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, February 2007 Total Visitors 9,334 Total Pageviews 21,185 (Corrected Total: 10,954) Total Hits 25,486 Total Bytes Transferred 468.1MB Average Visitors Per Day 333.35 Average Pageviews Per Day 756.6 (Corrected Average: 391.2) Average Hits Per Day 910.21
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. Taking in account the shorter month, most numbers are slightly higher than last month.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 535 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 376 /reviews.html 183 /about.html 172 /reviews/1996/books96b.htm 166 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 144 /search.html 141 /boreal/ 136 /ctact.html 124 /francais/index.html 113
The continued good showing of old, old, old reviews (some of which I repudiate) comes a mention on the Wikipedia page about Eric Harry’s "Arc Light" novel, mentioned last month. (See below for correlation).
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 4944 (5314) Explorer|6 1337 (1587) msnbot|1 760 (524) Explorer|7 676 (665) Explorer|5 534 (442)
Explorer|7 continues its slow climb up the charts.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 1061 (1130) www.google.ca/search 312 (373) google.co.uk/search 118 (116) wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 93 (97) www.google.fr/search 43 (54)
No changes from last month.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Other than a blissful and unexpected respite from spam, there wasn’t much of note in the christian-sauve.com mailbox this month. For instance…
1. Evon, writing from a US federal government address, asked:
Do you have a list of sites where I can get free movie tickets or see the preview in washington dc.
Um, no. Re-read the last paragraph of the essay, please.
2. Otherwise-anonymous american Eric wrote to state:
Read your review of the Gemini Man. Dumb.
At first, I didn’t know whether he was calling The Gemini Man dumb, or rather refered to my review. Then it stuck me: Eric is a man of few words. He obviously meant both! A dumb review of a dumb book!
Then I felt much better.
3. Finally, Michael from New Jersey wrote to announce:
I’ve created a custom google search engine that only searches independent movie review websites. Your site is included. Check it out at www.miconian.com/tools/indie_reviewers.html
Though I first thought this was just another piece of spam, I looked at the site and found both a pretty cool targeted search engine and a fun movie blog. Check it out indeed!
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 21 christian sauve 15 movie sneak previews 14 advance screenings 13 advance movie screenings 11 solaris explanation 8 solaris explained 8 free movie premiere tickets 8 southern california christian men that spank 8 free movie preview tickets 7
Ooookay. Note to everyone searching for "southern california christian men that spank": Stop clicking on my site. You’re freaking me out. Thanks.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.