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  "textContent": "\n\nDiving around in Google Analytics for a thing I clicked on the _Active users by Country / Town/City_  report and hello to all 9,000+ of you from the Chinese city of Lanzhou, it's a pleasure to have you here. Um, why are you here?\n\nIt's not just China though, there are visitors from all around the world, check out the top 162 countries ... and yes, I suspect an awful lot of these visits are bots scraping the content for nefarious LLM-type reasons.\n\n[_Data from 1-Jan-2025 to 21-Feb-2026 / Top 40 country list and full spreadsheet follows the images_]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n  1. China: 11688\n  2. United States: 8302\n  3. New Zealand: 6337\n  4. Singapore: 5685\n  5. United Kingdom: 4625\n  6. Australia: 1120\n  7. Canada: 612\n  8. India: 371\n  9. Brazil: 319\n  10. Ireland: 280\n  11. Germany: 244\n  12. Mexico: 242\n  13. Hong Kong: 228\n  14. France: 216\n  15. Vietnam: 213\n  16. Netherlands: 189\n  17. Sweden: 180\n  18. Argentina: 149\n  19. South Africa: 122\n  20. Bangladesh: 110\n  21. Spain: 106\n  22. Iraq: 92\n  23. Philippines: 90\n  24. Indonesia: 89\n  25. Italy: 88\n  26. Pakistan: 84\n  27. Japan: 70\n  28. Poland: 70\n  29. Denmark: 68\n  30. Türkiye: 66\n  31. Russia: 65\n  32. (not set): 65\n  33. Norway: 61\n  34. Malaysia: 60\n  35. Colombia: 59\n  36. Thailand: 59\n  37. Switzerland: 55\n  38. Belgium: 54\n  39. Finland: 54\n  40. United Arab Emirates: 52\n\n\n\n(subscribe/RSS)",
  "title": "Hello To All In Lanzhou / 兰州的各位好",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-21T12:03:28.555Z"
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