September was a busy 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, September 2002 Total Visitors 3,027 Total Pageviews 5,956 (Corrected Total: 3,765) Average Pageviews Per Day 198.53 (Corrected Average: 126) Total Hits 10,839 Total Bytes Transferred 164.9MB Average Visitors Per Day 100.9 Average Hits Per Day 361.3 Average Bytes Transferred Per Day 5.496MB
The "corrected" numbers take out the CSS, robots.txt, PDFs, mis-filed graphic files (ICO, GIF, JPG) and other files mistakenly considered "pages" by the statistics pre-digestion engine. The results are all slightly higher that last month, but I won’t brag given that they might plunge at any time!
In any case, our top ten most popular pages are
/www.christian-sauve.com/index.html: 204 /www.christian-sauve.com/reviews.html: 85 /www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm: 84 /www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2000.htm: 78 /www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1999.htm: 71 /www.christian-sauve.com/links.html: 61 /www.christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm: 59 /www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1996.htm: 56 /www.christian-sauve.com/texts/amazon-bookmarklet.htm: 56 /www.christian-sauve.com/bioinfo.html: 54
…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 (by visitors):
>Explorer|5: 1138 >Explorer|6: 893 >Netscape|5: 297 >Netscape|4: 221 >Scooter|3 103
…and once again, the Forever-Damned Netscape 4 browsers still account for nearly 7% of all visitors… sigh… On the other hand, I do believe that this is the first time that IE4-generation browsers have disappeared from the top-5. Semi-yay, then.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
>google.com/search: 721 >yahoo.com/bin/query: 290 >www.google.ca/search: 129 >www.google.fr/search: 41 >aol.com/dirsearch.adp: 34
…which once again reaffirms my faith in the all-powerful Google. But what if Yahoo decides to go with another search engine…? Eek!
Other sources of referrals include sites I’m updating…
>geocities.com/christian_sauve/: 1 >revue-alibis.com/equipe.htm: 3 >revue-alibis.com/numero/2002/2-camera-oscura.htm: 1
…friends (Eric and Laurine, you rock!)…
>gauthier.net/english/words.html: 1 >gauthier.net/francais/liens.html: 1 >www.congresboreal.ca/liens_perso.htm: 2 >www3.sympatico.ca/launer/liens.htm: 1
…previously-discussed literary sources…
>geocities.com/canadian_sf/pages/authors/kingsbury.htm: 1 >ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php: 2 >sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/marsreview.html: 2
…and -it had to happen- a link from an Objectivism web site (to, obviously, my review of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged):
>objectivism.addr.com/books/rand/atlas.html: 8
3. Ohh! Reader comments!
Busy, exciting, sometimes-scary month from the readers’ mailbag.
First shock: Three years ago, I wrote a review of a non-fiction book in which one science writer took another scientist to task for what the writer saw as egocentrism and less-than-optimal judgement from the scientist. Faithfully reporting the content of that passage of the book finally caught up with me this month, as I received an email from the scientist concerned, correcting the writer’s account and saying, in part, "…don’t believe everything you read. Next time, reserve judgement until you’ve met and spoken to the individuals involved." Ouch! Well, that’ll teach me. After consultation with the scientist, I put up a corrected version of my review (see link above), which -I believe- is the only place on the web where the assertions of the book are balanced by another point of view.
Second shock:
Web-surfing just now, I stumbled across your review of my book, "Snapshots From Hell." What an immense pleasure to learn that the book connected with a reader as sweetly and completely as it did with you. Thanks for those very generous (and beautifully written) comments. Warmly, Peter Robinson
Third shock: I tend to assume that my web site is there for friends, family, students looking to steal book reviews (Ha! Fools! Thou shall be graded C+ at best!) and the hopelessly-lost porn-hunters. So it was a bit of a shock to receive an unusually-detailed email from a like-minded reader who’d just discovered my site. I was a bit surprised at the lead-in question mind you: Do you know your Jungian/MBTI/etc… type? If so, would you tell me? (For the record: No, I don’t know, but I suspect a tendency toward the intuitive/rational poles). It’s nice to know that someone, somewhere, is reading.
I also had a few emails from friends giving me their new email addresses, acquaintances using my contact form to ask to be put on one of the mailing lists I’m managing and the usual test messages from myself to myself. Oh, and a nasty message from my hosting provider telling me to upgrade my formmail script to a more secure version. (Yes, sir. And thanks for reminding me!) All in all, a satisfying month showing pretty much exactly what I had envisioned from my .com web site. Ain’t applied technology grand?
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
Hm. Let me guess: stuff about my Amazon ISBN lookup bookmarklets and free movie screening, right?
>amazon isbn lookup >isbn lookup (x29) >isbn lookup code >lookup isbn >lookup isbn number (x2) >bookmarklet amazon (x2) >free movie screenings (x8) >free movie tickets (x4) >free sneak preview movie tickets >free tickets for movie theatre >how to get advance movie screening >how to get free movie tickets >i want free tickets to see sneak previews to the movies >movie advance screenings >new movie contest preview ottawa
Hm. No surprises there.
3.2 – My name is (what?)
Yep, the usual Christian stuff:
>christian book critic (x2) >christian book editing >christian book reviewers >christian book reviews (x3) >christian dieting (x3) >christian flesh losing weight >christian heil >christian movie reviews (x2) >christian movie reviews 1995 >christian reviews of the movie glory 1989 >christian t-shirt >cryogenics- the christian perspective >naturally thin eating more christian
Now, can anyone tell me how -exactly- Christian dieting would be in any way special or even different from non-Christian dieting? (Or how one can be naturally thin eating more Christians? Didn’t work for the Roman lions.) Gaah. My perspective on cryogenics is that it should be mandatory for everyone who’s looking for Christian-specific dieting information.
>christian sauve (x3) >sauve (x6) >sauv& eacute; (x3) >www.sauve.com (x3)
Lest I grow too cocky, I pulled numbers for the last six months of christian-sauve.com, and it turns out that "gary taubes" (a controversial science writer whose Nobel Dreams I review elsewhere on the site) was a more popular search query than "christian sauve". Whaaa? Should I just change this site to gary-taubes.com? What is wrong with you people?
>the song of sauve
No comments. At all.
3.3 – Local Issues
>ottawa citizen movie reviews >ottawa porn links >ottawa theaters >second hand bookstore ottawa graphic novel
Nothing interesting to see here. Moving along…
3.4 – Let’s all go to the Movies!
>100 good movies
You ask, you get.
>1201 groundhog day silverman
Interesting. So someone else figured out that GROUNDHOG DAY and 12:01 (starring Jonathan Silverman) do resemble each other a lot.
>abre los ojos ending spoiler
Someone opens their eyes. That’s the spoiler. No kidding.
>asterix et cleopatre subtitle >asterix et obelix_ mission cleopatre trailer >asterix mission cleopatre subtitle >asterix obelix mission cleopatre subtitle >astérix mission cloptre easter >mission cleopatre subtitle >review of asterix and obelix mission cleopatre
Well look at that: I’m bringing pop French culture to the English-reading masses!
3.5 – New York!
>new york sucks
No! It doesn’t!
liberty state park silver guy robot
Eerie! We did see a "silver guy robot" last time we were at Liberty state park, but I could have sworn he’d have died of heat exhaustion by now.
3.6 – Everybody was cyber-stalking!
Let’s rake the web logs for a sampling of America’s current celebrity pervertions:
catherine bruhier naked (x2) halley berry sex scene lauren holly down periscope cleavage roselyn sanchez nude fake (x2) roselyn sanchez nude photo tia carrere porn films undressed hong kong actress
Yadda… Roselyn still rocks the vote…
badly naked and only naked hot pictures of sandra bullock
Yes… when "naked pictures of Sandra Bullock" aren’t enough… you need "Badly naked and only naked" pictures of her. If only I’d be desperate enough, I guess it would make sense to me…
cameron diaz nude and naked in the movie the mask
Again: It’s not enough for her to be nuke OR naked: she has to be both at the same time! Porn-hunters are ever-demanding!
emma hayek stripper scene
"Emma Hayek"? Surely you mean the divine Salma Hayek, you heathen!
emma watson fake nude emma watson girl naked robin tunney naked robin tunney nude scenes in supernova
Is someone actually looking for naked pictures of Emma Watson or Robin Tunney? What is wrong with today’s perverts? Can’t you at least pick someone you’d *want* to see naked?
pictures of vin diesel fully exposed vain diesel actor photos vin diesel interview michelle rodriguez relationship
Lest anyone thinks only heterosexual males are scouring the web for celeb stuff… I must admit that I’m rather amused by "Vain Diesel", though…
3.7 – The Perv-a-tron!
adult hypno forced sex video butt kicking babes images cheapest prices for classic porn movies anywhere cia and hot chicks electrocution snuff movies excellent vampire film with nudity (x3) nudist job opening sex commandoes
Sick. But also intriguing: Who would consciously associate the CIA with hot chicks? What about non-excellent vampire films with nudity? I’m not sure I want to know about nudist job openings, though.
3.8 – Strange, disturbing and wondrous…
>mowing the lawn in the 1900s >super heroes that become bitter when they lose their popularity
Kids search for the darndest things nowadays.
aircraft carrier nimitz blueprint
Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull the complete blueprints of the USS Nimitz out of my web site!
billys balloon film clip
Oh! Oh! If ever someone find that, let me know! That animated short is just hilarious!
buzz aldrin punch conspiracy theorist
Sounds like a conspiration theory itself. Or maybe just an urban legend.
gender alien colonization sci-fi novel
Gah?
hairdressing stunts
"…and for his next stunt, the grand Herdresso will attempt a beehive hairdo above the churning waters of Niagara falls! Stay tuned!"
mathematical scandals book report
"I have proven that 1+1=3!"
"No!"
"Modern math is a sham!"
"Scandalous!"
monster truck disasters videos
"…it appears to have run out of gas"
"Oh, the DISASTER!"
"But otherwise it would be stomping Manhattan flat!"
"Oh, the TRAGEDY!"
science fiction is dying
An interesting query in a month where I was busy pulling together a massive research paper dealing, in part, with the very same subject. Hmm… Could I have searched my own site? Why wouldn’t I remember it? Is it wise to ask myself more questions about this?
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… mystified.