Region data in stats

[Kamphavet]

Occasionally region data for Swedish IP numbers are really off - a city in Lapland may be given as situated in a county 2000 kms further south. Where does the region data come from? Can I report errors to someone?

Rgds
Bjorn

[webado]

All detailed geo data comes from a geo database, updated regularly by Statcounter form a third party provider.

This data, regardless of provider, cannot be totally up to date at all times, since there is a lot of constant movement of IP address blocks among ISP's.

Also the location you get for an IP is not the physical location of the user of that IP but of the ISP datacenter it belongs to - which may well be very far away.

[Kamphavet]

Oh yes, I know adresses refer to the ISP data center,
and that they may move. But to take one example, Haninge has been in Stockholm county for ever, not in Ostergotland county as the stats says. English Wikipedia knows that, so the info is not difficult to come by.

But this is no real problem, I just wondered why some region data seemed to be taken by random pick

Thanks for your reply!

Bjorn Bergstrom

[webado]

Take the ip address and use look it up with whois.sc/ipadddress . Then also try other similar lookups from elsewhere. You'll likely get different resutls.

It's according to the geo-database used.

None of them puts me near where I live, nor even the same province.