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, September 2006 Total Visitors: 7,867 Total Pageviews: 20,258 (Corrected Total: 10,956) Total Hits: 31,887 Total Bytes Transferred: 724.8MB Average Visitors Per Day: 262.23 Average Pageviews Per Day: 675.26 (Corrected Average: 365.2) Average Hits Per Day: 1,062.9
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 higher than last month.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 451 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 402 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 306 /about.html 190 /texts/westercon58-calgary.htm 165 /reviews.html 151 /new-york/day_1.html 142 /reviews/movies-2001.htm 142 /new-york/day_2.html 132 /reviews/2006/reviews-2006-03march.html 131
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 3657 (3446) Explorer|6 2767 (2815) Explorer|5 304 (274) msnbot|1 246 (367) Netscape|2 139 (156)
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 955 (1036) google.com/imgres 289 (252) www.google.ca/search 272 (225) google.co.uk/search 111 (179) images.google.ca/imgres 86 (new)
No new noteworthy links this month.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
1. An anonymous American writes to say…
It’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, silly goose.
Perhaps in your country it is, but up here in Canada we retained the original spelling.
(Although I must say that being called "silly goose" is wonderfully cute. I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face for about five minutes after reading this message.)
2. Tim Eldred, author of Grease Monkey, spotted my review of Grease Monkey and wrote in to say…
I just found and read your fabulous review of my graphic novel, Grease Monkey, and I wanted to throw a big fat thank-you atcha! Thanks for paying attention, giving it a chance, and spotting the hidden agenda therein! (I still vividly remember a comment from a colleague in the comics biz a few years ago: "How dare you write a fun comic book about nice people!")
I had a feeling the earnestness would pay off if I just waited long enough.
Cool!
But don’t take our word for it: Go read Grease Monkey right now!
3. There was actually a very nice message waiting for me in the christian-sauve.com mailbox this month: Funny, warm, friendly. I took the time to answer in kind… and then the remote server bounced back my message, telling me that I was a suspected spammer and that it wouldn’t transmit my message.
Grrr, spam.
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 35 samantha ivers nude 29 free movie screenings 11 advance movie screenings 10 florina petcu nude 9 good films 9 solaris explanation 9 solaris explained 8 advance screenings 8 billy madison movie script 8
I don’t write’em, I just see’em.
Those of you wondering about the strength of Samantha Ivers and Florina Petcu’s… assets can go watch INSIDE MAN. To quote from the film itself, "you don’t forget quality like that."
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.