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, October 2006 Total Visitors: 8,036 Total Pageviews: 17,426 (Corrected Total: 9,481) Total Hits: 25,566 Total Bytes Transferred: 552.6MB Average Visitors Per Day: 259.22 Average Pageviews Per Day: 562.12 (Corrected Average: 305.84) Average Hits Per Day: 824.7
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 slightly lower than last month.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 520 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 322 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 297 /about.html 213 /reviews/2006/reviews-2006-03march.html 190 /texts/westercon58-calgary.htm 138 /reviews.html 132 /reviews/movies-2004.htm 114 /reviews/movies-2001.htm 113 /texts/laser-vision.htm 110
Not much of a change 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 3804 (3657) Explorer|6 2751 (2767) Explorer|5 339 (304) msnbot|1 318 (246) msnbot media|1 91 (new)
These results should change dramatically next month with the arrival of Internet Explorer 7 on desktops. (IE7, which was released late in October, ranked up 6th with 80 visitors.)
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 1052 (955) www.google.ca/search 337 (272) google.co.uk/search 101 (111) google.com/imgres 94 (289) yahoo.com/search 62 (new)
The loss of hits from Google’s Image Search engine (imgres) can be attributed to me finally blocking their engine from scanning my images due to abuse by third-party hotlinkers. This also explains the significant drop in the overall statistics hits.
Otherwise, no new permanent links this months. (There were a few links to the Con*Cept schedules, but those time-sensitive pages are gone by now.)
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
There was actually a ton of messages in our mailbox this months. Dozens! Oodles!
Sadly, there were all spam messages (Grrr, spam), and that stopped once I paid attention to that particular problem.
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:
samantha ivers nude 30 being canadian 19 advance screenings 17 free movie screening 14 free movie screenings 13 sauve 10 solaris explained 10 billy madison movie script 9 advance movie screenings 8 100 good movies 8
I don’t write’em, I just see’em.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.