Web Site Report
April 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, April 2007
Total Visitors: 9,608
Total Pageviews: 20,186
(Corrected Total: 9,989)
Total Hits: 25,304
Total Bytes Transferred: 440.5MB
Average Visitors Per Day: 320.26
Average Pageviews Per Day: 672.86
(Corrected Average: 333.0)
Average Hits Per Day: 843.46
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 lower than last month, which I blame on society.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 527 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 359 /about.html 178 /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 144 /reviews.html 141 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 140 /reviews/2002/books02f.htm 128 /reviews/1997/books97b.htm 117 /reviews/1996/books96b.htm 95 /francais/index.html 82
I continue to repudiate the old reviews that show up here for little reason.
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 4829 (4944) Explorer|6 1696 (1639) Explorer|7 867 (814) msnbot|1 678 (803) Opera|9 266 (New)
Little change here. Hello, Opera|9 users!
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 1105 (1091) www.google.ca/search 297 (370) google.co.uk/search 140 (100) wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 53 (72) google.com.au/search 52 (New)
Little changes from last month. I'm still amused at how much traffic Wikipedia sends my way regarding a little-known thriller.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
A little bit of spam, personal messages and...
1. After reading my 2001 trip to New York, an anonymous visitor adds:
J'ai lu sur ton voyage a New York. Je suis alle moi meme a New York deux fois en 2005 et en 2006 et j'y retourne dans 2 semaines...mais je te le jure si tu pense que c'est cher la-bas as-tu deja visiter l'Europe? Plus particulierement le Royaume-Uni? La c'est cher!!! New York c'est rien a comparer!!
Shorter translation:
If you think New York is expensive, it's nothing compared to Europe!
My answer:
Yes.
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:
>solaris explanation 20 >solaris explained 16 >being canadian 15 >advance screenings 14 >free movie screenings 14 >christian sauve 11 >free movie tickets 11 >movie sneak previews 11 >solaris ending 11 >advanced movie screenings 6
Now there's humility for you: Three essays (about free movie tickets, explaining the Solaris movie and being canadian) account for nine out of the ten top search queries here.
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain... obsessed by web statistics.