It looks like your site might be useful for planning hikes and such except that I can't figure out how to get it to work. I think it's probably about 50% that I don't know how it works and 50% that the UI needs some polish, but besides that trailbehind looks like a good idea.
I agree. There should be something indicating what this thing is, if nothing else a tag line that hints at what it is. I'm still not entirely sure what this is supposed to do.
By having a landing page that isn't just a giant map. You need to explain what your site does. As it is, I suspect most of your visitors will arrive and depart almost immediately.
We do have a bounce rate of about 40%, which is something we're trying to manage. I think part of that is not knowing what to do on the site, and part of it is because the site is really slow (until tomorrow when we launch the new version).
We're thinking about switching from a giant map home page to having the "Geo News" (in the main menu) as our home page, once the news page is polished.
We'll do that eventually... it's just another feature filed in our bug tracker. It's not clear how valuable that is though, particularly on a US level.
The first goal for personal geo-location will be to show foreign visitors a world map.
Yeah, right now it's running off of Django's dev server, forwarding a port on my laptop through an SSH tunnel to my production server. So it's a little slow :)
I'm surprised it hasn't crashed under all of this traffic actually, since Django's dev server isn't threadsafe.
