Ready for another look at the hum-drum routine of an obscure 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, December 2006 Total Visitors: 10,076 Total Pageviews: 20,180 (Corrected Total: 12,137) Total Hits: 24,131 Total Bytes Transferred: 464.4MB Average Visitors Per Day: 325.03 Average Pageviews Per Day: 650.96 (Corrected Average: 391.5) Average Hits Per Day: 778.41
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 noticeably higher than last month.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 547 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 298 /about.html 232 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 183 /reviews.html 182 /reviews/2006/reviews-2006-09september.html 140 /reviews/movies-2001.htm 134 /reviews/movies-2002.htm 111 /texts/laser-vision.htm 107 /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 107
The September reviews ranking is an echo of last month’s controversies. The rest is pretty standard, except for the laser-vision essay which has never ranked higher in previous months.
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 5851 (3994) Explorer|6 1833 (2281) Explorer|5 574 (399) msnbot|1 412 (360) Explorer|7 406 (New)
Let’s give a hearty round of applause to newcomer Explorer|7, hopefully a permanent fixture of this listing until Explorer|8. May it replace previous Explorer versions and banish forever the existence of Netscape|4.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 1057 (1089) www.google.ca/search 310 (338) google.co.uk/search 101 (125) www.google.fr/search 51 (63) yahoo.com/search/images/view 42 (69)
Not much change there, and my updated robots.txt file telling Yahoo Image Search to stay away from my site doesn’t seem to have any effect yet.
It took longer than I expected, but Elisabeth Bear noticed my review of her Jenny trilogy and commented on it (rather graciously) on her blog. That made my "September 2006" reviews the most controversial installment ever, with at least three authors finding and commenting upon reviews of their work. I now live in fear, comforted by the extra riches of at least a dozen extra readers this month alone.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
A small but entertaining month in the mailbox this month. See for yourself:
1. In the "I’m not sharing those messages" category, I got a come-on to read a small magazine (sorry: no time) and an ex-teacher of mine made contact nearly fifteen years after I left high-school. Yay for the web and high-school updates!
2. In the "Frequently Asked Questions" category…
where can i get free movie permiere tickets for austin texas theaters?
3. Oh, wait, still about the free movie tickets essay…
WOW, you know what its funny because i am the same whan it comes to movies. Sometimes i even go more than one time a week. But my first thought is cool because i stay getting in the movies for free. If i can’t i will use someones tickets and call the theatre for free ones. I have vast connections and then its those times when you do have to pay(bummer). BUT with the things i know and the things i can do you might want to email me because we can reaLLY write a book.
Read the essay again. (Now updated with an abdication and contrarian opinions.)
4. Author Ryk E. Spoor wrote to gracefully acknowledge my mixed review of his Digital Knight and clarify a few points I raised. You can find a number of those clarifications as a post-scriptum to my review. Note to authors: I’m unusually susceptible to hand-selling techniques. I now have Spoor’s follow-up novel Boundary on my bookshelves, his note giving me the extra push to get a book I was leaning toward purchasing anyway.
5. Another person wrote in to ask whether I knew the whereabouts of his friend, ex-CIA spy Robert Baer. (A man whose books and active career partially inspired George Clooney’s Oscar-winning role in SYRIANA.) What can you answer to a request like that? I’m just a bookish shlub living in suburban Ontario, for goodness’ sake. "No!"
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 19 free movie screenings 15 solaris explanation 15 that bringas woman 11 advance screenings 10 free movie premiere tickets 10 good films 9 solaris explained 9 being canadian 8 billy madison movie script 7
I don’t write’em, I just see’em.
The world continues to be fascinated by the possibility of a naked Samatha Ivers and my site benefits. Funny how that works.
>do you think that sophie marceau would be interested in dating vin diesel >what are the differences between the book k pax and the movie >what causes bad dreams christian help >what features of venus would make it hostile to human life >what happened to canadas population after ww2 >what is the name of the male equivalent of damsel >what it is like being canadian >what's a good famous virus movie >what's the actual title of the 2000 jim carrey megahit grinch movie >what's the meaning of sauve >when was the first bus stop built in los angeles >where to sneak previews movies >who are the two female stars of the movie jackie browns >who does movie test screening >who is the protagonist in the novel called seabiscuit >will there be another titanic movie in 2010
It’s like getting a glimpse into the unanswered questions part of the noosphere, and it’s scary.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.