Web Site Report

August 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, August 2007
  Total Visitors: 8,264  
  Total Pageviews: 17,411  
    (Corrected Total: 10,357)
  Total Hits: 20,509  
  Total Bytes Transferred: 375.2MB  
  Average Visitors Per Day: 266.58  
  Average Pageviews Per Day: 561.64  
    (Corrected Average: 334.1)
  Average Hits Per Day: 661.58

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 holidays. It was a dull month for everyone.

Our top ten most popular pages are:

/index.html                         457
/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm       369
/reviews.html                       168
/texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 130
/about.html                         119
/reviews/1996/books96b.htm          117
/contactt.html                      103
/links.html                          99
/search.html                         94
/reviews/2005/reviews-2005-09september.html 93

Old reviews are popping up again. (There's no accounting for taste.)

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  4425 (6063)
Explorer|6  1127 (1380)
msnbot|1     656 (617)
Explorer|7   570 (426)
Opera|9      192 (322)

Little change here. IE7 nibbles at the total some more.

 

2. Where do these people come from?

Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were

google.com/search           748 (585)
www.google.ca/search        187 (169)
google.co.uk/search          68 (62)
wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 61 (80)
yahoo.com/search             34 (new)

Little change here either. Summer equals less people on the web.

No new interesting links seen this month.

 

3. Ohh! Visitor comments!

No spam in the mailbox. But not much else either.

I told you it was a quiet month.

 

4. Search Queries Oddities

Here are our top-ten queries:

>advance screenings           18
>movie sneak previews         12
>free movie premiere tickets  10
>advance movie screenings     10
>francoise yip nude            9
>solaris explanation           8
>free advance movie screenings 8
>free movie tickets            8
>solaris explained             8
>christian sauve               8

No surprises here. Free movie tickets make the world go round. Now imagine free tickets for SOLARIS, starring a nude Françoise Yip!

 

If you're wondering which questions were fascinating the world in August 2008, have a look at this:

>what are the specific aspect of the character in 
   the movie meet the fockers that  
>what exercise is best for losing weight around the midriff  
>what places does christian bale like to frequent  
>what should you expect if you are being charged 
   for altering a prescription  
>what success means to me_word limit 120-150 word_  
>where do people get free movie tickets  
>where to find sneak previews for movies  
>where was the movie matinee with john goodman filmed  
>who in the world is christian sauve  
>who is the jellyman fforde  
>who were the actors who played in the movie made in kanata  
>who is the stupidest titan from age of mythology  
>why is ending of the movie dances with wolves the 
   reverse of the book

 

Elsewhere in the web logs, I see the following gem:

>is sauve as good as the name brands

Accept no substitutes!

 

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