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, March 2009 Total Visitors 7,433 Total Pageviews 23,939 (Corrected total 13,795) Total Hits 27,171 Total Bytes Transferred 506.5MB Average Visitors Per Day 239.77 Average Pageviews Per Day 772 (Corrected average 445) Average Hits Per Day 876.48
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 were significantly higher than last month, which I can’t explain. (Sunspots?)
Meanwhile, Google Analytics destroys my dreams and leaves me a quivering husk of lost illusions by pointing out that I really had only 806 visits and 1,300 pageviews. Oh Google; I liked you so much better when you just gave me good search results.
According to Urchin, our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html 993 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 282 /reviews.html 267 /contact.html 219 /about.html 215 /writings.html 208 /links.html 189 /search.html 179 /francais/index.html 147 /reviews/2002/books02d.htm 146
Little change here. Meanwhile, Google Analytics says…
| 1. | /index.html | 145 |
| 2. | /reviews.html | 78 |
| 3. | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 78 |
| 4. | /francais/index.html | 57 |
| 5. | /about.html | 25 |
| 6. | /contact.html | 23 |
| 7. | /reviews/2004/reviews-2004-08august.html | 22 |
| 8. | /reviews/1999/books99f.htm | 20 |
| 9. | /texts/100films.htm | 20 |
| 10. | /reviews/2009/reviews-2009-01january.html | 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 | 267 | 233 |
| 2 | Firefox (all) | 250 | 215 |
| 3 | IE 6.0 | 77 | 78 |
| 4 | Safari (all) | 50 | 41 |
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 589 (478) www.google.ca/search 121 (91) live.com/results.aspx 112 (70) google.com/books 76 (47) google.co.uk/search 53 (67)
As you may expect by now, Google Analytics has a slightly different view of the situation:
| Source | This Month | Last Month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | google / organic | 507 | 418 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 23 | 20 |
| 3. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 18 | 11 |
| 4. | aol / organic | 10 | 6 |
| 5. | google.com / referral | 8 | – |
(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 3170 links for "Christian Sauvé", down from last month. A look at the top-100 results showed no important new links.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Spaaaaam.
Otherwise, the biggest mailbox story of the month was a renowned SF writer writing to me to continue a decade-long feud with a renowned scientist. The details are elsewhere if you’re interested, because I’m not.
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | christian sauvé | 13 |
| 2 | christian sauve | 11 |
| 3 | solaris ending | 11 |
| 4 | solaris explained | 7 |
| 5 | solaris explanation | 7 |
| 6 | solaris movie plot | 6 |
| 7 | that bringas woman | 5 |
| 8 | "what the bleep" sauve | 4 |
| 9 | 100 good films | 4 |
| 10 | 100 good movies | 4 |
The usual.
#8 isn’t as stange as you think; I’m responsible for at least one of those hits.
Other odd, special or amusing search keywords:
- "acapella" christian submarine
- darkly masterpiece happy feet
- old montreal road and trim road+shotgun murder+sauve
(it wasn’t a good month for odd, special or amusing)
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.