Ready for another look at the dull 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, October 2008 Total Visitors 6,657 Total Pageviews 22,368 (Corrected total 14,340) Total Hits 24,903 Total Bytes Transferred 485.5MB Average Visitors Per Day 214.74 Average Pageviews Per Day 721.54 (Corrected average 462) Average Hits Per Day 803.32
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 higher than last month, which mystifies but does not worry me.
Ever-gloomier Google Analytics puts the monthly result at 744 visits and 1,066 pageviews, both higher numbers than last month. Still, there’s a reason why Google never gets invited to the best parties.
According to Urchin, our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html 874 /reviews.html 330 /links.html 301 /about.html 299 /search.html 285 /writings.html 280 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 233 /texts/amazon-bookmarklet.htm 141 /francais/index.html 130 /administrivia.html 114
Little change here. Meanwhile, Google Analytics says…
| 1. | /index.html | 124 |
| 2. | /reviews.html | 61 |
| 3. | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 56 |
| 4. | /francais/index.html | 37 |
| 5. | /reviews/index.htm | 28 |
| 6. | /reviews/movies/2002.htm | 25 |
| 7. | /search.html | 25 |
| 8. | /texts/100films.htm | 24 |
| 9. | /reviews/2004/reviews-2004-08august.html | 23 |
| 10. | /reviews/movies/2000.htm | 23 |
…which is roughly consistent with the usual results.
If you care about such things, (and who would not?), here’s a look at browser statistics for the month (by visitors), as provided by the clever gerbils at Google Analytics:
| Browser | This Month | Last Month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IE 7.0 | 262 | 211 |
| 2. | Firefox | 262 | 200 |
| 3 | IE 6.0 | 100 | 137 |
(Safari remains in perennial fourth place at 47.)
2. Where do these people come from?
According to Urchin, our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 563 (632) www.google.ca/search 110 (121) live.com/results.aspx 87 (90) google.co.uk/search 51 (68) yahoo.com/search 39 (30)
As you may expect by now, Google Analytics has a slightly different view of the situation:
| Source | This Month | Last Month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | google / organic | 463 | 454 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 43 | 24 |
| 3. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 16 | 14 |
| 4. | aol.com / organic | 12 | 9 |
| 5. | stumbleupon.com / referral | 10 | – |
(Lingo key: "Organic" is Google’s way of saying that no one has paid for links leading back to christian-sauve.com on those search engines. "Referral" is supposed to be a direct link to this site.)
No new significant links to me this month, although "Christian Sauvé" has gone from a fairly rare search result to about 3,410 hits on a dozen different Christian Sauvés.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
More spam in the mailbox. A lot more spam.
Plus! A self-published author oh-so-generously offering a copy of his book, obvious having avoided my whole "no, I don’t want your book" speech.
Plus! A 9/11 conspiracy theorist offering me hot tips on THE TRUTH!!1 WAKE UP SHEEPLE1!!!1
Plus! A cryptic (cryptic as in illiterate, not mysterious) message telling me to urgently get in contact with a spammer.
So, no, not much in the mailbox.
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | christian sauvé | 8 |
| 2 | christian sauve | 6 |
| 3 | solaris ending | 6 |
| 4 | solaris explained | 5 |
| 5 | 100 good films | 4 |
| 6 | gold coast, demille. reviews | 4 |
| 7 | solaris movie explanation | 4 |
| 8 | plaguers spotlight | 3 |
| 9 | solaris explanation | 3 |
| 10 | solaris movie plot | 3 |
Same old.
Other amusing search keywords:
- does anyone understand the ending to the movie solaris?
- a darkness more than light by michael connelly and hugo award
- elf critical critics movie elf stupid pointless bad will ferrell
- what is the ring representing in lord of the rings (rotk) from a christian perspective
- when a christian is threatened with bodily harm by another christian
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.