Spring has sprung, but what about 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 | 1,073 |
969 |
| Page Views | 1,506 |
1,383 |
| Pages/Visits | 1.40 | 1.43 |
| Bounce Rate | 86.49% |
85.45% |
| Average Time on Site | 0:50 | 0:39 |
| New Visits % | 89.28% |
83.90% |
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 | 9,908 | 12,039 |
| Total Pageviews | 46,343 | 60.547 |
| Total Hits | 57.210 | 77,115 |
| Total Bandwidth | 788.8MB | 984.2MB |
| Average Visitors/Day | 330.26 | 388.35 |
| Average Pageviews/Day | 1,544.76 | 1,953.12 |
| Average Hits/Day | 1,907 | 2,487.58 |
Significantly down. Ah, well.
According to Google, here are our ten most popular pages:
| # | Page | Requests |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 497 |
| 2 | /index | 161 |
| 3 | /1996/09/arc-light-eric-l-harry | 39 |
| 4 | /francais | 39 |
| 5 | /the-reviews | 38 |
| 6 | /the-about | 32 |
| 7 | /being-canadian | 22 |
| 8 | /essays | 16 |
| 9 | /2010/02/the-baroque-cycle-neal-stephenson | 15 |
| 10 | /reviews/2004/reviews-2004-08august.html | 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 even if you don’t Microsoft does), 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) | 386 | 330 |
| 2 | IE 8.0 | 256 | 191 |
| 3 | Safari (all) | 113 | 112 |
| 4 | IE 7.0 | 95 | 118 |
| 5 | Chrome | 95 | – |
Not only has Chrome gone back to fifth place (with IE6 a distant sixth place), but Safari beats out IE7 this month!
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 | 759 | 586 |
| 2. | yahoo / organic | 68 | 88 |
| 3. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 48 | 50 |
| 4. | books.google.com / referral | 8 | – |
| 5. | bing / organic | 5 | 5 |
(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. Ohhh! Visitor comments!
As 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 | 94 |
| 2 | solaris explained | 42 |
| 3 | christian sauve | 30 |
| 4 | solaris ending | 22 |
| 5 | solaris movie plot | 18 |
| 6 | solaris 2002 plot | 13 |
| 7 | solaris explanation | 13 |
| 8 | solaris ending explained | 12 |
| 9 | solaris plot explanation | 11 |
| 10 | christian sauve solaris 2002 explained | 10 |
A bit dull, really. Using my divination powers, I see that Solaris has been broadcast at least once on network TV this month.
Other odd, special, amusing or unexplainable search keywords: (Warning: Pretty dull month)
- caucasian view on quebec referendum
- is anthony bourdain christian
- is michael pollan a christian
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.