Web Site Report
May 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, May 2007
Total Visitors: 10,382
Total Pageviews: 21,183
(Corrected Total: 11,701)
Total Hits: 23,876
Total Bytes Transferred: 415.1MB
Average Visitors Per Day: 334.9
Average Pageviews Per Day: 683.32
(Corrected Average: 377.5)
Average Hits Per Day: 770.19
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 542 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 332 /reviews/2002/books02f.htm 254 /reviews.html 174 /about.html 147 /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 144 /reviews/1996/books96b.htm 134 /reviews/2005/reviews-2005-09september.html 131 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 126 /ctact.html 120
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 5019 (4829) Explorer|6 1930 (1696) Explorer|7 815 (867) msnbot|1 686 (678) Opera|9 510 (266)
No change here.
2. Where do these people come from?
Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were
google.com/search 1234 (1105) www.google.ca/search 291 (297) google.co.uk/search 116 (140) wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 83 (53) google.com.au/search 59 (52)
No change here either. The Wikipedia link continues to embarass me.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
Aside from a surprising number of personal messages from friends and one lone piece of "visit my site pleaaase" spam...
1. After reading my explanation of SOLARIS, an anonymous visitor writes:
Good job - We just watched it. I'm too much of a literalist for movies like this and in some kind of sick way, that means I'm like Gordon. I have to understand it! Alas, I don't "get it." Thanks for the blog though!
Glad to help.
2. Coming from my long-neglected List of 100 good films, an Indian correspondant asks...
hi this is karthi from india, ur top rating is nice and helpfull fr me. i'm an asst.director in indian feautre films i want more lists of love and romance film list.if u don't mind mail me that requesy filmlist
Building a list of ten recent romantic films I enjoyed was a bit of an exercise (hey, I'm a guy), but I finally manager to scrape together the following:
HITCH (USA, 2005)
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (UK, 2005)
BRIDE AND PREJUDICE (UK/India, 2004)
LES AIMANTS (LOVE AND MAGNETS, Canada, 2004)
LOVE ACTUALLY (UK, 2003)
DOWN WITH LOVE (USA, 2003)
BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (UK, 2001)
LE FABULEUX DESTIN D'AMELIE POULAIN (AMELIE, France, 2001)
MOULIN ROUGE (USA, 2001)
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (UK, 1998)
Notice the heavy proportion of non-USA films? Hmmm...
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 explained 22 >christian sauve 15 >solaris explanation 14 >stomach shrinkage 14 >advance screenings 13 >free movie screenings 13 >free movie tickets 11 >movie sneak previews 10 >solaris movie explanation 9 >how to get free movie tickets 7
The list is, er, depressingly familiar. Lose weight, see free movies and have SOLARIS explained to you. Just another month on christian-sauve.com!
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain... obsessed by web statistics.