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, February 2009 Total Visitors 6,001 Total Pageviews 19,320 (Corrected total 12,091) Total Hits 21,836 Total Bytes Transferred 414.4MB Average Visitors Per Day 214.32 Average Pageviews Per Day 690 (Corrected average 431) Average Hits Per Day 779.85
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. This being February, total numbers were down, but per-day numbers were up slightly.
Meanwhile, Google Analytics says I ain’t all that nor a bag of chips by pointing out that by their numbers, I had a pathetic 637 visits and 959 page views, again down by total number but up on a daily average compared to January. Oh thanks a lot, Google.
According to Urchin, our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html 732 /reviews.html 221 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 201 /writings.html 190 /about.html 187 /links.html 174 /search.html 163 /cdtac6t.html 161 /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 140 /reviews/index.html 133
Little change here. Meanwhile, Google Analytics says…
| 1. | /index.html | 101 |
| 2. | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 74 |
| 3. | /reviews.html | 58 |
| 4. | /francais/index.html | 47 |
| 5. | /writings.html | 37 |
| 6. | /reviews/index.html | 29 |
| 7. | /about.html | 26 |
| 8. | /texts/100films.htm | 25 |
| 9. | /search.html | 21 |
| 10. | /reviews/2003/books03i.htm | 19 |
…which is roughly consistent with the usual results.
If you care about such things, (Oh w00t! Oh joy!), 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 | 233 | 252 |
| 2 | Firefox | 215 | 238 |
| 3 | IE 6.0 | 78 | 81 |
| 4 | Safari | 41 | 55 |
Not much movement this month.
2. Where do these people come from?
According to Urchin, our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 478 (535) www.google.ca/search 91 (110) live.com/results.aspx 70 (118) google.co.uk/search 67 (55) google.com/books 47 (34)
As you may expect by now, Google Analytics has a slightly different view of the situation:
| Source | This Month | Last Month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | google / organic | 418 | 474 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 20 | 18 |
| 3. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 11 | 19 |
| 4. | anticipationsf.ca / referral | 6 | (new) |
| 5. | aol / organic | 6 | (new) |
(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.)
Google now lists about 3240 links for "Christian Sauvé", down from last month. A look at the top-100 results showed no important new links.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
More, more, more spam. Multiple times a day. Don’t they ever learn?
But the strangest spam I’ve received in months is this:
MISS [name] [familyname] MISS [name] [familyname] MISS [name] [familyname] [street address] WHITBY ANTARIO CANADA KANADA ONTARIO [postal code]
The [brackets] are mine and replace what could be personal information. Straaange.
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | solaris ending | 13 |
| 2 | christian sauve | 11 |
| 3 | christian sauvé | 11 |
| 4 | glenn kleier | 7 |
| 5 | solaris movie plot | 7 |
| 6 | sequel to the teeth of the tiger | 6 |
| 7 | alternate hugo | 5 |
| 8 | 100 good films | 4 |
| 9 | solaris explained | 4 |
| 10 | that bringas woman | 4 |
Same old.
Other odd, special or amusing search keywords:
- asian movies: nerdy girl meets sauve guy
- author ayn rand may have been a great fan of you number 1s, to have modelled her iconic characters like howard roark on you
- christian places to stay in boston
- i got simplified by loblaw
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.