Web Site Report – April 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, April 2009 Total Visitors 6,985 Total Pageviews 19,658 (Corrected total 11,294) Total Hits 22,016 Total Bytes Transferred 393.6MB Average Visitors Per Day 232.83 Average Pageviews Per Day 655.26 (Corrected average 376) Average Hits Per Day 733.86
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 lower than last month, which I blame on fibre-eating badgers.
Meanwhile, Google Analytics slaps me on the head by using its sophisticated algorithms to prove that I really had only 883 visits and 1,464 pageviews. This may be a downer, but Google, at least, thinks my stats are up from last month.
According to Urchin, our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html 804 /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 323 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 219 /reviews.html 210 /about.html 179 /contact.html 178 /links.html 174 /writings.html 168 /search.html 162 /francais/index.html 114
Little change here. Meanwhile, Google Analytics says…
| 1. | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 257 |
| 2. | /reviews/index.html | 197 |
| 3. | /index.html | 116 |
| 4. | /francais/index.html | 42 |
| 5. | /reviews.html | 41 |
| 6. | /contact.html | 22 |
| 7. | /reviews/2004/reviews-2004-08august.html | 22 |
| 8. | /links.htm | 21 |
| 9. | /reviews/2003/books03j.htm | 18 |
| 10. | /search.html | 17 |
…which is roughly consistent with the usual results.
If you care about such things, (And you should!), 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 | 310 | 267 |
| 2 | Firefox (all) | 265 | 250 |
| 3 | IE 6.0 | 79 | 77 |
| 4 | Safari (all) | 73 | 50 |
Not much movement this month, although the surge in Safari visitors may or may not mean anything.
2. Where do these people come from?
According to Urchin, our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 688 (589) www.google.ca/search 104 (121) live.com/results.aspx 75 (112) google.com/books 74 (76) google.co.uk/search 53 (53)
As you may expect by now, Google Analytics has a slightly different view of the situation:
| Source | This Month | Last Month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | google / organic | 595 | 507 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 22 | 23 |
| 3. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 13 | 18 |
| 4. | aol / organic | 6 | 10 |
| 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.)
Google now lists about 3130 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. It just never stops.
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | solaris ending | 13 |
| 2 | solaris movie plot | 11 |
| 3 | solaris explained | 11 |
| 4 | solaris explanation | 7 |
| 5 | christian sauve | 7 |
| 6 | christian sauvé | 6 |
| 7 | glenn kleier | 5 |
| 8 | solaris movie ending | 4 |
| 9 | solaris 2002 plot | 4 |
| 10 | solaris movie explained | 4 |
So… do you think SOLARIS was shown at least once on TV this month?
Other odd, special or amusing search keywords:
- is "who am i" the most asked question on web
- what does a christian man with a computer science degree do?
- what was the point of the movie solaris
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.