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, May 2009 Total Visitors 6,972 Total Pageviews 19,592 (Corrected total 11,537) Total Hits 22,417 Total Bytes Transferred 399.4MB Average Visitors Per Day 224.9 Average Pageviews Per Day 632 (Corrected average 372) Average Hits Per Day 723.12
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 slighly (and by that, I mean “nearly identical”) lower than last month.
Meanwhile, Google Analytics wastes its prodigious intellect by telling me that I really only had 708 visits and 1002 pageviews. Adding insult to downer, Google adds that this is considerably lower than last month. Then it kicks me for good measure.
According to Urchin, our top ten most popular pages are
/index.html 966 /reviews.html 316 /about.html 241 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 225 /writings.html 208 /links.html 204 /search.html 199 /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 170 /contact.html 146 /francais/index.html 138
Little change here. Meanwhile, Google Analytics says…
| 1. | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 119 |
| 2. | /index.html | 105 |
| 3. | /reviews.html | 47 |
| 4. | /reviews/index.html | 38 |
| 5. | /francais/index.html | 37 |
| 6. | /about.html | 25 |
| 7. | /reviews/2007/reviews-2007-11november.html | 22 |
| 8. | /texts/100films.html | 18 |
| 9. | /writings.html | 18 |
| 10. | /search.html | 17 |
…which is roughly consistent with the usual results.
If you care about such things, (And it’s important that you do!), 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 | Firefox (all) | 230 | 265 |
| 2 | IE 7.0 | 212 | 310 |
| 3 | IE 6.0 | 67 | 79 |
| 4 | Safari (all) | 47 | 73 |
Not much movement this month. You would think that I would make a fuss about Firefox being on top, but I won’t even do that.
2. Where do these people come from?
According to Urchin, our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 486 (688) live.com/results.aspx 94 (75) www.google.ca/search 80 (104) google.co.uk/search 64 (53) google.com/books 51 (74)
As you may expect by now, Google Analytics has a slightly different view of the situation:
| Source | This Month | Last Month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | google / organic | 430 | 595 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 26 | 22 |
| 3. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 18 | 13 |
| 4. | live / organic | 11 | 6 |
| 5. | anticipationsf.ca / referral | 8 | 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 3070 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 explained | 13 |
| 2 | christian sauve | 8 |
| 3 | christian sauvé | 8 |
| 4 | solaris explanation | 8 |
| 5 | solaris ending | 7 |
| 6 | solaris 2002 plot | 6 |
| 7 | solaris movie plot | 6 |
| 8 | glenn kleier | 5 |
| 9 | solaris 2002 ending | 5 |
| 10 | sauve | 4 |
That’s a whole lot of Solaris…
Other odd, special or amusing search keywords:
- “how to convert a conservative”
- “il faut blamer le canada” south park en francais
- a movie in las vegas with a wanna be formula driver gigolo
- explain how to win a small breakthrough in thirty days
- is it okay to watch the rocky horror picture show if you’re christian?
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.