A brand-new year! How exciting! Let’s see the numbers…
1. Mmm. Numbers…
According to Google Analytics, the crucial metrics for the month are…
| Metric | This Month | Last Month |
|---|---|---|
| Visits | 1,076 | 1,241 |
| Page Views | 1,897 | 1,984 |
| Pages/Visits | 1.76 | 1.60 |
| Bounce Rate | 84.39% | 87.3% |
| Average Time on Site | 1:11 | 0:51 |
| New Visits % | 88.57% | 90.9% |
Generally stable, then.
At the same time, my old-school Urchin stats are still around, and here’s what they are telling me, for comparison’s sake:
| Metric | This Month | Last Month |
|---|---|---|
| Total Visitors | 11,476 | 31,325 |
| Total Pageviews | 74,483 | 37,729 |
| Total Hits | 99,289 | 75,030 |
| Total Bandwidth | 1.122GB | 723.6MB |
| Average Visitors/Day | 370 | 1,010 |
| Average Pageviews/Day | 2,402 | 1,217 |
| Average Hits/Day | 3,202 | 2,420 |
Strange, isn’t it? Could this possibly be something explained by spam? Well, yes: A tiny number of visitors hammering comment spam will do that to web statistics. Moving on…
According to Google, here are our ten most popular pages:
| # | Page | Requests |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 256 |
| 2 | /index | 229 |
| 3 | /the-reviews | 78 |
| 4 | /category/reviews/bookreview | 50 |
| 5 | /francais | 50 |
| 6 | /1996/09/arc-light-eric-l-harry | 39 |
| 7 | /category/reviews/moviereview | 30 |
| 8 | /being-canadian | 28 |
| 9 | /2010/01 | 26 |
| 10 | /the-about | 25 |
This may not be obvious at first glance, but these results are solidly better than last month in that they show the consolidation (via clever redirects in early January) of old template content with new, with the notable exception of the Solaris Explained article..
If you care about such things, (and even if you don’t, I 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) | 366 | 444 |
| 2 | IE 8.0 | 243 | 236 |
| 3 | IE 7.0 | 152 | 175 |
| 4 | Safari (all) | 111 | 158 |
| 5 | IE 6.0 | 76 | 90 |
Chrome is is close sixth place, seven visitors away from overtaking IE6.
2. Where do these people come from?
According to Google Analytics, here are our main sources of visitors:
| Source | This Month | Last Month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | google / organic | 682 | 876 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 102 | 91 |
| 3. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 55 | 42 |
| 4. | carnavalboreal2010.com / referral | 21 | – |
| 5. | books.google.com / referral | 10 | – |
(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.)
The hits coming from carnavalboreal2010.com are the consequence of a one-time virtual event.
Google results for “Christian Sauvé” were up slightly this month, with no new noticeable links.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Spaaaaam.
And that’s pretty much the total for the month.
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | solaris movie explanation | 40 |
| 2 | solaris ending | 26 |
| 3 | christian sauvé | 18 |
| 4 | “christian sauve” | 16 |
| 5 | solaris 2002 plot | 13 |
| 6 | christian sauve | 11 |
| 7 | solaris explained | 11 |
| 8 | solaris explanation | 11 |
| 9 | solaris movie plot | 11 |
| 10 | solaris movie story | 10 |
Not many surprises here.
Other odd, special, amusing or unexplainable search keywords:
- i hope that doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone with a limited quantity of knowledge and a “necessary” attitude. although separation of a whole into different kinds of parts (i.e. different people) can lead to that attitude of a helpful reminder; some of the questions levitt and dubner study felt brilliant and then okay to me(but there are also some things talked about in the book that are really good).
- jet li slash fanfic
- christian hugo winners
- i dont understand the film solaris 2002
- saving private ryan slash fanfiction
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.