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, February 2004 Total Visitors: 5,124 Total Pageviews: 10,879 (Corrected Pageviews: 6,460) Average Pageviews Per Day: 375.13 (Corrected average: 223) Total Hits: 18,121 Total Bytes Transferred: 364.9MB Average Visitors Per Day: 177 Average Hits Per Day: 625
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. Total results are slightly down; average results are slightly up. That’s what happens in a 29-days month.
In any case, our top ten most popular pages are
christian-sauve.com/index.html 381christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2002.htm 187christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 181christian-sauve.com/texts/solaris-explanation.htm 180christian-sauve.com/reviews.html 134christian-sauve.com/texts/being-canadian.htm 133christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm 132christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2000.htm 128christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1998.htm 119christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1999.htm 107
Same old, same old. "Being Canadian" stays in the top-10 for the second straight month.
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 2825 (2479)Explorer|5 617 (727)Netscape|5 600 (641)Netscape|4 439 (568)Scooter|3 162 (New)
Sweet; Netscape 5 looks poised to pounce on Explorer 5 for second place.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 736 (680)yahoo.com/search 377 (251)msn.com/results.aspx 254 (180)www.google.ca/search 199 (216)msn.com/results.asp 96 (New)
The introduction of the new Yahoo Search seems to have have a small impact.
geocities.com/canadian_sf/smith/ smith_reviews.htm may be a new link to one of my reviews, but I’m not sure.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Not a lot… a few FormMail attacks, a query about how to see the new HARRY POTTER premiere (how should I know?) and a question on the True Definition of SF that may very well end up forming the kernel of an article sooner or later.
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 (x30) >sauve (x16) >free movie screenings (x16) >solaris movie explanation (x14) >john landis directed which two michael jackson videos in the 1980s (x13) >fred flintstones extraterrestrial friend (x13) >solaris movie explained (x11) >who was fred flintstones extraterrestrial friend (x10) >fred flintstone extraterrestrial friend (x8) >top-grossing movie of 1990 (x8)
Looks like a few trivia questions were answered this month.
4.2 – Strange, disturbing and wondrous…
>does being canadian make me part french
No.
>site de Christian Sauvé
Pop quiz: You’re using a search engine. You’re looking for Christian Sauvé’s web site. Do you type "Christian Sauvé" or "Christian Sauvé’s Web Site" ?
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.