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, July 2007 Total Visitors: 10,071 Total Pageviews: 18,683 (Corrected Total: 12,336) Total Hits: 22,187 Total Bytes Transferred: 406.9MB Average Visitors Per Day: 324.87 Average Pageviews Per Day: 602.67 (Corrected Average: 397.9) Average Hits Per Day: 715.7
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 numbers are noticeably lower than last month, which I blame on global warming.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 492 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 337 /reviews/2002/books02f.htm 297 /reviews/2005/reviews-2005-09september.html 199 /francais/index.html 181 /about.html 146 /reviews.html 139 /reviews/1996/books96b.htm 133 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 122 /ctact.html 121
Old reviews are popping up again. (There’s no accounting for 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 6063 (6885) Explorer|6 1380 (2155) msnbot|1 617 (722) Explorer|7 426 (682) Opera|9 322 (359)
Little change here.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 585 (988) www.google.ca/search 169 (253) wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 80 (63) google.co.uk/search 62 (91) google.com.au/search 33 (44)
Little change here either. Summer equals less people on the web.
No new interesting links seen this month.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
A bunch of spam came through the mailbox this month. Once that’s removed, we’re left with…
1. "S", from Los Angeles, reads my L.A. travelogue and is kind enough to send the following:
As a native Angeleno, I must tell you that I enjoyed your commentary on this, my fair city, Los Angeles, immensely–very funny! It was interesting seeing my city through "fresh eyes" as it were. I also appreciated your comments and insights. They are actually opinions shared by many of us natives. There is an unmentionable, yet self-evident, class system built into our city life. As an inner city teacher, I see it everyday. Speaking of which, I was very glad to read that you survived your South Central adventure (I’m sorry but I had a little chuckle at your expense)–good thing you stopped at Vernon.
On your next visit may I suggest bringing along your social anthopologist hat and "keeping it real" by checking out the highlights of cultural diversity in our city: 1) Dim Sum in Chinatown, 2) The Japanese American Museum in Little Tokyo, 3) The Plaza at Alvaro Street, and 4) the M&M Soul Food restaurant on King Blvd in the heart of a more realistic LA. Yeah–the real LA isn’t all that pretty. Really very few of us can keep up with the "Brenda and Brandon Walsh" BH types. But at any rate–the real LA is way more interesting!
Excellent recommendations, "S". I’ll keep it all in mind the next time I’m in your fair city.
2. A police officer read my formerly-skeptical review of Frank Camper’s Merc and sent along the following (which I’m selectively [redacting]):
I attended two of Frank Campers’ Merc School sessions [...] while employed as a Tactical Officer for a [...] Police Department. This Mr. Camper did, and with better insight to utilize military tactics in a light discretionary warfare situations which was perfect for dealing with armed gangs. I developed a different approach to open areas with large drug sales and it was highly successful. My Tactical Team was in high demand. We smashed several large groups dealing drugs from several locations in unincorported areas [...] The felony arrests went up. By attending this school, however, didn’t mean I wasn’t scrutinized by Federal, State, or local Law Enforcement, or by my own Department. But the arrests following my attendance at the Merc School increased by using those tatics Frank taught. [...]
What’s interesting about this is that not only does it reinforce my current belief that Frank Camper is exactly who he claims to be in his sometimes-too-good-to-be-true autobiography, it also highlights that Frank Camper’s camps actually did good things for police enforcement in the US. Not bad!
4. Search Queries Oddities
Here are our top-ten queries:
>sneak preview movie tickets 11 >advance screenings 11 >movie sneak previews 10 >free movie tickets 10 >free movie premiere tickets 9 >franoise yip nude 9 >free movie preview tickets 7 >being canadian 6 >christian sauve 6 >solaris explanation 6
No surprises here. Free movie tickets make the world go round.
Elsewhere in the web logs, I see the following gems:
>how to overcome being bored as a christian
Heh.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.