It was business as usual this month for christian-sauve.com: Here’s a selection of the highlights!
1. Mmm. Numbers…
My Prickly "Urchin" web stats engine tells me that…
Report for: christian-sauve.com, August 2002 Total Visitors: 2,497 Total Pageviews: 4,989 (Corrected Total: 3,115) Average Pageviews Per Day 160.93 (Corrected Average: 100) Total Hits: 9,023 Total Bytes Transferred: 144.1MB Average Visitors Per Day: 80.54 Average Hits Per Day: 291.06 Average Bytes Transferred Per Day: 4.650MB
The "corrected" numbers take out the CSS, robots.txt, PDFs, mis-filed graphic files (ICO, GIF, JPG) and other files mistakenly considered "pages". The results are all lower than last month. (Waaah!) I could blame some suspiciously low days when blacksun.ca switched the stats server, but instead I think I’ll just take my lumps like a big boy. (Snif)
In any case, our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html: 135 /reviews/movies-2001.htm: 91 /reviews/movies-1999.htm: 90 /texts/amazon-bookmarklet.htm: 70 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm: 63 /reviews/movies-2000.htm: 61 /reviews.html: 59 /reviews/2001/books01l.htm: 47 /reviews/movies-1998.htm: 47 /links.html: 45
…which is roughly consistent with last month’s results. Gee, do you suppose movie reviews are popular…?
If you care about such things, (I do!), here’s a depressing look at browser statistics for the month:
>Explorer|5 939 >Explorer|6 741 >Googlebot|2 174 >Netscape|5 164 >Netscape|4 139
I suppose I should be happy that The Evil Netscape 4.x is constantly becoming less popular (slightly under 5% of the total this month. On the other hand, I still have to contend with it whenever I re-do my CSS design… grr!
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals were
google.com/search: 1377 yahoo.com/bin/query: 606 google.ca/search: 256 google.fr/search: 89 google.de/search: 68
…which once again reaffirms my faith in the all-powerful Google.
Other sources of referrals include sites I’m updating…
>geocities.com/christian_sauve/francais/boreal98.htm: 4 >ncf.carleton.ca/_ae556/: 2 >revue-alibis.com/equipe.htm: 2 >revue-alibis.com/numero/2002/3-camera-oscura.htm: 12 >www.ncf.ca/_ae556/ 2
…friends (you rock!)…
>dhs.org/pet.html: 6 >gauthier.net/francais/liens.html: 10
…literary sources…
>geometry.net/authors/atack_chris.php: 1 >mostlyfiction.com/spy-thriller/brown.htm: 2 >sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/marsreview.html: 6
…and one fellow webmaster also checking his web log referrals information:
>air0day.com/admin/referrers.php: 2
3. Ohh! Reader comments!
Only one person wrote this month through the "Contact" page of the site, asking me if I could forward a message to a film director. Surprisingly enough, I could. What were the odds? Alas, it wasn’t Spielberg.
4. Search Queries Oddities
(This being the crowd-favourite section in which we take a look at the search engine queries used by various browsers to find christian-sauve.com)
3.1 – Our Biggest Success Stories
>amazon bookmarklet (x2) >isbn lookup (x32) >isbn lookup amazon (x2) >isbn book lookup >bookmarklets amazon >lookup isbn (x2) >lookup isbn number (x2) >web isbn lookup
Built it, put it online, and they will come!
>advance screenings movie >free movie tickets (x7) >free movie screenings (x6) >free movie screening tickets (x2) >free tickets to movie previews >free tickets movie premieres >free movie test screenings >free movie tickets california >free movie preview tickets >get tickets to film screenings free advance >how to get free movie tickets >how to get sneak preview movie tickets (x2) >how to get tickets to sneak previews >premiere movie tickets
I can’t believe people are looking for free movie tickets! Who’d'a thunk?
>i'm dieting and exercising and not losing weight >jogging morning losing weight >losing 10 pounds in 20 days without any buying things >losing 170 pounds >losing stomach flab >losing weight without buying >stomach shrinkage (x2) >walking and losing pounds testimony (x2) >weight watching breakfasts
After months of relative obscurity, my essay on Losing Weight seems to be gaining in popularity. Go figure why *now*.
3.2 – My name is (what?)
>christian book reviews (x8) >christian humorous monologue >christian web sites thoughts video >christian testimony vampire >christian biohazard signs
Why would a Christian biohazard sign be any different from a regular one? Oh, those wacky Christians!
>Christian Sauvé (x9) >christian sauve (x2) >christian sauve.com (x2) >sauve (x6)
Three Things:
- Yay!
- Why are so many people looking for me all of a sudden?
- Was anyone actually *searching* for "christian sauve.com"?
3.3 – Local Issues
>fight club ottawa >orleans cineplex odeon >ottawa porn movies >rockland ontario >smoke meat montreal >stone dust rockland ontario
I’m not sure I can be considered an authority on any of those things.
3.4 – Let’s all go to the Movies!
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A quick sampling of the type of queries used to get to my movie reviews. Is WILD THINGS one of your favorite movies too?
>brown color shyamalan signs >coincidence movie mel gibson signs quotes >m. night shyamalan ripoff >mel gibson signs chance miracles chance coincidences >movie reviews christian perspective signs >signs movie reviews atheist perspective >shyamalan tricks color symbolism unbreakable
Hmm. Do you suppose it’s a coincidence if M. Night Shyamalan’s SIGNS was released this month?
3.5 – Everybody was cyber-stalking!
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Take your pick, male or female, gay or straight. The worst thing is that none of these names are actually misspelt.
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And the current zeitgeist is…
>roselyn sanchez nude >roselyn sanchez nude naked photo picture >roselyn sanchez photo nude >roselyn sanchez topless >sex roselyn sanchez nude
Oh, we have a tie!
>should private lives of celebrities be off limits
Coming after everything else in this section, this really cracked me up.
3.6 – Whaaat?
>black and white cheats to get the bonus animals
Hm. Hmmm?
>amateur haley spy video night porn >guy double target anime porn movies >policewoman bondage >porn movies made in canada >robin hoods porn movie >sex beauty nude girl free movies clip >sunny wrestler lesbian >the best glamorous nude movie scenes in 2000-2002 >thwack woman officer buttocks or buttock or ass or bottom or backside or rump or...
It can’t be a month without porn-related queries.
>babe with glasses
Call me shallow, but this I rather like.
3.7 – Strange, disturbing and wondrous…
>ad-hominem famous gratuitous insults >punk rock groupie >sarcastic dialogues >to write a parody on a script (x2)
Despite what may actually appear as a widespread loathing of the type of queries used to get to my site, there are the occasional times where I can be proud that my site is seen as a reference for some queries. Here above are four of them.
>dr. john carter goes to rehab
I now know that this refers to ER, but I first read it as a reference to Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars series and completely cracked up.
>escapist christian groups
So how does that work? A group of prisoners meet to read the Bible, but secretly plan to escape instead?
>sauve hair care home page
Boy are they on the wrong site if they want hair care tips from me…
>what does scenery chomping mean
It means a Godzilla movie. No! Wait! That’s Scenery *stomping*!
>bodelicious and porn
Apparently, the word "bodelicious" isn’t as common as I thought. Google helpfully suggested "bootylicious". Gee, thanks.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… constantly surprised!