After last month’s changes, 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 | 1,197 |
919 |
| Page Views | 1,699 |
1,374 |
| Pages/Visits | 1.42 | 1.50 |
| Bounce Rate | 89.47% |
86.83% |
| Average Time on Site | 00:57 | 0:48 |
| New Visits % | 90.98% |
80.20% |
Good news all around; even the increased Bounce Rate and lower Pages/Visits is indicative of more visitors via the search engine.
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 | 9,201 | 12,692 |
| Total Pageviews | 48,672 | 63,809 |
| Total Hits | 62,705 | 78,507 |
| Total Bandwidth | 754.2MB | 1.045GB |
| Average Visitors/Day | 306.7 | 409.41 |
| Average Pageviews/Day | 1,622.4 | 2,058.35 |
| Average Hits/Day | 2,090.16 | 2,532.48 |
Harrumph. I was about to joke that the decrease in activity must be because of fewer spammers, but as a matter of fact June has been a quiet month on the spam front.
According to Google, here are our ten most popular pages:
| # | Page | Requests |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | /solaris-2002-explained | 269 |
| 2 | /index | 191 |
| 3 | /how-to-get-free-movie-tickets | 74 |
| 4 | /francais | 38 |
| 5 | /being-canadian | 35 |
| 6 | /the-reviews | 28 |
| 7 | /2010/02/nest-of-spies-fabrice-de-pierrebourg-michel-juneau-katsuya | 28 |
| 8 | /reviews/1999/books99g.htm | 24 |
| 9 | /1996/09/arc-light-eric-l-harry | 18 |
| 10 | /100-good-films | 17 |
Solaris-explained appears unkillable at the top of the ranking, although the more interesting entry here is the review of “Nest of Spies”, given the media attention given to the authors following this month’s back-to-back interest in foreign spying in Canada and G20 security.
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) | 358 | 299 |
| 2 | IE 8.0 | 290 | 188 |
| 3 | Safari (all) | 164 | 104 |
| 4 | Chrome | 135 | 94 |
| 5 | IE 7.0 | 111 | 87 |
Stability and good news at the same time.
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 | 790 | 609 |
| 2. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 43 | 46 |
| 3. | yahoo / organic | 40 | 40 |
| 4. | books.google.com / referral | 22 | 11 |
| 5. | ask / organic | 16 | – |
(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.)
Anyone doubting that the increase in this month’s numbers came mostly from Google indexing the new XML sitemap should take a look at the table above.
Google now gives 12,800 results for “Christian Sauvé”, up sharply from last time I checked. Somehow, christian-sauve.com went back on top of the results after a few humiliating weeks spent in #2 after a Facebook page. I’m thinking that the raft of updates to the site over the last week of June had something to do with this.
3. Ohhh! Visitor comments!
Not much spam, but the ones I got were from “ethical SEOs” (ah-ah-ah) trying to send me to the top of the search rankings.
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | solaris movie explanation | 42 |
| 2 | solaris explained | 30 |
| 3 | solaris ending | 21 |
| 4 | solaris explanation | 19 |
| 5 | solaris movie plot | 16 |
| 6 | christian sauve | 15 |
| 7 | solaris 2002 plot | 12 |
| 8 | solaris ending explained | 8 |
| 9 | christian sauvé | 7 |
| 10 | solaris movie ending | 7 |
My amazing powers of deduction tell me that Solaris was shown at least once on a popular TV channel somewhere in the anglosphere in June. Maybe it would be more interesting to show you the 11-20 spots from now on.
Other odd, special, amusing or unexplainable search keywords:
- i dont get solaris movie
- la vie exemplaire et héroïque de l’employé de bureau
- search babylon web vache
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain… obsessed by web statistics.