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, June 2006 Total Visitors: 8,207 Total Pageviews: 15,500 (Corrected Total: 9,209) Total Hits: 21,998 Total Bytes Transferred: 495.3MB Average Visitors Per Day: 273.56 Average Pageviews Per Day: 516.66 (Corrected Average: 307) Average Hits Per Day: 733.26
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 lower than last month: I blame society.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 535 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 286 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 246 /about.html 140 /reviews.html 127 /texts/100films.htm 112 /reviews/movies-2002.htm 92 /reviews/movies-2001.htm 88 /texts/westercon58-calgary.htm 88 /links.html 87
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 4501 (5198) Explorer|6 2067 (3453) msnbot|1 275 (220) Netscape|2 240 (220) Explorer|5 238 (242)
I’ll ask again: 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 629 (958) www.google.ca/search 215 (290) google.com/imgres 144 (192) google.co.uk/search 67 (125) yahoo.com/search 57 (New)
New link: Once again this year, I was lucky enough to be mentionned (in passing) within Nicholas Whyte’s roundups of Hugo-nominated works at http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/Hugo2006.htm
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Two messages received this month are worth an exercise in contrast. First someone, from somewhere, asks…
where can i buy the movie squirm 1976 it showed forward me reply
…then Anthony, from Florida, asks…
I am desparately trying to find the title of a movie that I can’t name. Please help.
The movie is like a sequel to "The Right Stuff". Whereas "The Right Stuff" dealt with the space race prior to and up to the Mercury program, this movie takes off (no pun intended) from there. It deals with the space program in the Gemini and Apollo programs. I believe it was made in the same venue as "The Right Stuff", possibly by the same producers. What is the title of this movie?
Compare and contract indeed.
The first message can’t be bothered with even simple grammar, poses a question that presents no challenge (go ahead: type "buy squirm movie" in Google and see where it takes you. That’s right: Amazon. US$12.99) and can’t even be bothered to include an email address where I can reply. Sometimes, I swear, I think we should have warning signs over computers: You must be this smart to use the Internet.
Meanwhile, my second correspondent is reasonably well-written, provides enough information to make the question a challenge and even includes a correct email address where I can reply. My best guess for an answer, off the top of my head:
Couldn’t this be the 1998 HBO 12-part miniseries From the Earth to the Moon? It roughly stands between The Right Stuff and Apollo 13 in terms of content, and was produced by many people who worked on the latter film.
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:
good films 32 sauve 18 solaris explained 17 solaris explanation 16 free movie screenings 12 stomach shrinkage 9 advance movie screenings 9 being canadian 9 free movie screening 8 advance screenings 8
No surprises here.
is watching x-men bad christian
If you have to ask, I think it’s too late for you.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.