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, July 2006 Total Visitors: 8,691 Total Pageviews: 18,132 (Corrected Total: 12,039) Total Hits: 26,369 Total Bytes Transferred: 647.4MB Average Visitors Per Day: 280.35 Average Pageviews Per Day: 584.9 (Corrected Average: 307) Average Hits Per Day: 850.61
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 a touch higher than last month.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 485 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 413 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 384 /about.html 209 /reviews.html 166 /texts/westercon58-calgary.htm 145 /reviews/movies-2001.htm 132 /ccntact.html 127 /writings.html 125 /links.html 124
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 4784 (4501) Explorer|6 2622 (2067) msnbot|1 278 (275) Explorer|5 214 (238) Netscape|2 72 (240)
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 891 (629) www.google.ca/search 214 (215) google.com/imgres 205 (144) google.co.uk/search 101 (67) yahoo.com/search/images/view 52 (new)
No new links this month.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
A few comments here and there
1. Pseudonymous correspondent "alabamer" sends extra information about the subject of one review:
Reading the articles/review on Frank Camper inspired me to let you know something more about him.
(…snip…)
(Regarding the snip: I’m never too sure how much information to share about third parties. A Google search for "frank camper" and "retroracing" can sate your curiosity through public sources.)
2. Jesse from Austin, TX wonders…
Hey I am Just dropping in a few lines to say How can I get a free movie passes i never can never when them on radio/ or arrive early to get them on time @ diff. places giving them out…
…alas, everything I know is in the article.
3. Interestingly enough, I received two requests, a few days apart, asking about re-using some of the pictures I posted. First up was Xanthia, who wrote me as I was in Boston to ask…
I wanted to know if I could use your pictures of Boston.
…which was particularly amusing, given that I read his email while I was in Boston once again.
Then, four days later, Elizabeth asked…
I noticed that scattered amidst your report on 2005 Westercon you had some excellent photographs. I am planning a convention myself & could use a couple of extra photographs of the sort shown on your site.
Could I have your permission to use these photographs in my conference promotion? I could save them off the net if I have your approval.
In both cases, permission was granted without a fuss.
4. There was also a blank message and a spamming attempts, but those a hardly worth mentioning, 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 21 free movie screenings 18 advance movie screenings 15 advance screenings 12 samantha ivers nude 10 solaris explained 10 free movie screening 10 good films 8 christian sauve 8 frank camper 7
So, more people are coming to my site looking for nude pictures of an unknown actress than there are who explicitly search for my name? Good grief…
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.