Here are the monthly highlights for christian-sauve.com:
1. Mmm. Numbers…
My prickly "Urchin" web stats engine tells me that…
Report for: christian-sauve.com, June 2004 Total Visitors: 6,108 Total Pageviews: 13,764 (Corrected Pageviews: 9,210) Average Pageviews Per Day: 458.8 (Corrected Average: 307) Total Hits: 20,857 Total Bytes Transferred: 517.2MB Average Visitors Per Day: 203.6 Average Hits Per Day: 695.23
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. Most results are similar to last month, sometimes lower (the Total numbers) and sometimes higher (the Average numbers) thanks to June having only 30 days.
In any case, our top ten most popular pages are
christian-sauve.com/index.html 383christian-sauve.com/new-york/day_2.html 351christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2002.htm 249christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-...htm 244christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1999.htm 205christian-sauve.com/reviews.html 185christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm 182christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2003.htm 161christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2000.htm 146christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1996.htm 145
Same old, same old. Not sure what’s so interesting about my New York report.
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 3055 (3309)Netscape|5 1336 (940)Explorer|5 435 (594)Googlebot|2 284 (494)msnbot|0 250 (New)
Yup, you read that right: After years of bitching about it, Netscape 4 finally drops out of the Top-5. As an added bonus, Mozilla-based Netscape|5 derivatives continue to gather more and more users, now up to more than a third of the IE|6 numbers.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 702 (823)yahoo.com/search 210 (369)www.google.ca/search 202 (227)sympatico.msn.ca/results.aspx 176 (New)google.com/imgres 154 (181)
It looks as if search engines took a holiday early this year. There’s an interesting new player in the form of sympatico.msn.ca
New (and thrilling) link this month: Nicholas Whyte’s Hugo Awards 2004 critical roundup (explorers.whyte.com/sf/Hugo2004.htm) mentionned my review of Robert J. Sawyer’s Humans thusly: "…Only Max of SF Reviews, and to a lesser extent J.B. Peck of SciFi.com and Christian Sauve, share my reservations." (He didn’t like it) Woo! Such exalted company!
On the other hand, at least two of my photos were linked from other sites, a particularly annoying practice I can’t stand. (Short explanation: They steal my bandwidth for the benefit of their sites, without any acknowledgement.)
- Some idiot at "mafiarpg.com" nicked a picture of a hotel room from my New York travelogue (go figure). I had to register at the site to find the offending page. Then I renamed the file and left them with a broken link. Heh-heh.
- The second incident was vastly more annoying: a moron at the blogging site xanga.com stole a picture, but the silly useless Urchin web statistic engine can’t let me see the Xanga user name nor what picture is being used without my permission. Gaaah.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Moribund month for the christian-sauve.com mailbox. Let’s flip it over and see what drifts away…
1. One blank message. Unknown origin.
2. As a sign of how quiet the month of June ended up being, I didn’t even get one Formmail attack. (Though there was a fairly comprehensive automated attempt at guessing the name of my formmail script.)
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
>mcdonalds 20 >sauve 13 >starship troopers 2 12 >free movie screenings 10 >carolyn porco 10 >solaris explanation 9 >solaris explained 8 >dollmaker 7 >christian statistics 7 >how to get free movie tickets 6
As usual, I can’t figure out why some of those queries are leading visitors to my site. christian-sauve.com doesn’t even show in the Google Top-50 for mcdonalds, starship troopers 2, free movie screenings or dollmaker.
On the other hand, I was thrilled to find out that christian-sauve.com is now the top result in google for "sauve", over and above those scum-suckers that rent sauve.com for profit. As an added bonus, it means that in programs like Firefox that use Google as a way to resolve unresolvable URLs, christian-sauve.com is only five letters away!
4.2 – Strange, disturbing and wondrous…
>what are the graphically manipulated parts in the animated disney film shrek >what boxer_s life story was titled raging bull >what is fluff cinema >what is the symbolism in edward scissorhands >where can i get free movie screening tickets >which mode is ed norton in in the car crash scene in fight club >who are the protagonist / antagonist in the movie pleasantville >who framed roger rabbit christian movie review >why people should be proud to be a canadian citizen because of candas history
So many questions. So little interest in answering them.
>was hitler a christian nonsense
What the heck is that supposed to mean?
>nude scenes featuring kirsten dunst >nude scenes featuring lucy liu >nude scenes featuring marisa miller >nude scenes featuring michelle rodriguez >nude scenes featuring tia carrere
I sense a theme running through… but what could it be?
>turgidness >unlikable >unmemorable
They search for those things. Google does its job. They find this site. Everybody wins.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.