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, June 2007 Total Visitors: 12,057 Total Pageviews: 21,812 (Corrected Total: 12,895) Total Hits: 25,591 Total Bytes Transferred: 482.2MB Average Visitors Per Day: 401.9 Average Pageviews Per Day: 727.06 (Corrected Average: 429.9) Average Hits Per Day: 853.03
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 numbers are noticeably higher than last month.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 547 /reviews/2005/reviews-2005-09september.html 457 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 435 /reviews/2002/books02f.htm 306 /reviews.html 180 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 151 /reviews/1996/books96b.htm 143 /about.html 128 /ctact.html 128 /texts/being-canadian.htm 114
Not sure why my old reviews are showing but, but who am I to argue with popular taste?
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 6885 (5019) Explorer|6 2155 (1930) msnbot|1 722 (686) Explorer|7 682 (815) Opera|9 359 (510)
Little change here.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 988 (1234) www.google.ca/search 253 (291) google.co.uk/search 91 (116) wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 63 (83) google.com.au/search 44 (59)
Little change here either. Aren’t people getting tired of the Wikipedia link?
No new interesting links seen this month. Oh, a forum reposted a link to my "Free Movies" essay, but I was looking for interesting links.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
A bunch of spam came through the mailbox this month. Once that’s removed, we’re left with…
1. An independent movie director asking:
Would you be interested in receiving a review screener of [Movie] ?
No. See my review section’s Frequently Asked Question 7 for the explanation.
2. Some more spam sent by someone who hasn’t read FAQ 7:
[Novel Title] takes a look into the future. The Author has attempted to incorporate a scenerio, like the world has never seen. Most science fiction books/films focus on aliens or creatures from other planets. What if the force, we were compelled to fight; was a force of nature we needed for survival on Earth ? The Author was compelled to rely on technology, as are most people in the world. But could this problem really happen? Just looking at the most recent planetary/climate warming news, who knows? [Novel Title] is an Inspirational/Spiritual Science Fiction novel, and the Author hopes the book touches everyone in a special way.
Uh-huh.
"touches everyone in a special way"… too easy…
(I was actually going to wisecrack about this being "PublishAmerica SF at its finest", but a look at the novel title via Google tells me that this is indeed a PublishAmerica title. All hail the scum-suckers of the publishing world!)
3. An anonymous student writes…
thanks for the calculating god book review, im using it for my grade 11 summative because i have to read the book and state what other critics wrote, gj your site is cool
You, young person, are my hero of the month. From my web logs, I know that my reviews are "inspiring" (to various degrees) a lot of high-school essays. But you actually wrote to tell me so, and that makes me happy.
4. Search Queries Oddities
Here are our top-ten queries:
>christian sauve 16 >free movie tickets 14 >free movie screenings 14 >roderick thorp 11 >being canadian 11 >solaris explanation 11 >movie sneak previews 11 >movie sneak preview 9 >free movie preview tickets 9 >solaris ending 8
No surprises here. You’d think that after five years, people would actually understand SOLARIS.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.