Web Site Report
September 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, September 2007
Total Visitors 6,553
Total Pageviews 15,452
(Corrected Total: 8,023)
Total Hits 18,588
Total Bytes Transferred 346.0MB
Average Visitors Per Day 218.43
Average Pageviews Per Day 515.06
(Corrected Average: 267.4)
Average Hits Per Day 619.6
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, oh, Google.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 451 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 241 /reviews.html 139 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 100 /about.html 93 /francais/index.html 93 /reviews/1996/books96b.htm 92 /links.html 90 /contactt.html 85 /search.html 79
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 3241 (4425) Explorer|6 907 (1127) msnbot|1 675 (656) Explorer|7 569 (570) Opera|9 119 (192)
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 670 (748) www.google.ca/search 210 (187) google.co.uk/search 78 (68) wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 51 (61) google.com.au/search 33 (new)
Little change here either. Have I offended the Google Guys?
No new interesting links seen this month.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
A few letters in the mailbox this month, some more amusing that others.
1. My travel reports attracted modest notice. First, Mary praised my recent Chicago 2007 report:
Enjoy tremedously the article written and pictures of Chicago. First time reading and will save this link.
Then an Ottawa-area acquaintance wrote in to ask for a small grammatical correction, and added:
I found your LA Con report, and having read it, I must say, very well done. I and my not-then-yet wife were there, had a blast, and your piece well captured many of the essences of the con.
Thanks to both of you!
2. In the "more amusing than others" category, here's this month's main exhibit, presented in full:
can you pls have the summary of rockets red glare
No caps, no apostrophes, no return address: My guess is a high school student looking for easy plagiarism. Not that it changes my answer: No.
4. Search Queries Oddities
Here are our top-ten queries:
>being canadian 20 >christian sauve 15 >solaris explained 10 >movie sneak previews 10 >roderick thorpe 8 >amazon isbn 8 >advance screenings 7 >sauve.com 7 >frank camper 6 >sneak preview movie tickets 5
No surprises here. Free movie tickets? An evergreen subject of fascination.
If you're wondering which questions were fascinating the world in September 2008, have a look at this:
>what happens if you get cut sneaking in movies >what is ebola christian explanation >what is the name of the wreck that would explode from rusticles >what is the protagonist in the novel the hot zone >why godzila is my favorite movie essay >how do you greet an extraterrestrial >how many days will blurriness last after lasek
Faithful readers of these monthly installments know that I'm unexplainably amused by the habit of some fundamentalists to prefix every search query by "christian" in the hope of warding off anti-christian elements of this world or something. Here's this month's batch of wackiness:
>christan dust nude pics >christian analyzing cartoon with hidden sex scene >christian book review of encyclopedia brown series >christian book the ultimate goal la verne >christian c. sandersons museum >christian cowboy jokes one liners >christian de sauve >christian documentary on moby dick >christian film reviews low-budget >christian full service web marketing pros >christian jokes 2007 >christian jokes on priorities >christian literature book free distribution >christian messages in monsters inc >christian metaphors in asimovs foundation >christian movie review_ jurassic park >christian movie reviews pulp fiction >christian opinions on the grinch >christian review of ken follett books >christian review of the hobbit >christian reviews of ray bradbury >christian rideau actor >christian sauve toxic spell dump >christian sauve.com >christian short stories better life style >christian story he took our place >christian stunt movie 4 >christian trilogies
(For the record, I once reviewed a book called the Toxic Spell Dump: I don't go around dumping toxic spells.)
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain... obsessed by web statistics.