Removing Clutter from the Sidebar - ClustrMaps
By Bernie on 05 Mar 2008:
I think I have too much clutter in my sidebar. After almost two years I will be removing Clustrmaps which graphically displays the locations of visitors to my site. Here is the full map which depicts 1,193,472 visits from 4 Apr 2007 to 1 Mar 2008. If you click on any continent you will see more detail.
When I first started blogging in January of 2006 it was interesting to note where visitors were coming from. Readers came from every continent, every country, and every major city except for China which banned me a year ago.
In the coming weeks I will be removing more buttons, widgets and things from my sidebar until I am happy with the loading time of my blog. I will place these items in my sidebar graveyard: Flairs, Buttons, Wizbangs, and Widgets. Moving certain buttons from the sidebar will result in the loss of ranking for my blog url since the counter will no longer be tabulating readers, but when I started blogging I didn't know which ones I wanted to keep. At present there are way too many counters and blog ranking services in my sidebar and I have enough readers now that I no longer need to pimp my site with these services.
Hopefully, this housecleaning will result in a more pleasant visit for my dear readers.
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