Map of recent visitors to Betty's

[Betty]

Remarkably busy at Betty's for the day before Christmas Eve, on a Friday afternoon.

Can we assume a lot of people got the day off today, or are some just slacking off a lot at work & school before the holiday?

Perhaps everybody's squeezing in as much sissy stuff as they can before they get busy with other stuff for the holiday.

Map of visitors to Betty's during the past 40 minutes:

[Betty]

The "active" map at the bottom of all Betty's pages has been reset to zero today. If you scroll to the bottom of our pages you'll see a map with dots. The blinking dots are people currently at Betty's. The other dots are people who have visited Betty's. It used to show all visitors since May 2016. But it got to be just a massive confusing jumble of tons of dots, with hardly any map showing anymore.

I reset the map about an hour ago. So the dots are all the visitors we've had since 11am E.USA time on Feb 1st, 2017. Blinking dots still show people currently here. However if someone is just parked here, reading, listening to a mix, or watching video, & didn't click on anything at Betty's for a couple minutes, their blinking dot will disappear until they click on something again.

We have different spam, bot, & trash filters, now. Some of our pages are on different addresses, domains or servers too. So it will be fun to see how the map dots multiply this time from a fresh start. Last time, it took a few months for the map to be overly cluttered with dots, but over the past 24 hours we've have visits from over 50 countries. So I'm expecting lots of extra dots daily. Some of our regulars only visit a couple times a month, others, a couple times a day.

If you don't see a map on the bottom, your browser settings are wrong or you have a crap browser. Also if you have ad or script blockers, it may be blocking the view. There's a good chance it's blocking a lot of Betty's features & functions too. Many blockers block a set of scripts but do not notice that some of the scripts it's blocking may just be blocking the features or functionality of the site.

Always set an exception in your blockers at Betty's or turn it off. All sites at Buffalobetties.com, Buffalobetties.net, Unclegadget.com, & Pearlcorona.com are Betty's sites. There are no ads, malware, spyware, or nasty scripts at Betty's to block. I built these places myself, they are highly secure, & regularly checked. If there was something bad here, I'd know about it rather quickly.

[Betty]

It only took a few hours for the active map at the bottom of our pages to fill up with dots of visitors from W. Europe & America.

Here's a map of all our visitors during the past half hour -- about 12:45-1:15am E. American time.

Most of W. Europe is asleep or just getting up if they're an early bird. It's already the middle of Thursday in Australia & New Zealand. We never sleep in the USA. We just drink lots of coffee, which keeps us awake & bitchy.

[Betty]

Map of visitors to Betty's during the past 30 minutes (6:45-7:15am E. USA time).

[Betty]

Map of visitors during the past half hour (11:45am-12:15pm E. USA time).

[Betty]

Close-up. Recent visitors to Betty's from Europe during the past 30 minutes.

[Betty]

Close-up. Visitors to Betty's from N. America during the past 30 minutes.

[Betty]

Close-up. Map of visitors to Betty's from the UK during the past 40 minutes.

[Betty]

Map of visitors to Betty's for 30 minutes this morning. About an hour ago 4:45-5:15am E. USA time, & 9:45-10:15am UK time.

I'm still always amazed at the amount of traffic we get in the mornings from the UK. You wouldn't think of a sissy site as one on your morning surfing schedule, but but is. Few of our USA visitors are even up yet, & it's still the middle of the night in California. However, 90% of our USA vistors are from the eastern half of the USA -- mostly east of the Mississippi River. Many of them stay up way past normal bedtime to visit here, so won't be getting up earlier than they have to, or have much time for Betty's early in the morning after spending a late night here.

We hardly get anybody from Europe after 1am European time, while at 1-2am E. USA time we're still getting floods of people from my area. I guess we have more stargazers, & Europe has more early bird-watchers.

Recently we're getting more visits from Australia than from Canada. What's up Canada, have you found somewhere else worth skipping Betty's entirely most of the week? I notice we get a significant amount of people visiting on small portable pocket devices where many of our Canadian friends mostly visit on laptops & desktops. So maybe they're just waiting to get on a big screen than visit much on a pocket device.

I see many on old or low-end pocket devices with only 480x320p resolution on 3.5-4 inch screens. I can see checking a site for updates on something that small, but can't see reading stories, browsing pix, or watching our movies on something that tiny, but many are. The only thing I can think of is that it may be their only device to get online with, or get online privately where friends & family won't know that they are here. I see many of the same people always visiting through a google links rather than save a link to Betty's. So many are visiting secretly, covertly, on portables with limited data limits.

A big attraction of Betty's is that we can deliver a lot of stuff on low bandwidth for people with data limits/caps -- even full movies & music. So it makes sense we'd get more visitors on portables than any of our competitors. I can actually visualize people on the bus or train in London while visiting Betty's on their phone -- our stats support that is happening a lot. I certainly hope you're not driving while visiting here.

People poke fun that we try to keep our bandwidth & file sizes to 1990s standards. But these days people are on portables a lot or rural areas (we travel a lot too), & have to pay dearly by the gigabyte for data usage, or don't have much speed/bandwidth.

One can visit Betty's for hours, watch a movie, & listen to hours of music, & still use up less bandwidth/data than visiting yahoo, facebook, those "bottomless" flickr, tumblr, pinterest, & overloaded Kiss sissy pages just a couple times. And if you have more than one device using your same connection, or at a wifi hotspot, you'll never slow those other devices down by visiting Betty's.

You can watch a full movie at Betty's in at least DVD quality & use up no more data/bandwidth than visiting Facebook or youtube just once!

[Betty]

Oops. I'm mistaken. As of 7:30am E. USA time this morning, most of our users appear to be on regular laptops & desktops right now. Maybe they're on their office or school computers at this hour, rather than commuting with their portable or having breakfast. Most companies, labs, universities, military, & governments still use W7 -- a few still use XP too. A lot of people I know still prefer a laptop or large tablet rather than a pocket device for travel/commuting.

I see for a change, Windows 7 & better browsers are dominating our users this morning, instead of that horrid windows 10 with junky Edge browsers or Explorer. Maybe some of our users actually paid attention to all the blogging I did about that stuff a while back -- or learned on their own after getting screwed & fed up with W10.

At home, my shop gets mostly W10's in to fix, or they bring in their old W7 & W8's to fix as a spare after they got new machine with W10. Ironically, after I get their old W7 working, they use their W10's as a spare, or if it's still under warranty, they return their W10 & demand their money back. A couple weeks ago a girl dropped off her 2009 W7 laptop to restore after getting a new $1500 quad-core DELL laptop with 32gb of RAM & 120gb SSD (Dell is crap, get an HP business computer-- built to last & upgrade). Her old W7 HP laptop was a 2.4ghz dual core with 4gb of RAM, & a 160gb 7200rpm Western Digital drive. After I fixed it up, it ran circles around her new Dell. After 2 days of using her old laptop she returned the Dell for her money back. I cleaned it up too, so everybody thinks her 2007 laptop is her new laptop.

I should have charged more. I did the work in trade for her old broken 2005 single core XP laptop. Got that one all fixed up with W7 too. Works better than it did new, but nobody want to buy something that old with a single core & 32 bits anymore. She's an external foster home for the SPCA (local animal shelter), mostly for their cats -- my kitties came from her. She was on a tight budget & got that new Dell on monthly payments/credit -- Talked into it by fast talking sales hype. You should have seen her jaw drop when she discovered that I made her old 2009 laptop run lots better than her brand new Dell.

I get a kick out of Microsoft's spin on how many got W10. Half of them were forced to get a W10 upgrade on their old computer, & they forced retail stores not to sell any windows machines without W10 on them, so most people didn't have a choice if they were familiar with & needed windows to run their apps. Those millions of numbers for W10 don't include how many didn't keep their W10 unit, or rolled back their old OS. It also don't include that those numbers are for people who just bought a new laptop or portable, but still use their W7 or W8 for their desk, work, or at home.

Visitor device stats during the past 30 minutes: