So, what did the end of winter look like on this web site? Let’s check the numbers.
1. Mmm. Numbers…
According to Google Analytics, the crucial metrics for the month are…
| Metric | This Month | Last Month |
|---|---|---|
| Visits | 969 |
930 |
| Page Views | 1,383 |
1,477 |
| Pages/Visits | 1.43 | 1.59 |
| Bounce Rate | 85.45% |
87.10% |
| Average Time on Site | 0:39 | 1:00 |
| New Visits % | 83.90% |
88.17% |
Mixed results all around.
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 | 12,039 | 11,138 |
| Total Pageviews | 60.547 | 58,200 |
| Total Hits | 77,115 | 78,963 |
| Total Bandwidth | 984.2MB | 952.3MB |
| Average Visitors/Day | 388.35 | 398 |
| Average Pageviews/Day | 1,953.12 | 2,079 |
| Average Hits/Day | 2,487.58 | 2,820 |
More mixed results.
According to Google, here are our ten most popular pages:
| # | Page | Requests |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 184 |
| 2 | /index | 161 |
| 3 | /francais | 52 |
| 4 | /1996/09/arc-light-eric-l-harry | 31 |
| 5 | /solaris-2002-explained | 19 |
| 6 | /reviews/2001/books01i.htm | 17 |
| 7 | /texts/100films.htm | 17 |
| 8 | /the-reviews | 17 |
| 9 | /2009/09/the-lost-symbol-dan-brown | 15 |
| 10 | /being-canadian | 14 |
Again: 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) | 330 | 322 |
| 2 | IE 8.0 | 191 | 190 |
| 3 | IE 7.0 | 118 | 102 |
| 4 | Safari (all) | 112 | 131 |
| 5 | IE 6.0 | 70 | – |
Oh no! IE 6.0 beat Chrome by three lousy points to take the fifth spot! Die, IE6, die!
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 | 586 | 604 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 88 | 71 |
| 3. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 50 | 49 |
| 4. | bing / organic | 5 | – |
| 5. | contextsf.org / referral | 4 | – |
(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!
Like usual, Spaaaaam.
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | solaris movie explanation | 41 |
| 2 | solaris ending | 23 |
| 3 | solaris explained | 23 |
| 4 | christian sauve | 19 |
| 5 | christian sauvé | 11 |
| 6 | christian sauve solaris 2002 explained | 10 |
| 7 | “les rivières pourpres” site:christian-sauve.com | 7 |
| 8 | solaris ending explained | 6 |
| 9 | that bringas woman summary | 6 |
| 10 | the blind assassin review | 6 |
Well, ignoring the result at #7 (which is me testing a few things), at least it’s not all-Solaris-all-the-time this month. #6 is apparently explained by a YouTube comment telling people to search exactly for that string to understand Solaris.
Other odd, special, amusing or unexplainable search keywords:
- i need to read the epilogue of the fifth horseman
- was there a quote in the demon in the freezer in section 4
- what factors led to canadian confederation and why didn’t all north american british colonies join at first?
- what happened at the end of solaris movie
- what happens at the end of solaris film
- what is the american holocaust in the dale brown books
- what is the ending of solaris
- what is the main idea of freakonomics by stephen j. levitt and stephen j. dubner using steps
- what is the name of the movie that has a man who cheats on his wife and then is forced with things to do to get his kidnapped daughter back
- what is written on the side of the cheese monkey good is dead
- what were surgeries like before laser surgery was invented
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.