Does a short month mean smaller numbers? Let’s find out!
1. Mmm. Numbers…
According to Google Analytics, the crucial metrics for the month are…
| Metric | This Month | Last Month |
|---|---|---|
| Visits | 930 |
1,076 |
| Page Views | 1,477 |
1,897 |
| Pages/Visits | 1.59 | 1.76 |
| Bounce Rate | 87.10% |
84.39% |
| Average Time on Site | 1:00 | 1:11 |
| New Visits % | 88.17% |
88.57% |
Yikes, even the relative numbers are worse.
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 | 11,138 | 11,476 |
| Total Pageviews | 58,200 | 74,483 |
| Total Hits | 78,963 | 99,289 |
| Total Bandwidth | 952.3MB | 1.122GB |
| Average Visitors/Day | 398 | 370 |
| Average Pageviews/Day | 2,079 | 2,402 |
| Average Hits/Day | 2,820 | 3,202 |
No doubt about it; numbers are lower.
According to Google, here are our ten most popular pages:
| # | Page | Requests |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 277 |
| 2 | /index | 170 |
| 3 | /francais | 53 |
| 4 | /1996/09/arc-light-eric-l-harry | 46 |
| 5 | /the-reviews | 36 |
| 6 | /being-canadian | 32 |
| 7 | /2009/07/in-defense-of-food-michael-pollan | 25 |
| 8 | /the-about | 23 |
| 9 | /category/reviews/bookreview | 19 |
| 10 | /2009/09/the-lost-symbol-dan-brown | 18 |
Interesting mixture of specific articles and top-level pages here, even though I wish the index would be ranked higher than the Solaris Explained article.
If you care about such things, (and let’s face it, few people 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) | 322 | 366 |
| 2 | IE 8.0 | 190 | 243 |
| 3 | IE 7.0 | 102 | 152 |
| 4 | Safari (all) | 131 | 111 |
| 5 | Chrome | 71 | – |
This faint cheering you’re hearing is me, celebrating the fact that for the first time in almost a decade, IE6 is not in the top-5 any more. Hurrah!
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 | 604 | 682 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 71 | 102 |
| 3. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 49 | 55 |
| 4. | ask / organic | 5 | – |
| 5. | books.google.com / referral | 5 | 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.)
Google results for “Christian Sauvé” were up slightly this month, with no new noticeable links.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Spaaaaam.
And that, again, is 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 | 54 |
| 2 | solaris explained | 20 |
| 3 | solaris explanation | 18 |
| 4 | solaris ending | 16 |
| 5 | solaris movie plot | 13 |
| 6 | christian sauvé | 11 |
| 7 | solaris movie ending | 9 |
| 8 | adam roberts gradisil sauve | 7 |
| 9 | solaris ending explained | 7 |
| 10 | solaris plot explanation | 7 |
The usual Solaris stuff, plus an amusing surprise at #8 (amusing, because it’s a direct link to an exasperated review of a book I wanted to like.)
Other odd, special, amusing or unexplainable search keywords:
- “killing lizards” utah
- all there is to know about being canadian
- are levitt and dubner really qualified?
- christians operating on deadly grounds
- essay on why i love being canadian
- jude law/robert downey slash fiction
- mark wahlberg science fiction book astronauts return to homosexual population
- sauve & debonair clothing inc
- what happened at the end of solaris movie ending explain
- what happens at the end of solaris movie
- what happens at the end of the movie solaris
- what is the movie solaris ending about
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.