Here’s a selection of the February highlights for christian-sauve.com:
1. Mmm. Numbers…
My Prickly "Urchin" web stats engine tells me that…
Report for: christian-sauve.com, February 2003 Total Visitors 4,317 Total Pageviews 9,278 (Corrected Total: 5,825) Average Pageviews Per Day 331.35 (Corrected Average: 208) Total Hits 13,723 Total Bytes Transferred 261.7MB Average Visitors Per Day 154.17 Average Hits Per Day 490.1 Average Bytes Transferred Per Day 9.346MB
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. Total results are roughly equal to last month; average numbers are higher given that February had only 28 days.
In any case, our top ten most popular pages are
christian-sauve.com/index.html 279 christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 176 christian-sauve.com/reviews.html 167 christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2000.htm 131 christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm 129 christian-sauve.com/links.html 112 christian-sauve.com/texts/solaris-explanation.htm 110 christian-sauve.com/texts/100films.htm 107 christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1999.htm 105 christian-sauve.com/francais/index.html 103
…which is roughly consistent with last month’s results. Gee, do you suppose movie reviews are popular…? D’ya think SOLARIS might have confused a few people?
If you care about such things, (I do!), here’s a look at browser statistics for the month (by visitors):
>Explorer|6 1589 >Explorer|5 1034 >Scooter|3 450 >Netscape|5 420 >Googlebot|2 219
The most encouraging piece of news here is that for the first time I can recall, the accursed Netscape 4 disappeared from the Top-5 ranking. Hurrah!
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 885 yahoo.com/search 295 www.google.ca/search 203 msn.com/results.asp 115 yahoo.com/bin/search 115
Google stayed the same (during a shorter month), MSN rose slightly and Yahoo fell slightly.
There were no new links seen this month.
3. Ohh! Reader comments!
A few questions here and there:
1. I continue to confuse people. To wit:
(Referring to a section in my How to Get Free Tickets essay where I explain how winning contests can allow to to get ticket to Hollywood premiers.)
In one part, you say "unless you win one of those ‘buy SHMOZL and win tickest to the official premeiere’ there is no way to get in to the official premeire." well, what is the ‘buy SHMOZL’ thing anyway? what does that mean
It means that I’m being too clever for my own good. "Shmozl" was used as a generic product name and, in reality, was inspired by the name of the beer in the "Achille Talon" comic strip.
2. A surfer wonders
do you have a review on Callahan Chronicals by Spider Robinson?????
3. SOLARIS continues to mystify people
Given that solaris re-created "human" entities, how was pseudo-snow created? Did chris died and thus existed in a re-creational way into solaris ?
See the explanation (updated) for details…
4. A friendly reader from Hawaii (Aloha!) writes to say
Found your Solaris explanation through google. Very nice recap, I enjoyed it. Nice of you to lay it all out on a webpage.
As long as I can help even one person, I’m happy to serve.
4. Search Queries Oddities
(This being the crowd-favourite section in which we take a look at the search engine queries used by various visitors 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:
solaris explanation (x21) free movie screenings (x18) free movie tickets (x12) solaris explained (x7) sauve (x7) solaris explanation movie (x6) solaris movie explanation (x5) sneak preview movie tickets (x5) movies before 1970 (x5) that bringas woman (x4)
Same old, same old…
4.2 – My name is (what?)
Yep, the usual Christian stuff:
>christian bookstores new york city >christian convention setup >christian duds >christian flash movies >christian limericks example >christian mimes >christian movie reviewers (x2) >christian movies database >christian reviews of a series of unfortunate events >christian reviews the shawshank redemption >christian spoofs picture >losing weight the christian way (x2) >sexy christian woman gone wild
Oh, those wacky Christians… (and those mimes; they’re the worst)
>christian sauve (x3)
Yay! Me!
4.3 – Local Issues
guru movie ottawa 1 movie theater listings ottawa 1 ottawa theaters 2 south keys cineplex theater ottawa 1 job search and web designer and rockland 1 vanier cineplex
Get job. See movie. Live in the Ottawa Area.
4.4 – Let’s all go to the Movies!
explanation of movie solaris 1 explanation of solaris 2 explanation of solaris movie 2 explanation solaris 2 solaris 2002 plot 1 solaris interpretation 3 solaris movie explained 3 solarisexplanationmovie 1
All around the world, audiences continue to be mystified by SOLARIS…
4.5 – Everybody was cyber-stalking!
Let’s study the web logs for a sampling of America’s current celebrity perversions:
>anna farris on naked >annette bennings hair (x2) >carmen electra the mating habits of > earthbound humans movie clips >eleniak under siege nude >garcelle beauvais themes >julia stiles sex scene o clip >kendra torgan (x2) >nude courtney love >pictures of heidi fleiss >pictures of vanessa williams 1997 video bet happiness >piper perabo slap her shes french quebec >roselyn sanchez lingerie >roselyn sanchez nude (x2) >roselyn sanchez pure. >salma hayek desperado nude scene >shannyn sossamon hairstyle (x2) >zhang ziyi hero nude movie clip
!!! So how do you want your Roselyn Sanchez? Nude, pure or somewhere in between wearing lingerie?
>christian slater nude scene (x2) >colin firth interview >collin farrell naked >wes studi nude >young mel gibson gallery
Some are looking for guys too…
4.6 – The Perv-a-tron!
>naked neutron jimmy
Eew. That’s sick.
>free twisty clip sex
Shocking twist! You won’t see the ending coming!
4.7 – Strange, disturbing and wondrous…
>1930s useless occupational book
Eh? Huh? Whaaat?
>an essay on killing lizards
"This is a lizard I killed. An ex-lizard. This lizard is no more."
>atlas shrugged punch drunk love
And the prize for weirdest crossover of the month goes to…
>canada invasion pl ans >conspiracies fort drum >floyd w. rudmin
Good month, bad month, I get a few queries about Floyd Rudmin’s Bordering on Aggression. This is this February 2003′s crop.
>family dignity taken by voyeur
"Marcello! By parading naked in front of our picture window and allowing you to be seen by this peeping tom, you have destroyed the reputation of this great familia! Now, even our best hitmen cannot erase the great dishonour you have brought upon us! We disown you! Leave this country now!"
…and another great Italian-American crime saga is born…
>great intentions movie robert de niro > gwyneth paltrow -cruel intentions
Someone looking for "Great Expectations"…!
>kingpin nbc bad moral i want to contact > someone to stop this show
Awww. That’s so cuuute.
>tearjerker movies are the best
No! They’re not!
>terrorist destroying a dam
Nothing to see here, move along…
>van damme abominable dvd
They pretty much all are. You’ve been warned.
>what street is symbolically the financial > center of canada
Bay Street. Toronto. You’re welcome.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… fascinated by my own web referral logs.