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I’ve alluded to this before in this article on WiAU (WiFi in Australia), but Google Analytics (GA; or other similar traffic analysis package) is really handy. I have analytics installed on all the sites that I run. When I was looking at the GA report on WiAU, I noticed that about a third of my traffic was coming from a site called Free Sydney Wireless (FSW). I implemented a few more super-technical IT discovery protocols (typing: http://www.freesydneywireless.com/ into a web-browser) and discovered they had done a little writeup on WiAU! Needless to say, I was stoked!

Now, I should additionally mention that before this little discovery I had received an email from a guy about some MESH-related projects he was working on. He actually mentioned FSW in his email. I hadn’t thought anything of it at the time but once I realised there had been a write up and a degree of traffic coming to WiAU from the userbase it all started to piece together.

The end game is that I wouldn’t have known of the writeup today if it hadn’t been for GA as I’d no notification of its existence with the exception of a casual reference to the site in an email. Unfortunately I’m not one for picking up on subtleties so a big ‘traffic analysis’ hammer in the face was something I might just notice, and was just the call I needed.

Now, I would like to let everybody on the internet know that my mother is actually pretty tops. Since I’ve come back from the UK she has been a veritable champion and been there for me and helped me get back on my feet back here in Australia.

Talking about my mum might seem to be a bit of a diversion from the post’s original content, but it isn’t as out of the blue as it might first seem. The reason I am mentioning this is because today is her birthday (I won’t divulge her age on account of my very occasional gentlemanly tendencies) so a BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY MUM!!!

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