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, October 2004 Total Visitors 4,984 Total Pageviews 12,185 (Corrected Total: 8,469) Average Pageviews Per Day 393.1 (Corrected Average: 273.2) Total Hits 18,057 Total Bytes Transferred 425.6MB Average Visitors Per Day 160.77 Average Hits Per Day 582.48
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. All results are significantly lower than last month.
In any case, our top ten most popular pages are
christian-sauve.com/index.html 270christian-sauve.com/new-york/day_2.html 237christian-sauve.com/texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 144christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 143christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm 137christian-sauve.com/reviews.html 134christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1997.htm 123christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1998.htm 121christian-sauve.com/texts/100films.htm 116christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2002.htm 108
My Noreascon 4 report continues to attract attention. Movie stuff completes the list.
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 2331 (2607)Netscape|5 1095 (1579)Googlebot|2 421 (273)Explorer|5 246 (369)Netscape|4 135 (171)
Not much to report here.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 488 (637)yahoo.com/search 199 (133)sympatico.msn.ca/results.aspx 146 (132)www.google.ca/search 116 (156)google.com/imgres 77 (71)
Eh.
One old, old link resurfaced from the depths of LiveJournal this month, a simple name-less link (livejournal.com/users/nothings/70966.html) to my Top-100 film list. I even get props from a commenter: "The dude has Airplane! and Blues Brothers ranked right next to each other. He gets a thumb up from me." Yay!
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Interesting month for the christian-sauve.com mailbox. Here’s the total:
1. Another Sauve wrote to say…
fun
…to which I’d be hard-pressed to disagree.
2. Rick Klaw (Author of Geek Confidential, which I reviewed in the September 2004 reviews) wrote to say…
Thanks for the comments on my book and column. I can’t disagree with some of your criticicms. Though it’s interesting that every room criticizes different things. I am glad overall that you enjoyed.
Perhaps you’ll be glad to hear that I am currently shopping a new book with all original material.
Despite my mixed review, I’m honestly thrilled to hear that another book is forthcoming from him.
3. An unknown SF writer (let’s not name names) thought it would be a good idea to dump a press release announcing his latest novel in my mailbox. Without commenting on the quality of the book (which, for all I know, could be as good as his breathless hype suggests), let’s just say that anyone who think they’re going to perk up my interest through a cut-and-paste job is, er, wrong.
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)
Our top-ten queries:
solaris explanation (x12)free movie screenings (x9)book red sf (x8)being canadian (x7)amazon bookmarklet (x6)isbn lookup (x6)symbolism in edward scissorhands (x6)losing weight (x5)solaris explained (x5)that bringas woman (x5)
Few surprises here.
More evidence about a webbot scouring the web for celebrity nudity content:
nude scenes featuring cerina vincentnude scenes featuring dina meyer (x3)nude scenes featuring jennifer connellynude scenes featuring jordana brewsternude scenes featuring kirsten dunst (x6)nude scenes featuring marisa miller (x12)nude scenes featuring michelle rodriguez (x4)nude scenes featuring penelope cruz (x4)nude scenes featuring shannyn sossamon (x3)nude scenes featuring sophie marceau (x4)nude scenes featuring vin diesel (x10)
Intriguing choices, though.
>canadian separatist diet >shrek 1 as a form of human existential approach
"These words… I don’t think you understand what they truly mean."
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.