Summer… over! Temperatures… falling. Web stats… boring?!?
1. Mmm. Numbers…
According to Google Analytics, the crucial metrics for the month are…
| Metric | This Month | Last Month |
|---|---|---|
| Visits | 1,320 |
1,381 |
| Page Views | 1,937 |
2,045 |
| Pages/Visits | 1.47 | 1.48 |
| Bounce Rate | 86.59% |
83.49% |
| Average Time on Site | 0:49 | 0:51 |
| New Visits % | 87.88% |
82.62% |
If you squint, you can see a difference between both sets of numbers. Otherwise…
For comparison’s sake, here is what my old-school Urchin stats are telling me:
| Metric | This Month | Last Month |
|---|---|---|
| Total Visitors | 11,909 | 11,708 |
| Total Pageviews | 58,359 | 53,065 |
| Total Hits | 77,981 | 76,026 |
| Total Bandwidth | 1.171GB | 1.183GB |
| Average Visitors/Day | 384.16 | 390.26 |
| Average Pageviews/Day | 1,882.54 | 1,768.83 |
| Average Hits/Day | 2,515.51 | 2,534.2 |
I squint and I squint… and yet I see nothing different.
According to Google, here are our ten most popular pages:
| # | Page | Requests |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | /solaris-2002-explained | 293 |
| 2 | /index | 190 |
| 3 | /how-to-get-free-movie-tickets | 125 |
| 4 | /being-canadian | 75 |
| 5 | /francais | 57 |
| 6 | /100-good-films | 56 |
| 7 | /alternate-hugos | 47 |
| 8 | /the-reviews | 44 |
| 9 | /losing-weight | 40 |
| 10 | /essays | 35 |
I should be pleased at how most of what I consider to be my high-profile essays and top-level pages are featured on this Top-10. Alas, that Solaris article still dominates and that drives me crazy.
Because 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) | 457 | 463 |
| 2 | IE 8.0 | 337 | 407 |
| 3 | Safari (all) | 170 | 194 |
| 4 | Chrome | 170 | 158 |
| 5 | IE 7.0 | 103 | 99 |
Ooooh! Dead heat between Chrome and Safari! Are we due for an upset next 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 | 962 | 937 |
| 2. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 41 | 55 |
| 3. | books.google.com / referral | 28 | 17 |
| 4. | yahoo / organic | 24 | 24 |
| 5. | espritvagabond.blogspot.com / referral | 12 | – |
(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.)
The espritvagabond numbers are a blip given how a friend linked to my Australasia travelogue a few weeks after I completed it.
Otherwise, no new noteworthy links this month.
3. Ohhh! Visitor comments!
The spam, the spaaam…
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | solaris ending | 32 |
| 2 | solaris explained | 31 |
| 3 | christian sauve | 28 |
| 4 | christian sauvé | 26 |
| 5 | being canadian | 22 |
| 6 | michael pollan in defense of food summary | 18 |
| 7 | solaris movie explanation | 16 |
| 8 | essay movies tickets | 14 |
| 9 | christian-sauve.com | 12 |
| 10 | how to get into the movies for free | 10 |
Pretty much routine.
Other odd, special, amusing or unexplainable search keywords: [Comments in brackets]
- dirty jason ["Dirty Jason" is the name of an x-rated web site. It's also right in the middle of "Cooking Dirty, Jason Sheehan", which I reviewed a few months ago. Arrgh.]
- can a federal public servant write satirical novel [Do I hear a challenge?]
- christian sauve beef sandwich [Hello, prankster friend]
Kind of a dull month in search queries.
Until next month, I remain… irresponsibly fascinated by web statistics.