1. Most of my readers access Hearing Informed through Internet Explorer. I think Internet Explorer has got to be one of the lousiest browsers, but I better make sure my site works with the highly dysfunctional browser because my readers use it. Firefox, my preferred browser, comes in at a close second. I wish more users would use that browser because it works better.

2. After the United States, I receive the most number of visits from Denmark. People of Denmark make up whopping 16% of my readership right now. Thank you Denmark. The people of Denmark seem to care about their hard of hearing and deaf communities. They are also host country of Widex, a company that I’ve written about a couple times. I wear Widex Passion Hearing Aids. A significant percentage of readers from Denmark are coming from the Network Location “Widex”.

3. One of my most popular articles right now is titled “Which Hearing Aids do you Wear”. This tells me that I should make an effort to involve my readers in my posts with a greater frequency. Like any community, people want to know what others are doing and learn from them.

4. Another one of my most popular posts is “My Ear Cleaning Story”. This story is written by my friend Jeff Roth and it’s the only post that isn’t written by me. What do I take from this? I think I ought to invite more guests and readers to write posts and I should do the same for other sites.

5. Many of my readers are from the Deaf community. As it stands now I’m not really a part of that community. Being “hard of hearing” is really an altogether different life experience than being Deaf. This is why I was always annoyed, when growing up and visiting my Pediatrician: He always said something along the lines of “Oh, so your Deaf?” while glancing at my chart. I would always answer back, “No, I’m hard of hearing but I can hear you.” There’s an important delineation there. What do I take away from this? I need to reach out to the Deaf community and learn from them.

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