May 2002 was the first month of "normal" operations for this site, with search engines driving visitors to the site during the whole month. What follows is a short report of web site statistics, search engine queries and a few comments from readers! Obsessive fans of christian-sauve.com, rejoice and read!
1. Numbers!
My prickly "urchin" web stats engine tells me that…
Report for: christian-sauve.com, May 2002 Total Visitors - 3,144 Total Pageviews - 7,204 (Corrected total: 4,166) Total Hits - 16,361 Total Bytes Transferred - 182.4MB Average Visitors Per Day - 101.41 Average Pageviews Per Day - 232.38 (Corrected Average: 134) Average Hits Per Day - 527.77 Average Bytes Transferred Per Day - 5.885MB
Numbers have roughly doubled since April, which only serves to show you the power of modern search engines. Most impressive!
Given that the numbers above contain both some images and the site’s .css file, a corrected number is closer to 4166 pageviews, or an average of 134 pageviews per day.
Our top ten most popular public HTML pages were
Page - Hits www.christian-sauve.com/index.html - 194 www.christian-sauve.com/reviews.html - 134 www.christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm - 99 www.christian-sauve.com/texts/amazon-bookmarklet.htm - 93 www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2000.htm - 88 www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1999.htm - 86 www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1996.htm - 77 www.christian-sauve.com/francais/sff-1997.htm - 66 www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm - 65 www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1998.htm - 60
which probably means something about the popularity of movie reviews on the web. (Keep reading the "keywords" section, and you’ll notice a few correlations.)
Our top five sources of referrals were
Sources - Hits google.com/search - 2111 yahoo.com/bin/query - 1099 www.google.ca/search - 392 www.google.fr/search - 148 www.google.de/search - 60
Once again, the Google giant triumphs.
Lower down the list, I was fascinated by the presence of five hits coming from "livejournal.com/talkread.bml", a blogger-type site. Naturally, the format of the site makes impossible to find the link back to my site but it must mean that someone out there is reading. Somewhere…
2. Ooh! Reader comments!
(To protect readers and innocents alike, I will maintain anonymity from all correspondents, except in the case of good comments from friends, in which case I will assign all credit to them. They rock.)
Eric Laforest pings, bzzps and corrects:
You mention Whipping Star as by Brian Herbert.
I recall it as by Frank.
Too true. Fixed.
Someone wrote:
Because it’s only action stuff that I use in the future. It particularly functional useful to know about bondage and secrecy.
Honest to goodness, I can’t even begin to parse that comment. Sounds vaguely kinky, which makes it even more bizarre. I’m filing this one under "huh?"
On the positive side, though, this note has finally motivated me to implement the long-awaited "referrer" field on my comments page. At least now I’ll know to which page my readers are referring.
Another reader comments:
hello, i read your review on hms unseen and can’t disagree with you about that one, the thing that concerns me is your blow to dale brown’s b-52 stories. i have read several of his books and find his novels to be very enjoyable. they appeal to me especially because of their deep roots in the aviation world.
Yay! First negative comment!
One one hand, well, I can’t say enough bad things about Patrick Robinson’s HMS Unseen, except that I’ll buy his next book just to see how bad he can get.
On the other hand, while I haven’t been all that enthusiastic about Dale Brown’s latest books, I thinks that I have made it very clear elsewhere that I used to think very highly of him. Only his last few novels have been stale and repetitive; his first books are still some of the finest techno-thrillers ever written.
3. Search Queries Oddities
-Our biggest success stories
>isbn lookup (50) >isbn number lookup (7) >lookup amazon isbn >bookmarklet français
To reiterate from last month: My "Amazon Bookmarklet" page was designed to fulfill a perceived lack of ISBN lookup tools on the web. I’m glad to see that I’m not quite alone…
>free movie screenings (11) >free movie tickets (11) >free movie preview tickets (3) >free movie sneak preview tickets (2) >how to get free movie screenings (2) >advance movie screenings in premiere >advance movie tickets >free advance movie screenings >free movie screening tickets (2) >free movie ticket >free movie tickets ottawa (2) >free tickets to movie screenings >tickets for test screenings >how to get into advance movie screening >how to get sneak preview movie tickets >attend movie advance screenings >preview movie tickets
Bein oui. Free stuff is popular on the web. Call the newpapers.
-We(b) surfers appreciate the female form
>kendra torgan (7) >françoise yip nude (6) >roselyn sanchez nude (4) >patricia pearcy nude (3) >françoise yip (2) >piper perabo nude (2) >film hexed claudia christian pictures naked >erika eleniak under siege nude >tia carrere nude films >sarah silverman nudity >penelope cruz's haircut >brigitte wilson >holly hunter nipple >jennifer lopez the cell dvd nude shot >rene russo thomas crown backside >natalie portman undressed >thora birch kindergarten cop
Aside from Holly Hunter, I can’t say there’s a bad-looking choice in the bunch… wait a minute; what am I saying? WHY CAN’T YOU RESPECT THESE WOMEN AS ACTRESSES, YA PERVS?
-It’s not just the boys, girls.
>candid shots david duchovny >jet li celebrity caricatures
So we’re an equal-opportunity perversity dead-end. Oh joy.
-Christian can’t spell
(In which our bad, bad webmaster is taught the correct spelling of words by horny web perverts stumbling on his site. Hey, it happens.)
>yasmine bleech (3)
"Baywatch" and BASEKETBALL inflatable star Yasmine Bleeth, of course. Embarrassing #9 ranking on Google, but not nearly as embarrassing as the #1 ranking, a whole fan site dedicated to "Yasmine Bleech"
>lisa bonnet naked (2)
"Lisa Bonet": beautiful black actress, ex-wife of Lenny Kravitz, Cosby show alumni and supporting player in HIGH FIDELITY. Only the first and the last has any relevance on christian-sauve.com, once you get past the pesky little "bonnet" misspelling.
>joanna brewster
This one took me by surprise: Nascent co-star of THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS is named "Jordanna Brewster" and not, well, the above. Given that I still hope that she will eventually call me back, I will never make this mistake again.
>singer allyiah >aalyiah evidence plane crash
Oh, like you could spell "Aaliyah".
>josh harnet picture >othello josh harnet
Josh "Hartnett"… gaah…
>ryan phillipe nude
Ryan "Phillippe". Bla
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>men's underwear dan ackroyd
Misspelling "Aykroyd" is surprisingly common on the web. Go Google and check it out!
>gay dewon sawa
How could I ever mis-spell "Devon"?
>Admusen (2)
Referring to famed Norvergian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, of course… ahem…
>moulin rough
I plead not guilty on this one…
-That’s my name!
>sauve (6) >Christian Sauvé (5)
Yay! People are looking for me!
>sauve.com (2) >www.sauve.com (2)
Once again, I manage to swindle those sauve.com cybersquatters out of two hits! Ha!
-Places I go, people I know
>rockland ontario
Hometown rules!
>orleans cineplex odeon 3 >ottawa movie theaters 2 >cineplex odeon in south keys ottawa time schedule >sommerset theatre ottawa >south keys cinema ottawa sound
Ottawa-area theaters.
>endroits a visiter ottawa >parliament hill ottawa paranormal >hobos in ottawa >nanotech ottawa
Some local color.
>karine sauvé (2)
Heya sister.
>timna gorber (2)
Ex-colleague.
The last two queries give me an idea: If people routinely ego-surf for their name, and if I put up a "What Ever Happened To?" page asking what happened to X, Y and Z from school/work, wouldn’t this be an effective honey-trap to passively make contact with lost classmates/colleagues?
-Those other Christians make me laugh
>christian movie reviewers (5) >top 100 christian books (3) >christian book reviews (2) >christian mimes (2) >good christian movies (2) >christian book critic >christian booked called e.d.g.e. >christian essay on terminator 2 >christian films >christian free webspace no ad >christian movie criticism >christian movie review for piranha >christian movie reviews fast and the furious >christian quotable phrases >free funny christian narration >recommended canadian christian web hosting
As I’ve said before; the hazards of sharing your name with a major world religion…
>christian slater and nude scene
I won’t worry until I start seeing "Christian Sauvé and nude scene." At that point, I’m going commercial. Speaking of which…
>artistic nudity christian
Your guess is as good as mine.
-I swear, there’s got to be a class project at the root of all these requests
>bernard lenteric (3) >bernard lenteric la nuit des enfants rois (2) >resumé livre la nuit des enfants rois (2) >bernard lentéric la nuit des enfants-rois resume >resume des livre de bernard lenteric >resume livres de bernard lenteric >résumé bernard lenteric >résumé bernard lenteric la nuit des enfants rois
(Update: Answering a desperate request for explanation on a mailing list I belong to, an European reader rightfully points out that the book is far too grim to be used in school, but there seems to be an upcoming film version of the novel in the works, which probably explains the interest.)
-Cultural Zeitgest: Movies
>kirsten dunst >kirsten dunst deleted nude scenes >kirsten dunst spider man rain revealing >spider-man nanotechnology >which movies does williem dafoe play in
Can’t you tell that SPIDER-MAN came out in May 2002?
>amélie poulin soundtrack (2) >soundtrack amélie poulin (2) >amelie montmartre quotes >amelie poulin movie book >amelie poulin subtitles >fabuleux destin d'amelie poulin video
Can’t you tell that AMELIE POULAIN is now out on DVD?
-Hey, I’ve been to New York!
>amc 25 theater >applebee's restaurant 42nd street manhattan >strand annex >wall street bronze bull poster >nyc union square sign above virgin
Let’s see; travel, have fun, see the world, get more hits on my web site. Where’s the catch?
-This ain’t an MP3 site
>frank sinatra new york new york mp3 >welcome to new york city rap song >the lovin spoonful summer city mp3 >spoonful mp3 summer in the city >2 unlimited techno biographies
One of these days I will simply upload my master Winamp playlist…
-About ze movies
>reviews by martial arts purists against kung fu sequences in crouching tiger hid >road film almost famous >waking life >the commitments conclusion movie >the cyberstalking movie soundtrack >the legend of the flying swordsman soundtrack credits >the mis en scene for the movie untouchables >the names and brands of cars from the movie fast and the furious >stuart little details unedited >steve martin dead men don't wear plaid quotes >seconds bacchanal >soundtrack blood sport movie van damme >soundtrack mean guns mambo >postmodernism film fight club >postmodernism moulin rouge >scripts of trailers of 13th warrior >movie reviews one flew over the cuckoos nest >movie script of disclosure >movie soundtrack for billy madison starring adam sandler >movie quiz pictures invisible man guess the movies >movie translation mistakes >luc besson taxi 2 dvd cover >grease the movie budget >happy gilmore movie script >harts war vcd cover >hochelaga logo le film >jacobs ladder scriptwriter >mean guns quotes >gattaca theatrical aspects >gattaca themes >fear and loathing in las vegas revives >fear of a black hat quotes >film criticism casablanca >film review-one flew over the cuckoos nest >ending out of sight spoiler lopez >dvd release fear of a black hat >conspiracy enemy of the state >comparing the alonzo to the plot in training day >classical music in ronin figure skating scene >choose life ewan mcgregor speech trainspotting >charlie sheen chris tucker money talks quotes >chasing amy gay representation >breakdown 1997- the movie script >breaking physics in movies event horizon >biodome movie >biodome pauly shore >animation realism satire south park >armageddon steve buscemi parody >artificial intelligence flaws plot holes spielberg >american beauty antagonist protagonist paper >american graffiti the movie and historical comparison >8mm review distressingly >a thin red line script quotes >1997 movie breakdown where was it filmed >buy war named desire canada
-Author! Author!
>gonzalo lira (4) >patrick sauer (2) >tim onosko 2 >roderick thorp (2) >bonar menninger 2 >tom vanderbilt >pellegrino charles >george zebrowski philosophy language >frank camper >john douglas journey into darkness >john varley novel movie >julie czerneda interview >maxine mcarthur >"andrew weiner" sf writer >bill branon >robert j. sawyer bibliographie >isaac asimov writing faults >susan r. sloan book discussion guide >eric s. nylund >eric l harry >discussion of joe r. lansdale >chuck palahniuk canadian >chuck palahniuk survivor quotes >brad linaweaver and dafydd ab hugh >tom clancy writings effect >tom clancys net force ending >historical facts of tom clancys point of impact
-Francophone Science-Fiction and Fantasy
>serena gentilhomme >stanley péan >stanley pean résumé >nelle de vilveq >joel champetier >mathieu daigneault >enfant du cinquieme nord >des resumé de livres de francine pelletier
Hey, I personally know all of these people!
-Books I have reviewed
>a signal to noise quotes eric nylund >autographed books for sale time enough for love robert heinlein >book club questions for lions game nelson demille >rank larry bond books >rendezvous with rama book club discussion >report the cruel sea monsarrat >richard rohmer death by deficit >the grid philip kerr novel character >the handmaids tale plot outline >the first immortal halperin review >the bookman's wake >steinberg the gemini man >sphere michael crichton symbolism >interview w/ the vampire book reviews >michael flynn fallen angels >rogue warrior book review >gun, with occasional music theme >fahrenheit 451 professional reviews >dragon never sleeps >headcrash book >captain jack zodiac review >hot zone by richard preston book reviews >history of mtv >bridget jones diary- book reviews >bridget jones's diary compared with pride and prejudice >book reviews on silence of the lambs >book reviews on the third twin >book reviews - ghost from the grand banks >airframe book reviews >analysis of remake by connie willis >impact of censorship on fahrenheit 451
Interesting, isn’t it? Well, okay, maybe not.
>0-553-10652-x hard cover
I had to look it up, but this does indeed refer to Dan Simmons’ The Rise of Endymion. Who knew that a slavish obsession with ISBNs would one day result in a hit for my web site?
>in lieu of red tape
A reference to Frank Herbert’s Whipping Star; it’s the motto of the Sabotage Bureau, responsible for ensuring that bureaucracy moves at a snail’s pace.
>asimov dead past clarke baxter
Interesting. In their afterword to The Light of Other Days, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter acknowledge a bunch of previous inspirations, but not Asimov’s "The Dead Past". I remarked so in my review, and now it seems as if someone else has figured it out.
>americans invading canada >rudmin bordering on aggression >invasion plans us canada
These three queries all refer to Floyd Rudmin’s Bordering on Aggression, a book detailing historical (and presumably updated) American contingency plans to invade Canada. Interestingly enough, I had a hard time finding information of Rudmin’s book when I was tracking it down. Maybe my review is helping some poor soul out there…
>georgia middle finger swastika >the onions point counterpoint
Two references to The Onion’s Dispatches From the Tenth Circle
>gary taubes (2) >nobel dreams >rubbia unpleasant
References to Gary Taubes’s Nobel Dreams, a non-fiction book partly about a rather unpleasant scientist named Carlos Rubbia.
-Ooh. Kinky.
>underwater femme fatales >theatre and complete nudity >russian leather hitwoman >nude honk kong school girls >free nudist pictures >cheerleading competitions
You never know what you’re going to get… Speaking of which;
-How did I get these hits?
>removing hummer soft top >renaissance pictures xena bloopers >vertical bazooka radiation plot >stretched hummers limos price >south american neck stretching >stupidest car crashes >totalitarism birth control >singing kittens beach >giant styrofoam pen props >sales figures childrens cd-rom >nike air discontinued models 1997 >outside hippie wedding >how easy is it to call a rogue a villain satire 1963 >hippie wedding gown >frontpage 2002 upgrade crack >fancy hairdos >cloning experimental report in canada >childrens book about boy so lazy he had rube goldberg like machines dress him an >burkesville haunted village >advertising techniques of noxema >average cost to make low-budget direct-to-video sci-fi film >bad presidents characteristics
Web surfers search for the darndest things… "Giant styrofoam pen props"? What’s up with that?
-I love doing other people’s essays
>essay cinematography >essay on crimson tide the movies or book >essay on the movie dance with me >essay on tommy clothes >film reviews big daddy essay >movie father of the bride essay >piano movie essay >star ship troopers essay >terminator essay >thriller movies essay
At least the students entering the above queries are honest enough to be looking for essays. Those looking for the queries below, however, have much to answer for if ever they lift stuff verbatim from this web site without proper attributions…
>stranger strange land sex theme society gender >symbolism in slow river by nicola griffith >the future of human history as a science >postmodernist use japanese anime >movie analysis reviews on basic film elements such as production design cinematography >movie armageddon and relation to physics >movie critic related in physics about the film deep impact >movie critics related in laws of physics deep impact >l.a. confidential analyse film genre film noir >malcolm x is full of imagery and symbolism >maltese falcon film and book comparison >martian chronicles significant passages >it is blatant that one of the themes of tale of two cities is self-sacrifice. >how the film se7en can be associated with its genre- modern noir >how does smoking effect the earth's air we breath >harry potter and the sorcerers stone themes, characters, events, settings, style >comparison and contrast of the book a time to kill and the movie a time to kill >compare and contrast of treasure island the book and movie >chapter summaries for congo by michael crichton
-Current events
>sexual harassment church duty to inform
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-You people need help
>spacesuit decompression video clips >octopus attacks nude girl >milked girls art illustrations >fantasy execution and beheading
*shudder*
-Miscellanious
>in 1973 an adorable bunny was chosen to represent what product
That question popped up twice in two days, leading me to speculate some kind of contest. In any case, a quick search revealed that "Nescafe Quick Chocolate Milk" is the correct answer. Just so you know.
>iran's government
One day, I will have to tell you of the time we received an official email from Iran’s government at work. But not today.
>geocities unusable
Interesting. Given that christian-sauve.com owes its very existence to the fact that Geocities is now indeed unusable, I hope I have been able to satisfy that person’s interest.
>1997 richard gere hamster rumor
(Uncontrollable giggling)
>movie joel shumaker should die
Now, now… Destroying the BATMAN film franchise isn’t that much of a hanging offence…
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… bewildered!