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 2005 Total Visitors 6,453 Total Pageviews 14,028 (Corrected Total: 8,859) Total Hits 17,368 Total Bytes Transferred 400.7MB Average Visitors Per Day 208.16 Average Pageviews Per Day 452.51 (Corrected Average: 285.8) Average Hits Per Day 560.25
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 slightly lower than last month, which continues the usual summertime lull.
Our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html 426 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 246 /reviews.html 167 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 147 /reviews/movies-2001.htm 140 /reviews/movies-2004.htm 122 /reviews/movies-2002.htm 121 /about.html 119 /texts/summer-films1999a.htm 108 /francais/ 103
Few changes this month. Movie material continues to be a top draw.
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 2480 (2499)Netscape|6 2076 (1985)Netscape|4 389 (519)Googlebot|2 378 (344)Explorer|5 307 (307)
Is Netscape|6 (FireFox) about to take the top spot away from IE6?
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 857 (1092)www.google.ca/search 201 (204)google.co.uk/search 117 (125)yahoo.com/search 74 (88)google.com.au/search 64 (58)
Not much change here. If the search engines don’t deliver visitors, the site suffers…
No new links this month.
However, the following is too good to pass up. Through an idle web search, I was able to track a probable case of creative borrowing by an energy lobbyist. Compare this segment of my review of Terence Moan’s The Deadly Frost…
…a gigantic Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tanker suffers a catastrophic accident right in the middle of New York Harbour, unleashing a cloud of cryogenized methane. As soon as the winds pick up, the gas cloud will make its was to Brooklyn and Manhattan, where it will instantly freeze solid everything it encounters. Oh, and any spark will detonate the entire cloud. Eight million lives are at stake. The Brooklyn beaches are packed. Rush hour is about to begin. Welcome to frozen toxic catastrophe.
…with this excerpt of presentation notes:
The plot goes something like this: A gigantic LNG tanker suffers a catastrophic accident in the middle of New York Harbor, unleashing a cloud of super-cooled methane. As the wind picks up, it makes its way to Manhattan where it will instantly freeze everyone and everything it encounters. Any spark will instantly detonate the cloud. Eight million lives are at stake, the beaches are packed and so on.
(I’m not providing the URL, given that it’s in PDF on a state government web site. But just copy-and-Google for evidence.)
While I admire the writer’s keen eye for editing adjectives out of my prose, an acknowledgement couldn’t have hurt, y’know? (Especially coming from someone working for, ahem, a company that on July 27th 2005, "reported second-quarter net income of $3,138 million".)
(There was also a bunch of spam referrals for poker sites, but there’s no point in listing those, isn’t it?)
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
It’s summer. People are doing off-line things. One single empty message gently floats down from our upturned mailbox. And we go back to drowsing.
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:
>amazon isbn 14 >carter catastrophe 12 >christian sauve 10 >free movie premiere tickets 8 >solaris explanation 7 >frank camper 6 >movie test screenings 5 >posleen 5 >asymmetric astigmatism 5 >free movie screening tickets 4
Not much to say here.
>anno dracula and review and christian sauve
Okay, this is scary. People aren’t just looking for reviews, but my reviews? What’s wrong with these people?
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.