I was looking around at other blogs, found a gem, and of course the blog had a widget I thought was great. I don’t have many visitors yet, but I have to admit, I am curious.

Before discussing the widget, I would like to point any readers to the site where I saw it, the Langwitches blog. In the site’s own description, Langwitches:

…includes standards, ideas, projects, tutorials, and software reviews. The goal is to encourage foreign language and ESL teachers to learn and experiment with technology and at the same time, become comfortable enough to expand their teaching methodology to include different kinds of technologies into their classrooms.

I may not be an ELL or foreign language teacher, but the site is very rich in technology resources.

So, what is the almost scary widget that I found there?

FEEDJIT

If you hadn’t noticed, it was the live feed on the left that told you are here. It’s not personal information, just what location visitors are in and what link they followed to come here.

Feedjit’s live traffic feed shows statistics on your website in real-time.

It shows:

Feedjit widgets are updated in real-time. Your traffic feed is updated as each visitor arrives on your site. The update occurs before the widget loads which means that each of your visitors can see their own location displayed.

How frequently is the data updated?

What does the live traffic feed do?

• Which city and country your visitors are in
• Which website they arrived from, if any
• Which page they visited on your website
• Which external link they clicked to leave your site, if any