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, January 2004 Total Visitors: 5,370 Total Pageviews: 11,301 (Corrected Pageviews: 7,260) Average Pageviews Per Day: 364.55 (Corrected average: 234.19) Total Hits: 18,639 Total Bytes Transferred: 380.7MB Average Visitors Per Day: 173 Average Hits Per Day: 601
The "corrected" numbers take out the CSS, robots.txt, PDFs, mis-filed graphic files (ICO, GIF, JPG) and other non-public files mistakenly considered "pages" by the statistics pre-digestion engine. Results were all up by nearly a sixth, a good bounce-back from the lull of the december holidays.
In any case, our top ten most popular pages are
christian-sauve.com/index.html 299christian-sauve.com/new-york/day_2.html 149christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 145christian-sauve.com/texts/solaris-explanation.htm 143christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2002.htm 135christian-sauve.com/reviews.html 133christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1999.htm 121christian-sauve.com/texts/being-canadian.htm 120christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2000.htm 119christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm 110
Same old, same old. "Being Canadian" cracks the top-10.
If you care about such things, (who would not?), here’s a look at browser statistics for the month (by visitors, last month’s results in parentheses):
Explorer|6 2479 (2001) Explorer|5 727 (599) Netscape|5 641 (536) Netscape|4 568 (592)Googlebot|2 383 (286)
Down, Netscape 4.x, down…
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 680 (659)yahoo.com/search 251 (297)www.google.ca/search 216 (169)msn.com/results.aspx 180 (136)google.com/imgres 68 (New Top-5)
Very stable results.
No new links in December.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
The christian-sauve.com mailbox was empty this month, at the exception of a few messages at the beginning and end of the month that were not intended for public disclosure. So what happened? Well, how about a mailto script that, for three weeks, didn’t have the appropriate execution rights? Who’s the moron? I am…
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 (x24) >sauve (x14) >solaris explained (x11) >solaris movie explanation (x7) >free movie screenings (x6) >being canadian (x6) >carolyn porco (x5) >solaris movie explained (x5) >christian movie reviews (x4) >amazon isbn (x4)
Here too, same old business as usual.
4.2 – Strange, disturbing and wondrous…
>christian sauve the princess bride >christian sauve's book reviews
Even after years looking at web site referals and search queries, I will freely admit at being freaked-out by those direct queries. Brr.
>was h. c. anderson sex life iffy
Don’t ask me! I don’t know!
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.