Web Site Report – January 2009
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, January 2009 Total Visitors 6,657 Total Pageviews 20,673 (Corrected total 13,292) Total Hits 23,211 Total Bytes Transferred 447.0MB Average Visitors Per Day 214.74 Average Pageviews Per Day 666.87 (Corrected average 429) Average Hits Per Day 748.74
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 oh-so-slightly higher than last month, but well within .
Meanwhile, Google Analytics slams my head in a snowbank and twists by pointing out that I only really managed 702 visits and 1,069 page views, both slightly above December. You suck, Google.
According to Urchin, our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html 952 /reviews.html 246 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 246 /about.html 231 /cdtac6t.html 226 /writings.html 198 /reviews/index.html 196 /search.html 195 /links.html 192 /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 188
Little change here. Meanwhile, Google Analytics says…
| 1. | /index.html | 142 |
| 2. | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 113 |
| 3. | /reviews.html | 56 |
| 4. | /francais/index.html | 37 |
| 5. | /about.html | 36 |
| 6. | /search.html | 25 |
| 7. | /reviews/2004/reviews-2004-08august.html | 23 |
| 8. | /reviews/1999/books99f.htm | 20 |
| 9. | /reviews/2007/reviews-2007-11november.html | 19 |
| 10. | /writings.html | 19 |
…which is roughly consistent with the usual results.
If you care about such things, (Oh boy! Oh boy!), 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 | 252 | 219 |
| 2 | Firefox | 238 | 206 |
| 3 | IE 6.0 | 81 | 105 |
| 4 | Safari | 55 | (new) |
Same as usual, although I’m finally seeing some movement from IE6 to IE7. People with new computers, maybe?
2. Where do these people come from?
According to Urchin, our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 535 (484) live.com/results.aspx 118 (51) www.google.ca/search 110 (104) google.co.uk/search 55 (44) google.com/books 34 (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 | 474 | 438 |
| 2. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 19 | 17 |
| 3. | yahoo / organic | 18 | 21 |
| 4. | books.google.com / referral | 9 | - |
| 5. | twitter.com / referral | 7 | - |
(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.)
As the "twitter.com" source above suggests, there were a few new links to this site this month: I attended an event in a semi-professional capacity, presented a few thoughts regarding what I do at work and found my presentation twittered and subsequently blogged, with quite a few links back to this site. All good: I was able to send the blog report to my bosses as independent validation for my own event report.
Google now lists about 3550 links for "Christian Sauvé", slightly down from last month.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
It may be a new year, but the spam just keeps on piling up. One of those days, I’ll have time to implement my anti-spam plan.
But there were other things worth noting in the mailbox besides the spam. A few comments regarding the presentation mentioned above, plus a few anonymous words of encouragement:
wow i love how you critique these novels. I agree with you on hidden talents.
(Here’s my review of David Lubar’s Hidden Talents. It’s a clever YA novel.)
Plus Alain Miguelez, author of the definitive history of Ottawa-area movie theaters, A Theater Near You, wrote in to say that he has appreciated my review. Hurray!
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | solaris ending | 15 |
| 2 | solaris explanation | 11 |
| 3 | christian sauve | 10 |
| 4 | sauve.com | 10 |
| 5 | solaris explained | 9 |
| 6 | christian sauvé | 6 |
| 7 | solaris movie ending | 5 |
| 8 | solaris movie plot | 5 |
| 9 | www.sauve.com | 5 |
| 10 | glenn kleier | 4 |
Same old.
Other odd, special or amusing search keywords:
- "the departed" caprio spank
- assassin "science fiction novel" -atwood -moorcock -vatican -vogel
- baen tacky book covers
- canadian fantasy writer/janitor 2005
- clive cussler is a curmudgeon
- detectives solving mysteries with magnets
- post-apocalyptic domestic drama
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.