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 2005 Total Visitors 6,741 Total Pageviews 15,203 (Corrected Total: 9,378) Total Hits 17,181 Total Bytes Transferred 380.9MB Average Visitors Per Day 224.7 Average Pageviews Per Day 506.76 (Corrected Average: 312.6) Average Hits Per Day 572.7
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, which I’m seeing as a welcome correction given the end of the school term.
In any case, our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html 416 /reviews/1998/books98c.htm 364 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 286 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 188 /reviews.html 162 /about.html 138 /texts/100films.htm 138 /reviews/movies-2001.htm 137 /reviews/2001/books01f.htm 135 /reviews/movies-1998.htm 131
Few changes this month. Movie material continues to be a top draw. I’m as mystified as you are (well, okay; more mystified than you are) at the reason why old 1998 reviews could end up in the second spot.
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 2988 (3908)Netscape|6 1568 (1907)Googlebot|2 555 (450)Netscape|4 401 (1089)Explorer|5 352 (445)
Argh. Netscape 4 still there.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 1307 (1958)www.google.ca/search 343 (445)google.co.uk/search 148 (202)google.co.in/search 110 (New)yahoo.com/search 95 (120)
Not much change here. Google-India replaces Google-France in the Top-5. Overall decrease in hits from search engines.
Two new link this month: Someone wrote to ask me to explain the ending of Chip Kidd’s The Cheese Monkeys (see below) and then posted a link to my site on her blog. Have a look at hellomy.name/is/phoebe/ (Hm… Currently off-line.)
Then my name popped up in Nicholas Whyte’s annual review of the Hugo Nominees. Have a look mid-way down the list at explorers.whyte.com/sf/Hugo2005.htm
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Not much, but enough
1. Another Sauve wrote to say…
Always interesting to see the talents of others who may be connected genetically.
Thanks! (And for once, I regret my "anonymize all comments" policy, because the Sauve who wrote this is one stunning sharp-shooter.)
2. Poebe, from South California, wrote in reaction to my review of Chip Kidd’s The Cheese Monkeys to ask…
Hey – so you "get" the last page of "The Cheese Monkeys"?
I sure don’t and I’m cranky about it. Been puzzling for two days. Think it may have something to do with ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ – or maybe Himilsy was the fish? I DON’T GET IT!
Clues? Hints? Blatant explainations for the retarded?
Rather than re-print my answer here, go check my (amended) review for the details…
3. A pseudonymous fan wrote to state…
Against all odds, I found your website.
I like it. Keep up the good work.
Thanks!
4. Others wrote (in French) to ask about the current state of hard SF and to recommend the film CITY OF GOD (which, after following the recommendation, I can heartily endorse), but those topics are best covered at Fractale-Framboise.com rather than here…
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)
Here are our top-ten queries:
>book review snapshots from hell 12 >snapshots from hell book review 11 >good films 11 >amazon isbn 9 >free movie screenings 9 >solaris explanation 9 >advance screenings 8 >being canadian 8 >dave nichol 7 >canadian browsers 7
Not much to say here.
>10 must see films this summer
The way things are going, you’ll be lucky to find three of them.
>book review of snapshots from hell x6 >book review of snapshots from hell by peter robinson x4 >book review on snapshots from hell x3 >book review on snapshots from hell by peter robinson x2 >book review snapshots from the hell x2 >review of snapshots from hell x2 >review on snapshots from hell x2 >snapshots from hell x2 >snapshots from hell book review x6 >snapshots from hell peter robinson review x2 >snapshots from hell peter robinson x2
Some MBA class clearly had a book-reviewing assignement. I wonder how many of them tried to pass off the review as their own, and how many got burned by it.
>how to learn hacking examples from swordfish movie
No. No, no, no. Wrong.
>top 100 stoner films
Are there even more than twenty-five stoner films?
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.