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 2008 Total Visitors 7,562 Total Pageviews 18,327 (Corrected total 10,624) Total Hits 21,616 Total Bytes Transferred 403.6MB Average Visitors Per Day 260.75 Average Pageviews Per Day 631.96 (Corrected average 366) Average Hits Per Day 745.37
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 lower, but per-average roughly the same as last month given the three missing days in February.
As usual, Google Analytics has a more conservative view of things, with just 1,054 visits and 1,471 page views.
Our top ten most popular pages according to Urchin are:
/index.html 611 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 300 /about.html 148 /reviews.html 142 /contactt.html 136 /reviews/1996/books96b.htm 121 /links.html 115 /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 107 /writings.html 107 /francais/index.html 102
No changes here. Meanwhile, Google Analytics says
| 1. | /index.html | 118 |
| 2. | /reviews.html | 101 |
| 3. | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 63 |
| 4. | /francais/index.html | 56 |
| 5. | /texts/alternate-hugos.htm | 41 |
| 6. | /reviews/index.html | 34 |
| 7. | /writings.html | 32 |
| 8. | /reviews/movies/2002.htm | 26 |
| 9. | /search.html | 26 |
| 10. | /about.html | 25 |
which is roughly consistent with last month’s results.
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), as provided by Google Analytics:
| Browser | This Month | Last Month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IE 7.0 | 344 | (331) |
| 2. | Firefox | 271 | (232) |
| 3 | IE 6.0 | 256 | (240) |
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 921 (966) www.google.ca/search 215 (254) google.co.uk/search 100 (107) live.com/results.aspx 73 (81) google.com/books 63 (72)
As you may expect by now, Google Analytics has a slightly different view of the situation:
| Source | This Month | Last Month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | google / organic | 696 | 669 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 29 | 25 |
| 3. | aol / organic | 16 | 13 |
| 4. | books.google.com / referral | 10 | 9 |
| 5. | groups.google.com / referral | 9 | (new) |
(Lingo key: "Organic" is Google’s way of saying that no one has paid for ads leading back to christian-sauve.com on those search engines. "Referral" is a direct link to this site.)
My "Alternate Hugos" list got noticed on a newsgroup this month, which accounts for those groups.google.com referals.
There were no other new links this month.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Empty February mailbox.
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| 1 | solaris explained | 14 |
| 2 | sauve | 11 |
| 3 | solaris ending | 11 |
| 4 | satire + "a scientific romance" by ronald wright’s | 9 |
| 5 | christian sauve | 8 |
| 6 | that bringas woman | 7 |
| 7 | ross laver | 5 |
| 8 | christian sauvé | 4 |
| 9 | frank camper | 4 |
| 10 | glenn kleier | 4 |
Other amusing search keywords:
- "squids in space" "space opera"
- "il faut blamer le canada"
- brian mulroney blood drinker
- is faune chambers a slut?
- starsky and hutch phrase "do it, do it"
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.