One of the benefits of self-hosted WordPress is the ability to run Google Analytics. The statistics package on WordPress.com is nice, but in Google Analytics you can get much more in-depth information about your blog visitors.
Here’s a map from Google Analytics, which shows the location of visitors to SMUG during March (click to enlarge):
![smug-is-global The Global Reach of SMUG](https://www.social-media-university-global.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/smug-is-global-300x165.png)
While we definitely have some gaps in countries that have not yet enrolled SMUGgles, it’s neat that we’ve had visitors from every continent except Antarctica.
I’ll have a future post with more about Google Analytics as an advantage of self-hosted WordPress, but when I saw this map I thought it would be fun to share.
Thanks to SMUGgles across the globe for your participation!