Now that I’m paying attention to this web site again, 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 | 919 |
1,073 |
| Page Views | 1,374 |
1,506 |
| Pages/Visits | 1.50 | 1.40 |
| Bounce Rate | 86.83% |
86.49% |
| Average Time on Site | 0:48 | 0:50 |
| New Visits % | 80.20% |
89.28% |
Generally lower results. Oh, well.
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 | 12,692 | 9,908 |
| Total Pageviews | 63,809 | 46,343 |
| Total Hits | 78,507 | 57,210 |
| Total Bandwidth | 1.045GB | 788.8MB |
| Average Visitors/Day | 409.41 | 330.26 |
| Average Pageviews/Day | 2,058.35 | 1,544.76 |
| Average Hits/Day | 2,532.48 | 1,907 |
Ha! You liiie, Google.
According to Google, here are our ten most popular pages:
| # | Page | Requests |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | /index | 269 |
| 2 | /texts/solaris-explanation.htm | 191 |
| 3 | /solaris-2002-explained/ | 74 |
| 4 | /being-canadian | 38 |
| 5 | /francais | 35 |
| 6 | /1996/09/arc-light-eric-l-harry | 28 |
| 7 | /the-about | 28 |
| 8 | /the-reviews | 24 |
| 9 | /essays | 18 |
| 10 | /2010/02/ | 17 |
Pretty much the same old stuff, although this is the last time you will see a good-old .htm file here, as I wiped out the remainder of the old static site while cleaning up the site during the month. (I also made other changes, including an automated site-map, that should prove significant over the next months.)
Since I know you care, 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) | 299 | 386 |
| 2 | IE 8.0 | 188 | 256 |
| 3 | Safari (all) | 104 | 113 |
| 4 | Chrome | 94 | 95 |
| 5 | IE 7.0 | 87 | 95 |
Chrome in fourth place, IE7 on its way out… everything is going according to plan.
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 | 609 | 759 |
| 2. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 46 | 48 |
| 3. | yahoo / organic | 40 | 68 |
| 4. | books.google.com / referral | 11 | 8 |
| 5. | bing / organic | 6 | 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 has started indexing more pages from the site, no doubt prompted by my new automated site-map. This should drive search referrals up in the next few months.
The one significant Google-egosurfing event of the month is that for the first time in a decade, christian-sauve.com is not the first result for “Christian Sauvé”, having been replaced by (ack, ptui!) a Facebook page. In identity-theft terms, though, I consider this to be excellent news. Heh-heh-heh…
3. Ohhh! Visitor comments!
Not as much spam as I used to get, (I made a few changes that should keep me mostly-spamless for a few weeks/months) although reader “Mike” took pity on me and sent me Monty Python’s Spam song to offset that gaping void in my life. You’re evil, Mike. Don’t change.
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | solaris 2002 plot | 56 |
| 2 | solaris movie explanation | 35 |
| 3 | christian sauve | 33 |
| 4 | solaris ending | 21 |
| 5 | solaris explained | 16 |
| 6 | adam roberts gradisil sauve | 14 |
| 7 | christian sauvé | 13 |
| 8 | solaris explanation | 8 |
| 9 | top 100 christian movies | 8 |
| 10 | aboriginal people and a canadian identity essay | 7 |
More Solaris… sigh. On the other hand, “adam roberts gradisil sauve” makes me giggle, because I really, really, really didn’t like that novel, and it looks as if someone noticed.
Other odd, special, amusing or unexplainable search keywords:
- “she’s turning into a tree”
- christian sauvé pavé
- the adrenaline rush while writing a novel
- what is the movie called where the guy eats mcdonalds for thirty days straight
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.