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, January 2007 Total Visitors 9,679 Total Pageviews 21,244 (Corrected Total: 11,762) Total Hits 25,161 Total Bytes Transferred 452.7MB Average Visitors Per Day 312.22 Average Pageviews Per Day 685.29 (Corrected Average: 379.4) Average Hits Per Day 811.64
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. Most numbers are slightly lower than last month.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 540 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 328 /reviews.html 207 /about.html 203 /reviews/1996/books96b.htm 161 /reviews/movies-2001.htm 128 /links.html 125 /francais/index.html 124 /writings.html 119 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 117
The unexpected show of old, old, old reviews (some of which I repudiate) comes from a Wikipedia mention, more about which is to be found below.
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 5314 (5851) Explorer|6 1587 (1833) Explorer|7 665 (406) msnbot|1 524 (412) Explorer|5 442 (574)
Explorer|7 continues to climb up the charts.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 1130 (1057) www.google.ca/search 373 (310) google.co.uk/search 116 (101) wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 97 www.google.fr/search 54 (51)
You’re surprised to see Wikipedia cite me as an authority on Eric L. Harry’s Arc Light? Well, imagine my surprise at seeing a ten-year-old review dredged up as a noteworthy reference! I keep waiting for someone to remove the link and reveal me as a fraud. (Especially now that I’ve gone back and rewrote the review to my current "standards" of "quality".)
In other "you may not want to link to my reviews" news, author David Louis Edelman spotted my positive-but-not-enthusiastic review of his Infoquake and used the money line of the review on his book blog and Infoquake‘s Amazon "plog" for a total of about six different URLs that I can see from here. Can a quote on the paperback edition be far behind? (A good thing that I actually meant what I wrote. On the other hand, I can’t help but consider the source of the review…) At least Edelman has the good taste of describing me as merely an "SF blogger". Whew!
(If you want a hilarious third-party consideration of my credentials, go to the "Discussion" page of the Wikipedia "James Robert Baker" article, where I’m mercilessly described as "a published author who reviews cinema and books for Solaris (magazine)". It’s true, but it still doesn’t make me an authority.)
One conspicuous absence was the pretty definitive lack of references from image search engines: Looks like my upgraded robots.txt file did the trick after a few weeks. (The lack of image-related links may also explain the slightly lower numbers this month. Good.)
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Aside from the spam, there wasn’t much in the christian-sauve.com mailbox this month. What was left was pure quality, but really can’t be shared with you (even the best of you) as it was all about old friends and new clients making contact.
On the other hand, one visitor’s comments made me add a few lines to my Solaris Explained essay. Go and have a look over there for the details.
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:
christian sauve 18 samantha ivers nude 14 sauve 10 frank camper 9 being canadian 9 stomach shrinkage 9 advance screenings 8 solaris explanation 8 ftaires 7 advance movie screenings 7
Ha, take that Samatha Ivers! I rule over my own web site!
"Ftaires", in case you wonder, is a reference to one of the scariest lines in Mark Danielewski’s House of Leaves(mentionned in my review of the book). I am completely mystified as to why it would suddenly become a hot search items just now. Maybe a contest or academic exercise of some sort?
>what happened to himillsy cheese monkeys >what happens if you overcorrect during lasik eye surgery >what is mitch rapp from transfer of power afraid of >what is the song that comes on when the 2004 movie cellular ends >what is the thesis for bridget jones's diary >what to eat for losing flab and weight >what's better 2020 vision or 15:20 vision >where abouts is the league of gentlemen filmed >where can i read about the comparisons of the movie holes and the book >which sport was the theme for the 1999 film mystery alaska >who wrote the 2006 novel free fall >why is my oscar fish sedate
Like Zen koans, some of those questions are best left contemplated than answered.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.