Your website open to the World

It is called the World Wide Web for a reason, that reason is that anyone in the world can find your website (unless you are at the mercy of state censorship). Its amazing to see how many people in different countries find your website and look at it. If you have a local UK services type company website you don’t want people in other countries than the UK looking at your website as its a waste of bandwidth and means you may have poor a SEO setup. If you are a pure UK company you typically have a .co.uk domain and if you have a .com domain you set your Google Webmaster Tools to have the UK as its primary market.
If you have a .com domain and you are hoping that everyone in the world will want to see your website then the stats you can retrieve from your Google Website Stats package can give you  the breakdown of countries that visit your site. The following is a brief snapshot of country visitors to a dive centre’s website during October 2010
1.United Kingdom 111
2.United States 16
3.Thailand 33
4.Australia 18
5.Philippines 12
6.Germany 10
7.Netherlands 9
8.Malaysia 8
9.Singapore 8
10.United Arab Emirates 7