Sunday, May 23, 2010

Who The Hell Is 173.174.8.168?

This blog has used the Site Meter service (see below) since March 9, 2005. Site Meter supplies a hit counter for this blog that provides the total number of visitors to this blog since that time. The counter, in green-text, is located at the upper left of this page. Not only does Site Meter record visits to this blog, but the service supplies some information about each visitor (NO NAMES!) by IP Address (see below) and City, State, and/or Country of the visitor. An IP Address look up service identifies the ISP (Internet Service Provider) supplying this IP Address:

Road Runner HoldCo LLC
13241 Woodland Park Road
Herndon, VA 20171.

This blogger is getting creeped out. Who is this visitor? If this is (fair & balanced) paranoia, so be it.

[x Wikipedia]
"Site Meter"

Site Meter is a service which provides counter and tracking information for Web sites. By logging IP addresses and using JavaScript or HTML to track visitor information, Site Meter provides Web site owners with information about their visitors, including how they reached the site, the date and time of their visit, and more.

[x Wikipedia]
"IP Address"

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a numerical label that is assigned to devices participating in a computer network, that uses the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing. Its role has been characterized as follows: "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there."

[x Site Meter]
173.174.8.168

May 22, 2010 - 9:49:26 am - 1 page visit
May 21, 2010 - 5:15:27 pm - 4 page visits
May 21, 2010 - 4:57:39 pm - 1 page visit
May 21, 2010 - 12:51:11 pm - 2 page visits
May 21, 2010 - 12:50:52 pm - 2 page visits
May 21, 2010 - 12:48:02 pm - 3 page visits
May 21, 2010 - 11:57:13 am - 1 page visit
May 21, 2010 - 11:05:56 am - 4 page visits
May 21, 2010 - 10:11:56 am - 1 page visit
May 21, 2010 - 9:16:19 am - 1 page visit
May 21, 2010 - 7:24:46 am - 1 page visit

Yada yada yada.

The first visit to this blog from this IP address occurred on May 13, 2010, with a similar visit-pattern since that time.

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