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, November 2005 Total Visitors: 6,985 Total Pageviews: 13,764 (Corrected Total: 9,098) Total Hits: 15,839 Total Bytes Transferred: 338.1MB Average Visitors Per Day: 232.83 Average Pageviews Per Day: 458.8 (Corrected Average: 303.3) Average Hits Per Day: 527.96
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, but don’t read too much into that — the pok*r referral spam lessened somewhat and the corrected total takes that into account.
Our top ten most popular pages are
christian-sauve.com/index.html 432christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 185christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm 159christian-sauve.com/texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 157christian-sauve.com/novel/index.html 156christian-sauve.com/reviews.html 147christian-sauve.com/about.html 121christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2004.htm 107christian-sauve.com/texts/summer-films1999a.htm 102christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-1997.htm 101
Few changes this month. Movie material continues to be a top draw. The only new thing is the /novel/ page, which was my daily NaNoWriMo journal as I wrote an entire novel during the month of November.
If you care about such things, (and who would not?), here’s a look at browser statistics for the month (by visitors, last month’s results in parentheses):
Netscape|6 2618 (2214) Explorer|6 2324 (2874) Googlebot|2 411 (346) Netscape|4 364 (New) msnbot|1 165 (New)
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 733 (812) www.google.ca/search 225 (220) google.co.uk/search 83 (75) yahoo.com/search 77 (71) ask.com/web 69 (64)
New new links this month. Other than the referal spam stuff, that is.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Rummaging through our mailbox, we see…
1. A sharp-eyed visitor from England notices my scientific take-down of Adrian Berry’s The Next 500 Years and adds…
Congratulations on posting (not merely catching) the time dilation howlers in Adrian Berry’s "The Next 500 Years". Alongside these two, I spotted his use of Kinetic Energy = 0.5 m v^2 for input values approaching c in the BASIC program that appears in the appendix. Slightly more entertaining (in a very sad way) was his claim that the origin of the factor of 1/30 in the reduction of energy required to lift matter from the Moon’s surface compared to lifting it from the Earth’s surface arises as the product of the ratio of surface gravities (1/6) and the ratio of escape velocities (1/5). By my algebra, this equates to the claim that "all astronomical bodies are the same density"!
Together, we can shame editors in hiring better scientific fact-checkers! (The two extra blunders have been added as an update to the review.)
2. Another fellow Sauve (From Minnesota) makes the trek to my site and sends…
Howdy, I’m a Sauve too. Just dropping a line. I was just searching domain names for "sauve" and came across your site. Amusing. Cheers!
Cheers indeed!
3. An award-nominated author asks…
I’m wondering if you’d be interested in receiving a review copy of this book?
Alas, we do not accept review copies any more. www.christian-sauve.com: your source for independent and merciless reviews.
3. The brother of a friend I haven’t seen in a long time writes to say (translated):
I read your essay on Canada and it’s pretty accurate and perceptive.
The last paragraph made me think about the role that Peter F. Hamilton gave to Canada in his Night’s Dawn trilogy; founders and guardians of an interplanetary gouvernment.
Sadly, my correspondent has a better memory about Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn than I do four years after reading the series: All I can remember on the subject is thinking that Hamilton’s apology for monocultural colonies was completely incompatible with Canada’s ideals.
But I did read the trilogy two years before writing my essay on "Being Canadian". It certainly stuck somewhere in my mind…
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:
>being canadian 10 >christian sauve 10 >solaris explained 9 >solaris explanation 8 >amazon isbn 7 >fight club book review 7 >advance screenings 6 >good films 6 >frank camper 5 >free movie premiere tickets 5
Not much to say here.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.