I wasn’t really paying attention to my site in November (double-barelled illness, three trips and writing a novel will do that to ya), but apparently some other people were. Here’s the low-down:
1. Mmm. Numbers…
According to Google Analytics, the crucial metrics for the month are…
| Metric | This Month | Last Month |
|---|---|---|
| Visits | 1,668 |
1,320 |
| Page Views | 2,094 |
1,937 |
| Pages/Visits | 1.26 | 1.47 |
| Bounce Rate | 89.99% |
86.59% |
| Average Time on Site | 2:57 | 0:49 |
| New Visits % | 89.87% |
87.88% |
Slight improvement in visits and Page Views. I suspect some statistical anomalies in the “Average Time on Site”. Otherwise, same old story.
For comparison’s sake, here is what my old-school Urchin stats are telling me:
| Metric | This Month | Last Month |
|---|---|---|
| Total Visitors | 14,236 | 11,909 |
| Total Pageviews | 61,119 | 58,359 |
| Total Hits | 79,783 | 77,981 |
| Total Bandwidth | 1,119GB | 1.171GB |
| Average Visitors/Day | 474.53 | 384.16 |
| Average Pageviews/Day | 2,037.3 | 1,882.54 |
| Average Hits/Day | 2,659.43 | 2,515.51 |
Some extra evidence of higher visitors/pageviews, but nothing dramatic.
According to Google, here are our ten most popular pages:
| # | Page | Requests |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | /solaris-2002-explained | 592 |
| 2 | /index | 167 |
| 3 | /how-to-get-free-movie-tickets | 105 |
| 4 | /being-canadian | 80 |
| 5 | /nanowrimo-2010 | 56 |
| 6 | /100-good-films | 49 |
| 7 | /1996/09/arc-light-eric-l-harry | 49 |
| 8 | /alternate-hugos | 41 |
| 9 | /losing-weight | 33 |
| 10 | /the-public-service-in-science-fiction | 31 |
The /nanowrimo-2010/ novel-writing log is exceptional to this month. The rest is the same old routine, in largely the same order than usual too!
Because no one dares not 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) | 504 | 457 |
| 2 | IE 8.0 | 381 | 337 |
| 3 | Safari (all) | 327 | 170 |
| 4 | Chrome | 232 | 170 |
| 5 | IE 7.0 | 119 | 103 |
Look at that! Safari is within striking distance of IE8!
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 | 1,286 | 962 |
| 2. | en.wikipedia.org / referral | 56 | 41 |
| 3. | books.google.com / referral | 20 | 28 |
| 4. | yahoo / organic | 17 | 24 |
| 5. | bing / 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.)
Well, hello Google. Nice of you to bring three hundred more of your friends.
Otherwise, no new noteworthy links this month. A few hits to my novel-writing log came from my nanowrimo profile page.
3. Ohhh! Visitor comments!
Oh goodness, the spaaam, the awful spaaaam!
4. Search Queries Oddities
According to Google Analytics, here are the month’s most popular search keywords:
| Keywords | Visits | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | solaris ending | 58 |
| 2 | solaris movie explanation | 48 |
| 3 | solaris explained | 42 |
| 4 | solaris explanation | 31 |
| 5 | being canadian | 25 |
| 6 | christian sauve | 21 |
| 7 | christian sauvé | 20 |
| 8 | solaris movie ending | 19 |
| 9 | solaris movie plot | 18 |
| 10 | solaris 2022 plot | 16 |
Pretty much routine.
Other odd, special, amusing or unexplainable search keywords: [Comments in brackets]
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mushy, isn’t it? ace ventura
- we aren’t defeated by winter as canadian
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so.. we try again scott pilgrim
-
vision issues while driving lazers coming at me
Eh… not much of a funny month in the search queries.
Until next month, I remain… uselessly fascinated by web statistics.