff for ages, but for the likes of me, it's astonishingly detailed ... and a reminder that nothing on the web is truly anonymous.

The mapping function, although only at country/US state level (I think) is brilliant too. I now know that - in the last five days - Wyoming is the US state least interested in Victorian London


whereas New Yorkers are (relatively) fascinated by Victorian history:


even if the resulting image looks unfortunately like a missile strike on New York state. Here's to you, Manhattan. (And yes, I know I'm ignoring the differential in their population; let me dream!).

The figures are still quite low - I have about 1500 visitors a day, so it will take a while to get the full pictutre, but I'm already spending too much time on this ... I'm not the first to point this out, but the internet is brilliant.

Victorian Places?

QUIZ - what does the following ranking show? Why is London at the top, and Kokomo (as in 'Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go ...') above Paris. Ah, mes amis, the shame of it.

It's a frivolous answer, as random lists go, so don't think too hard. It relates to the last few days, since I discovered something pretty amazing on the Internet, which I should have discovered ages ago.

There is a prize ... if you're on Twitter, twitter the answer with tag @victorianlondon and the first correct answer gets a free copy of London Dust, my first novel (that's if you want a copy, of course - I won't lit-spam your home without some encouragement). If no-one twitters - and it's quite likely - then answers in comments below will suffice!

Here's the list:-

1.	London
2.	Dublin
3.	New York
4.	Manchester
5.	unknown
6.	Birmingham
7.	Sydney
8.	Melbourne
9.	Glasgow
10.	Bristol
11.	Edinburgh
12.	Wembley
13.	Belfast
14.	Leeds
15.	Sheffield
16.	Brisbane
17.	Los Angeles
18.	Reading
19.	Cambridge
20.	Nottingham
21.	Luton
22.	Oakland
23.	Auckland
24.	Oxford
25.	Newcastle upon Tyne
26.	Kokomo
27.	Paris
28.	Liverpool
29.	Salisbury
30.	Blackwood
31.	Chicago
32.	Milton Keynes
33.	Toronto
34.	Cardiff
35.	Salford
36.	Edgbaston
37.	York
38.	Perth
39.	Sale
40.	Basildon
41.	Madrid
42.	Leicester
43.	Virginia Beach
44.	Boone
45.	Coventry
46.	Moscow
47.	Rotherham
48.	San Francisco
49.	Chatham
50.	Wolverhampton