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, August 2004 Total Visitors 6,275 Total Pageviews 15,163 (Corrected Pageviews: 10,466) Average Pageviews Per Day 489.12 (Corrected Average: 337.6) Total Hits 20,225 Total Bytes Transferred 485.8MB Average Visitors Per Day 202.41 Average Hits Per Day 652.41
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 total results are similar to last month’s… except for the pageviews counts, which are significantly higher.
In any case, our top ten most popular pages are
christian-sauve.com/index.html 399christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2002.htm 271christian-sauve.com/texts/solaris-explanation.htm 250christian-sauve.com/new-york/day_2.html 232christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2000.htm 213christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 210christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1999.htm 203christian-sauve.com/texts/100films.htm 188christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm 161christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2003.htm 157
Same old, same old. Not sure what’s so interesting about my New York report. Photos, probably.
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 2794 (3576)Netscape|5 1697 (1578)Explorer|5 395 (461)Googlebot|2 339 (216)Netscape|4 234 (New Top-5)
Netscape|5 gains, Explorer loses and Netscape|4 makes an unwelcome comeback in the Top-5.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 733 (731)sympatico.msn.ca/results.aspx 215 (272)yahoo.com/search 202 (211)www.google.ca/search 142 (160)google.com/imgres 79 (New)
Not much change.
One minor links from the outside world this month: http://reviews.authorstore.com/2004/ 08/bookrelated_boo.html decided that it loved my Amazon bookmarklets.
I also started noticing a number of links from a place called devaddict.com. After having to register to access their forums, it turns out that the "referer" field was used by an automatic bot (purpose mysterious) rather than the proper "browser" field. I left after reading a most satisfying series of flames from other irked webmasters.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Interesting month for the christian-sauve.com mailbox. Here’s the total:
1. One Paulette asks…
How can I start receiving free sneak preview movie tickets?
Gnaaah! The whole point of my article on the subject is to tell you how to do it! It changes from city to city, season to season!
2. A dissatisfied would-be reader writes to say…
I would like to read your TorCon3 report, but the pictures are blanking out the middle of the screen over most of the text.
I admit I’m using a pretty ancient browser just now, but I’m hoping you have a plain text version of the page that I could read?
…Some turnips are more evil than others.
After investigation, this turns to be a problem with IE5 for Macintosh. A fix is forthcoming, as soon as I can find a suitable text platform…
3. A friend travelling around the world makes contact from far far away, and points out that…
…Did you know that if you type in "French Canadian curse words", you are #5?
Woooooo!
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 43 >solaris explained 25 >nude scenes featuring marisa miller 22 >free movie screenings 13 >nude scenes featuring michelle rodriguez 13 >solaris movie explanation 11 >sauve 9 >nude scenes featuring vin diesel 6 >solaris movie explained 6 >book red sf 5
As usual, I can’t figure out why some of those queries are leading visitors to my site. Go figure.
Needled by a friend, I’m starting to suspect that the "nude scenes featuring…" queries are from a bot simply scouring the web for stuff like that. Consider the following…
nude scenes featuring brittany murphy 4 nude scenes featuring catherine zetajones 3 nude scenes featuring dina meyer 2 nude scenes featuring elizabeth berkley 2 nude scenes featuring kate hudson nude scenes featuring kirsten dunst 5 nude scenes featuring lucy liu 2 nude scenes featuring penelope cruz 3 nude scenes featuring piper perabo 2 nude scenes featuring sophie marceau nude scenes featuring thandie newton 3
4.2 – Strange, disturbing and wondrous…
>what entails being canadian >what is christian bales favorite type of music >what vehicle did tom hanks drive in the movie bachelor party >where can i find the cast of the beverly hillbillys movie
So many questions. So little interest in answering them.
>ugly duckling movie where female character transforms into a beautiful swan
And then they go "Oh, we liked her better when she was human."
>website where you can find conservative reviews on movies
Certainly not here.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.