Web Site Report

March 2007

2007, Christian Sauve

Ready for another look at the hum-drum routine of an obscure web site? Here are the monthly highlights for christian-sauve.com:

 

1. Mmm. Numbers...

My prickly "Urchin" web stats engine tells me that...

Report for: christian-sauve.com, March 2007
  Total Visitors: 10,287  
  Total Pageviews: 23,650  
    (Corrected Total: 13,402)
  Total Hits: 27,333  
  Total Bytes Transferred: 480.5MB  
  Average Visitors Per Day: 331.83  
  Average Pageviews Per Day: 762.9  
    (Corrected Average: 432.3)
  Average Hits Per Day: 881.7

The "corrected" numbers take out the CSS, robots.txt, PDFs, mis-filed graphic files (ICO, GIF, JPG) and other non-public files mistakenly considered "pages" by the statistics pre-digestion engine. All numbers are noticeably higher than last month.

Our top ten most popular pages are:

/index.html                         614
/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm       423
/about.html                         237
/reviews.html                       183
/texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 148
/francais/index.html                140
/reviews/1996/books96b.htm          133
/writings.html                      127
/texts/being-canadian.htm           125
/ctact.html                         122

The continued good showing of old, old, old reviews (some of which I repudiate) comes a mention on the Wikipedia page about Eric Harry's "Arc Light" novel, mentioned in January. (See below for correlation).

If you care about such things, (and who would not?), here's a look at browser statistics for the month (by visitors, last month's results in parentheses):

Netscape|6  4937 (4944)
Explorer|6  1639 (1337)
Explorer|7  814 (679)
Explorer|5  810 (534)
msnbot|1    803 (760)

I keep expecting Explorer|7 to surge forward dramatically, but so far it's been a relatively slow climb, month after month.

 

2. Where do these people come from?

Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were

google.com/search          1091 (1061)
www.google.ca/search        370 (312)
google.co.uk/search         100 (118)
wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 72 (93)
www.google.fr/search         63 (43)

No changes from last month.

 

3. Ohh! Visitor comments!

A little bit of spam and no legit messages in the christian-sauve.com mailbox this month. Sorry.

 

4. Search Queries Oddities

(This being the section in which we take a look at the search engine queries used by various visitors to find christian-sauve.com)

Here are our top-ten queries:

>rene angelil is of what kind of descent 58
>christian sauve                         24
>free movie screenings                   19
>advance screenings                      16
>being canadian                          14
>solaris explanation                     11
>free movie tickets                      9
>roderick thorp                          8
>movie sneak previews                    8
>how to get free movie tickets           8

The lone oddity here (about René Angelil) can be blamed on a radio trivia contest somewhere in the US. Suddenly, every listener just types the question verbatim in the search engine and clicks on as amny links as possible. 

>canadian book about baseball aliens and the mafia 
>nazi teddy bears

This almost sounds like fun.

>is it possible to take out your eyeball and not die

This, on the other hand, not so much.

 

Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain... obsessed by web statistics.