Here’s a selection of the November highlights for christian-sauve.com:
1. Mmm. Numbers…
My Prickly "Urchin" web stats engine tells me that…
Report for: christian-sauve.com, November 2002 Total Visitors 3,746 Total Pageviews 8,196 (Corrected Total: 5,074) Average Pageviews Per Day 273.2 (Corrected Average: 163) Total Hits 13,802 Total Bytes Transferred 211.8MB Average Visitors Per Day 124.86 Average Hits Per Day 460.06 Average Bytes Transferred Per Day 7.059MB
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 roughly equal to last month.
In any case, our top ten most popular pages are
/www.christian-sauve.com/index.html 320 /www.christian-sauve.com/novel/index.html 191 /www.christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 159 /www.christian-sauve.com/reviews.html 156 /www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm 150 /www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2000.htm 122 /www.christian-sauve.com/links.html 107 /www.christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1999.htm 95 /www.christian-sauve.com/francais/sff-1997.htm 92 /www.christian-sauve.com/francais/index.html 91
…which is roughly consistent with last month’s results. Gee, do you suppose movie reviews are popular…? Note that /novel/index.htm was the daily blog of my NaNoWriMo endeavour ("This month, I write a novel!"), updated daily.
If you care about such things, (I do!), here’s a depressing look at browser statistics for the month (by visitors):
Explorer|6 1285 Explorer|5 1121 Scooter|3 469 Netscape|5 272 Netscape|4 228
…and once again, the Forever-Damned Netscape 4 browsers still account for nearly 5% of all visitors… sigh…
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
>google.com/search 799 >yahoo.com/search 276 >www.google.ca/search 153 >msn.com/results.asp 85 >yahoo.com/bin/search 84
…which once again reaffirms my faith in the all-powerful Google. MSN was on the rise; Yahoo fell slightly. But what if Yahoo decides to go with another search engine…? Eek! (And, indeed, according to news reports in November 2002, Yahoo nearly did just that.)
Other sources of referrals include the usual sites I’m updating, remnants of my previous sites, friends and the steady trickle of visitors streaming from an Objectivism web site (to, obviously, my review of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged):
3. Ohh! Reader comments!
Busy, exciting, sometimes-scary month from the readers’ mailbag.
1. Canadian author Diane Mason Baker writes in:
I wanted to thank you for your generous and well-thought-out review of my novelization of the film Men With Brooms. I tried very hard to accomplish some of the things you mentioned – for instance, the "smoothing-out" – and was frankly thrilled to see that you felt it had worked. (…) Do I have permission to link to your review on my website?
By the way, don’t forget to read my "real" book – Last Summer At Barebones – which has just come out in mass market paperback. Thanks again for making my day.
I replied and gave permission for the link. After such nice words (which made *my* day), I’m nearly certain to pick up Last Summer At Barebones soon.
2. A "Bruber" asks:
so, Mr. Suave Why The name Bruber? That so happens to be my last name.
and added in a second message
Oh, and by the way Yuri did you ever start going to the gym?
Since I couldn’t make any sense out of the second question, I answered the first (It was a take-off on a colleague’s name that I used in one of my online screenplays; I truly believed that I was making up the name at the time) and ignored the rest. Should have, because a few days later, I got:
so you didnt reply to my second question…
To which I was forced to admit that I didn’t have any clue what it was all about, my life being conspicuously absent of any Yuris or gyms.
This must have been a satisfying answer: I didn’t get anything back after that.
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)
4.1 – Top ten queries
Let’s take a look at the top ten search queries used to stumble upon my site:
>free movie screenings: 19 >isbn lookup: 15 >solaris movie explanation: 11 >free movie tickets: 9 >sauve: 9 >free movie premiere tickets: 7 >that bringas woman: 6 >kendra torgan: 5 >advance movie screenings: 4 >stomach shrinkage: 3
Hm. Bleh. Hey, where’s my name?
Shamelessly acting upon the hits for an explanation to the movie SOLARIS (11 in three days!), I quickly whipped up a quick guide to the film.
4.2 – My name is (what?)
Yep, the usual Christian stuff:
>christian book reviews (x2) >christian book reviews soul winner >christian dramas no excuses >christian horseman >christian losing weight >christian movie critics (x3) >christian movie reviewer >christian movie reviews crossroads >christian redesign >christian sauve >christian acronyms
Oh, those wacky Christians… I do agree that there’s not excuse for christian drama.
4.3 – Local Issues
>cineplex ottawa south keys theater >ottawa odeon theatre world exchange >ottawa visual effects >rideau center ottawa movies famous players >world exchange cineplex odeon
Hey, Ottawa-are theater owners! For a low, low fee (say, a yearly pass), I *will* shamelessly plug your establishment to at least a visitor a month!
4.4 – Let’s all go to the Movies!
>movie advance screenings >movie before 1970 >movie clip of halle berry nude scene with billy bob thornton >movie lines from the 1980s >movie premieres tickets >movie preview tickets (x2) >movie reviews 2002 >movie reviews christian >movie reviews one flew over the cuckoos nest >movie reviews outbreak christian >movie studios offering movie screenings >movie the crimson rivers explained >movie the fifth element relate scenes to physics (x2) >movie ticket giveaways >movies essay (x2)
Wow. Looks like people do want free stuff after all.
>two's a mob 1998
Interesting, given that I’m one of the few to have seen (let alone reviewed) this little-known Ottawa-area 1998 comedy.
4.5 – Everybody was cyber-stalking!
Let’s rake the web logs for a sampling of America’s current celebrity perversions:
>amanda peet naked in the whole nine yard >amelie poulin topless actors >amy smart topless clip >emma watson adult harry nude >emma watson fake nude (x2) >emma watson nude extras topless >fran drescher fake (x3) >gwynneth paltrow naked shots >gwynneth paltrow nude great expectations >halley barrys hairstyle >halley berry and wesley snipes >halley berrys porn >hermione emma watson naked photo >isabelle cyr >janeanne garofalo the rules >kendra torgan fan >kylie minogues role as cammy >penelope cruzs haircut >roselyn sanchez fake nude >roselyn sanchez index january >teri garr nude scene >whoppie goldberg fan club
Those Emma Watson ("Hermione", HARRY POTTER) queries are just sick. Well, that "Whoopie Goldberg" one too.
>amy smart denise richards screen shots in starship troopers >jennifer connelly in mullholland drive
Dear Pervs: at least make sure the actress you’re searching for was in the movie you’re looking for.
4.6 – The Perv-a-tron!
>lesbian elopement
Yes, who wouldn’t?
4.7 – Strange, disturbing and wondrous…
>mirage gold nuclear exercise
Now this is interesting: As described in the book One Point Safe, "Mirage Gold" was a 199x anti-terrorism exercise that went hideously wrong. There isn’t all that much information available on it on the Internet, and I’m still a bit curious to learn what exactly happened then.
>janeway is so fat jokes
I suddenly get a frightening glimpse into post-DS9 Trek culture.
>thomas edison favourite food
Hm? People search for the darndest things…
>geocities refugee
Yes, though most of us actually wanted to get away from Geocities.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… mystified.