Ready for another look at the hum-drum routine of a practically unknown web site? 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, May 2006 Total Visitors: 10,240 Total Pageviews: 21,497 (Corrected Total: 13,449) Total Hits: 31,297 Total Bytes Transferred: 658.7MB Average Visitors Per Day: 330.32 Average Pageviews Per Day: 693.45 (Corrected Average: 433.8) Average Hits Per Day: 1,009.58
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. Most results are lower than last month, which isn’t a surprise given the abnormal linkage in April.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
christian-sauve.com/index.html 655 christian-sauve.com/texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 362 christian-sauve.com/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 323 christian-sauve.com/about.html 202 christian-sauve.com/reviews.html 157 christian-sauve.com/texts/100films.htm 148 christian-sauve.com/texts/solaris-explanation.htm 133 christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2004.htm 130 christian-sauve.com/texts/worldcon-2003.htm 123 christian-sauve.com/reviews/movies-2001.htm 120
Few changes this month.
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 5198 (4259) Explorer|6 3453 (2721) Explorer|5 242 (380) Netscape|2 220 (new) msnbot|1 220 (304)
Where is that Netscape|2 coming from?
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 958 (847) www.google.ca/search 290 (217) google.com/imgres 192 (135) google.co.uk/search 125 (171) ask.com/web 87 (81)
No new links were discovered this month.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
A small flurry of activity in my mailbox this month. Here it is:
1. Hazel, from Vancouver, writes to ask…
How can I get ahold of a movie for a group viewing early? I’m talking red carpet event minus celebrities.
My answer:
It depends what you mean by "early".
If "early" is somewhere between the theatrical release of the film and its release on DVD, specialized businesses such as http://www.acf-film.com/ (Canada) or http://www.swank.com/ (US) can help you organize group screenings. Contact them with details of your group (profit or non-profit, venue, number of attendees, etc.) to discuss the fee.
If "early" is somewhere before the official theatrical release of the film, then you will have to find out which studio distributes the film that interests you (check out the IMDB.com listing) and then contact the publicity department to arrange a screening. After that, every situation is so different that common rules do not apply: Naturally, the studio won’t want anyone to scoop the official premiere of the film, nor release the film to a small and indifferent crowd. Your chances of hosting such an event go up if your group has a link to the film (eg; "NYPD firefighters host a special advance screening of BACKDRAFT II" –think press release) or if you’re willing to compromise: in smaller markets such as Ottawa (500-900 thousand people), studios will often allow groups to "sponsor" the local advance screening for a fee, and in return the group gets a bit of publicity and a number of free tickets. Once again, this type of arrangement if best discussed with the studio publicity department, which will consider every request according to their current requirements.
2. An anonymous correspondent keeps it short and sweet:
http://duelofsqu.ytmnd.com/
Go have a look. (What? It made me giggle.)
3. A pseudonymous correspondent from Ottawa (hey!) asks…
i read about your weight loss routine. i’d like to know whether you walked the 15 k every day from april to oct, after you had acclimatized yourself to the long distances.
Part of my answer…
Oh no: not every day. I try to walk at least a brisk 15km walk *per week*. Despite my best intentions, I can’t manage to find more time than that to spend on the walks.
Keep in find that as the season advances, I usually go for longer and longer distances for those weekly walks.
(I should probably clarify that in the original article)
4. Finally, Stan from Melbourne writes to say…
I do spend too much time on line, just waisting time. What the hell I found you
…but his email address bounced back when I tried thanking him back for the find words.
…and that’s it.
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:
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No surprises here.
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My favourite time of the year: The two or three weeks where high-school students rip off my stuff for their class assignements.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.