In honor of St. Patrick’s Day I wanted to try and find an inGraph having something to do with Ireland. Grepping around a bit yielded some defunct Cedexis dashboards, some defunct holden Catchpoint dashboards, and a handful of IDB2 dashboards…also - you guessed it - defunct. (Side Note: I’d be curious to know what percentage of existing dashboards are actually funct at this point; my suspicion is that they’re in the minority.)
Then I came across this lil guy, tracking l1proxy traffic for the “big three” religions - Catholic, Muslim, and Hindu - presumably for the purposes of understanding what the impact to site traffic looks like on major religious holidays.
“But Cliff,” you might ask, “surely l1proxy doesn’t know from religion.” And you would be correct (thank God, Allah, and Vishnu). But what l1proxy can do is infer the originating country of the request via geoip lookup, which can then be grouped by countries with predominantly Catholic/Muslim/Hindu demographics.
In short, it is a proxy for a proxy for a proxy. (See what I did there?)
The list of predominantly-Catholic countries being used is: Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Italy, Mexico, Spain, and - you guess it! - Ireland.
It’s perhaps worth noting that a Northern Irishman of a certain age might take umbrage at being placed into a Catholic bucket. My apologies. My intent isn’t to…err…umber anyone, I’m just reporting on what I’ve found.
So! After fiddling a bit with a test dashboard to remove the other countries, here we have it - site traffic coming from IP addresses that indicate the requests originated from somewhere in Ireland:
Nifty.
Happy St. Patty’s Day, folks. Sláinte!