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, December 2008 Total Visitors 6,474 Total Pageviews 20,464 (Corrected total 13,203) Total Hits 23,023 Total Bytes Transferred 428.6MB Average Visitors Per Day 208.83 Average Pageviews Per Day 660.12 (Corrected average 426) Average Hits Per Day 742.67
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 than last month: I blame Christmas.
But Google Analytics whispers "remain humble" and puts the monthly result at 661 visits and 1,050 pageviews, both lower numbers than last month.
According to Urchin, our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html 1066 /reviews.html 330 /about.html 291 /writings.html 285 /links.html 281 /search.html 275 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 193 /francais/index.html 166 /reviews/index.html 150 /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 150
Little change here. Meanwhile, Google Analytics says…
| 1. | /index.html | 112 |
| 2. | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 92 |
| 3. | /reviews.html | 60 |
| 4. | /reviews/index.htm | 59 |
| 5. | /francais/index.html | 50 |
| 6. | /reviews/2004/reviews-2004-08august.html | 26 |
| 7. | /contact.html | 25 |
| 8. | /texts/alternate-hugos.htm | 24 |
| 9. | /writings.html | 24 |
| 10. | /reviews/1999/books99f.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 | 219 | 270 |
| 2 | Firefox | 206 | 276 |
| 3 | IE 6.0 | 105 | 105 |
Same as usual, and not much movement in sight.
2. Where do these people come from?
According to Urchin, our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 484 (551) www.google.ca/search 104 (145) live.com/results.aspx 51 (93) google.co.uk/search 44 (54) wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 31 (39)
As you may expect by now, Google Analytics has a slightly different view of the situation:
| Source | This Month | Last Month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | google / organic | 438 | 501 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 21 | 33 |
| 3. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 17 | 16 |
| 4. | msn / organic | 12 | - |
| 5. | live / organic | 9 | - |
(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 3680 links for "Christian Sauvé".
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Spam, spam, spammity-spam in the mailbox.
But, also, a note of encouragement. Mark from Ireland writes:
keep up the good work, dip into your site every other month always worth the effort! have a good new year
Mark’s return email address sadly bounced, but here’s what I wrote back:
Thanks for the kind words. It’s always encouraging to find out that someone’s been paying attention.
There will be a few overdue changes to the site in 2009, including some that will justify more frequent visits.
(As soon as I’ve got some free time, of course…)
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | christian sauve | 14 |
| 2 | solaris ending | 13 |
| 3 | christian sauvé | 9 |
| 4 | solaris explained | 8 |
| 5 | solaris movie plot | 7 |
| 6 | glenn kleier | 5 |
| 7 | movie reviews 2006 | 4 |
| 8 | solaris explanation | 4 |
| 9 | 100 good movies | 3 |
| 10 | sauve | 3 |
Same old.
Other amusing search keywords:
- cinema transforming mouse plasticine advert
- has colin firth spanked anyone on screen
- how to dress for a sauve gathering
- reliable book reviews for prison writings: my life is my sundance
- www\jesus sauve’com
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.