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, September 2005 Total Visitors 5,881 Total Pageviews 13,058 (Corrected Total: 8,207) Total Hits 15,245 Total Bytes Transferred 350.9MB Average Visitors Per Day 196.03 Average Pageviews Per Day 435.26 (Corrected Average: 273.6) Average Hits Per Day 508.16
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 -given the fact that the holidays are over- is leading me to wonder what I’ve done to anger the Google gods.
Our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html 363 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 180 /reviews/movies-2001.htm 152 /reviews/1998/books98c.htm 128 /reviews.html 124 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 120 /about.html 117 /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 116 /reviews/movies-2004.htm 113 /reviews/movies-2002.htm 112
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):
Netscape|6 2214 (2076)Explorer|6 2013 (2480)Googlebot|2 345 (378)Netscape|4 263 (389)Explorer|5 223 (307)
Huh! For the first time ever, Netscape|6 takes 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 621 (857)www.google.ca/search 146 (201)yahoo.com/search 69 (74)google.co.uk/search 66 (117)ask.com/web 65 (New)
Google! Why have you forsaken me?
No new links this month.
There was a bunch of pok*r referal spam, though.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Two messages this month:
1. Frank from Boston comments, apropos something or another…
good service
I have no clue what this refer to, but I’m not too proud: I’ll accept the kind words.
2. James from Washington writes to say…
I just finished reading your article on "Being Canadian"
Now, "Being American" I found the article both entertaining and informative.
Thank you! It’s easy to write an article on the virtues of Canada and get a good reaction from Canadians, but getting kudos from non-Canadians means I’m doing something right.
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:
>solaris explanation x13 >solaris movie explained x10 >solaris movie explanation x9 >christian sauve x9 >amazon isbn x6 >frank camper x5 >being canadian x5 >amazon bookmarklet x5 >movie test screenings x4 >free movie premiere tickets x4
Not much to say here.
>what are a few meaningful quotes from the movie gattaca >what being a canadian is like >what is asimovs foundations planet at the outer limits of the galaxy >what is mathemagics >what is the ending to the book fever by robin cook >what is the relevance of the movie stepford wives to technological innovation >what is the thesis of the perfect storm by junger >when does the haloes back after prk >which countries were canada fighting against in ww2 >which passages page numbers motorcycle diaries edited later >who first settled in what now is know as canada >who wrote the song what is love that was featured in the movie a night at the ro >why canada shouldnt have a melting pot >why does a movie studio have a sneak preview of a movie
People ask the silliest things…
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.