Here’s a selection of the monthly highlights for christian-sauve.com:
1. Mmm. Numbers…
My Prickly "Urchin" web stats engine tells me that…
Report for: christian-sauve.com, August 2003 Total Visitors 4,607 Total Pageviews 9,833 (Corrected Total: 6,155) Average Pageviews Per Day 317.19 (Corrected Total: 198.55) Total Hits 14,380 Total Bytes Transferred 288.2MB Average Visitors Per Day 148.61 Average Hits Per Day 463.87 Average Bytes Transferred Per Day 9.297MB
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. Results are almost identical to last month, but as we’ll see in a second, one particular page helped a lot to counter-act the summer doldrums and the power blackout that afflicted 50 million potential visitors during the month of August 2003.
In any case, our top ten most popular pages are
christian-sauve.com/texts/solaris-explanation.htm 496 christian-sauve.com/ 245 christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 195 christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2002.htm 174 christian-sauve.com/reviews.html 149 christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1998.htm 119 christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1999.htm 117 christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm 116 christian-sauve.com/contact.html 114 christian-sauve.com/new-york/day_2.html 110
Wowsers! If that’s not a ringing endorsement of my "Solaris Explained" page, I’m not sure what would be. Thank you, George Clooney, for starring in such an incomprehensible film!
If you care about such things, (I do!), here’s a look at browser statistics for the month (by visitors, last month’s results in parentheses):
Explorer|6 1955 (1923) Netscape|4 738 (628) Explorer|5 704 (846) Scooter|3 391 (New in Top-5) Netscape|5 343 (363)
Go away, Netscape 4. Just die, already.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 766 (737) yahoo.com/search 338 (234) msn.com/results.aspx 172 (158) www.google.ca/search 122 (147) msn.com/results.asp 52 (New in Top-5)
Search queries were stable (though, as we’ll see in a moment, concentrated on one particular subject) and it looks as if there’s been some URL consolidation for yahoo.com/bin/search.
I may have mentioned this before, but I’m now linked as "The praise of readers everywhere" at author Diane Mason Baker’s Men with Brooms page at www3.sympatico.ca/dianemason/ Menwithbrooms.html
I also received a number of visitors (10) from thedvdforums.com, where I discovered (after a frustrating registration procedure simply to read the forums) that yet another happy visitor had recommended my "Solaris explained" page. Yay me.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Busy month for the christian-sauve.com mailbox. Here’s the damage:
1. First, here’s a "Solaris trilogy" of messages about the movie and about my explanations:
Jennifer from Texas:
If Solaris is recreating phantoms from the humans past, why would it send Snow a phantom of himself? Please help!!!
My short answer: Snow was a full-blown introverted narcissist whose favourite person was… himself.
Jamie from Seattle:
Don’t get me wrong I not much of a religious person, but I got the impression that Solaris might really be a depiction of heaven or perhaps a method of communication with god. This in turn ties in with the ending, Chris’s reunion with Rheya at the end of the film, and the happy for the rest of eternity angle. What do you think?
My short answer to that: I’m not a very religious person either, and (to my knowledge), neither is Steven Soderbergh, hence my neglecting this interpretation.
Doug from Atlanta:
Hi – just saw this film and had to search the web (for the first time) to try and figure it out. My original thought was that they had inadvertently discovered either heaven or god, in Solaris. Partly due to the standard cocktail party conversation about god/religion that was probably just linked to the abortion. Anyway – I feel a little better seeing that you don’t have much of an explanation eitherI did have a couple of nearly identical reactions to yours such as that they should’ve made it into a 1 hour TV special by cutting out all the dreary laying around with pained expressions in blue light, though I didn’t originally get that he stayed with the main ship and crashed into the planet (thanks) which clears up a bit.
Whew! I have nothing to add to that.
2. Why is it that people send me empty messages from my "comments" page? This month, I got blank emails from modemcable161.60-131-66.nowhere.mc.videotron.ca [66.131.60.161] and aol.com [205.188.208.134]. Go figure. Y’all have a mouse and a keyboard, people! Learn how to use both!
3. A charming acquaintance writes to ask…
…J’ai essayé de trouver le site pour le congrès Boreal 2003 avec Yahoo. Est-ce que vous pouvez me donner la bonne addresse pour 2003?
The French-Canadian SF&F convention Boréal 2003 will take place on October 24-25-26 at Montréal’s Holiday Inn Metro-Centre. See you there; check www.congresboreal.ca for more details! (As it turns out, I’ll be your Grand Programator for this year’s batch of panels…)
4. This month’s heart-warming "Internet makes the world smaller" message goes to an adorable German girl who liked my New York travelogue and wrote to say…
Many greetings from Germany. I found your web site through Google picture search, because I just had the idea I would like to view the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal in New York. I read about it in a novel by Mark Helprin. And that’s how I found your very interesting web site. Internet is great!
I couldn’t have said it better myself: Internet is great!
5. And finally, the webmaster of the best Objectivism resource on the web writes to notify me that…
I don’t know if you ever update the links on your old reviews, but I noticed that in your review of Atlas Shrugged you have a link to my Objectivism Reference Center site (objectivism.addr.com). However, the site has moved since you made that link, so it is outdated now. The new address is http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/ , in case you want to update the link.
While you may or may not like objectivism, there is no better place to learn about it than at the afore-mentioned URL. (Yes, my link has been updated)
4. Search Queries Oddities
(This being the 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
>solaris explanation (x122) >solaris explained (x58) >solar is movie explanation (x38) >free movie screenings (x25) >solaris movie explained (x17) >explanation of solaris (x7) >solaris the movie explained (x7) >solaris plot explanation (x7) >isbn lookup (x6) >movie solaris explained (x6)
Almost a clean sweep, wouldn’t you say? And yet, this stuff about Solaris is merely the tip of the iceberg… see below.
4.2 – My name is (what?)
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Faithful readers of these web statistics (if any) will recall that my site, for an obvious reason, is a real magnet for anyone sticking "christian" in otherwise routine search queries. Following-up on last month’s "Elvis" experiment, I have now replaced all instances of "Christian" with "Buddhist". If the result strikes you as insane, well, that’s the point. You have to admit, though, that "losing weight –Buddhist style!" has a certain ring to it.
4.3 – Let’s all go to the Movies!
After a strong start last month, the frenzy for SOLARIS explanations continues, thanks to the DVD release of the film:
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Crikey! Look at those beauts! Will it ever stop? Let’s hope not!
4.4 – Everybody was cyber-stalking!
So, who’s hot and who’s not?
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Take your pick.
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Guys too. Sort of.
4.5 – The Perv-a-tron!
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Some of the queries we receive here at christian-sauve.com make us nod our heads in approval.
>cocooning female duct tape >gay porn film industrial strength >sexy girls squishing insect
Then again, some other make us want to swear off this internet thing forever. "Industrial strength"? Eek.
4.6 – Strange, disturbing and wondrous…
>drinking liquid oxygen >how much weight will i lose on a starvation diet in four weeks
Both of these things would go right under our "things not to be done" category.
>canadian eunuch body modification
That one would also be, except that we’re curious as to
- Who, exactly, would be confused by the body modifications required to become an eunuch, and
- How it would differ for a Canadian.
>what are some businesses that support anti-consumerism
Wouldn’t that be a contradiction in terms?
>what can be done for loose teeth in mid twenties
Super Glue. Trust us. No, wait: Don’t.
>what a freudian thinks about dennis rodman's behaviour
"Weird?" "Desperate for attention?" "Unhinged?" "Sooo nineties?"
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.