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, November 2008 Total Visitors 7,021 Total Pageviews 23,317 (Corrected total 15,627) Total Hits 25,779 Total Bytes Transferred 512.8MB Average Visitors Per Day 234.03 Average Pageviews Per Day 777.23 (Corrected average 520) Average Hits Per Day 859.3
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: I blame society. (In fact, this may be the best-ever month in terms of page views for this site.)
Ever-gloomier Google Analytics puts the monthly result at 781 visits and 1,169 pageviews, both higher numbers than last month. Still, there’s a reason why Google is known as a depressing party-pooper.
According to Urchin, our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html 996 /reviews.html 336 /contact.html 305 /links.html 303 /about.html 301 /writings.html 299 /search.html 295 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 232 /francais/index.html 167 /administrivia.html 154
Little change here. Meanwhile, Google Analytics says…
| 1. | /index.html | 140 |
| 2. | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 91 |
| 3. | /novel/index.htm | 67 |
| 4. | /reviews.html | 63 |
| 5. | /reviews/index.htm | 37 |
| 6. | /francais/index.html | 35 |
| 7. | /reviews/movies/2002.htm | 33 |
| 8. | /reviews/movies/2004.htm | 27 |
| 9. | /reviews/2004/reviews-2004-08august.html | 25 |
| 10. | /search.html | 25 |
…which is roughly consistent with the usual results. Only this month: /novel/index.html, which was a daily writing journal.
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. | Firefox | 276 | 262 |
| 2 | IE 7.0 | 270 | 262 |
| 3 | IE 6.0 | 105 | 100 |
(Don’t get too excited, Firefox fans. These numbers combine all versions of Firefox versus specific versions of IE)
2. Where do these people come from?
According to Urchin, our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 551 (563) www.google.ca/search 145 (110) live.com/results.aspx 93 (87) google.co.uk/search 54 (51) wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 39 (new)
As you may expect by now, Google Analytics has a slightly different view of the situation:
| Source | This Month | Last Month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | google / organic | 501 | 463 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 33 | 43 |
| 3. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 16 | 16 |
| 4. | aol.com / organic | 9 | 12 |
| 5. | books.google.com / referral | 6 | – |
(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.
Google now lists about 3670 links for "Christian Sauvé".
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Spam, spam, spammity-spam in the mailbox.
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | solaris movie plot | 12 |
| 2 | solaris ending | 9 |
| 3 | christian sauve | 8 |
| 4 | christian sauvé | 8 |
| 5 | solaris movie explanation | 8 |
| 6 | solaris explained | 6 |
| 7 | gold coast, demille. reviews | 4 |
| 8 | 100 good films | 3 |
| 9 | frank camper | 3 |
| 10 | hellboy/liz romance fanfic | 3 |
Same old.
Other amusing search keywords:
- does anyone understand the ending to the movie solaris?
- television drama – must be a dramatic movie; please do not select a half-hour or hour-long situation comedy, for there are often too many characters and multiple subplots, which would get quite confusing.
- that gorgeous bundle of sexy fun another scorching hot movie.
- christian books on how not to spiteful
- how do i handle christian book review in a book launch
- what comic strip character is dealing with ebola?
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.