Web Site Report
October 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, October 2007
Total Visitors: 7,049
Total Pageviews: 17,684
(Corrected Total: 10,110)
Total Hits: 21,934
Total Bytes Transferred: 428.1MB
Average Visitors Per Day: 227.38
Average Pageviews Per Day: 570.45
(Corrected Average: 326)
Average Hits Per Day: 707.54
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 a bit higher than last month, which is nice for a change.
Our top ten most popular pages are:
/index.html 475 /texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 266 /reviews.html 157 /francais/index.html 128 /links.html 120 /about.html 103 /contactt.html 100 /search.html 95 /reviews/1996/books96b.htm 93 /texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 87
Nothing unexpected here.
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 3534 (3241) Explorer|6 1152 (907) Explorer|7 614 (569) msnbot|1 464 (675) msnbot media|1 83 (new)
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 836 (670) www.google.ca/search 241 (210) google.co.uk/search 78 (78) yahoo.com/search 60 (new) wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Light 46 (51)
Looks like google likes me again.
There were a number of new mentions of my name on Google this month, most of them due to me attending two conventions, and co-winning an Aurora Awards for the Fractale Framboise blog. Few of those mentions, however, were accompanied by links back to this web site, which is as it should be.
3. Ohh! Visitor comments!
A few letters in the mailbox this month, some more amusing that others.
1. My saga regarding Frank Camper's Merc continues to attract attention:
Merc: The Professional, Frank Camper can you help me to get me in contact wit Frank Camper
To quote my email answer:
Unfortunately, I don't have any contact with Frank Camper. Once every two years or so, pseudonymous people write me to tell me that Frank Camper is alive and well and living in Alabama, but that's the extent of my knowledge of his current whereabouts. Sorry!
4. Search Queries Oddities
Here are our top-ten queries:
>being canadian 12 >christian sauve 10 >free movie tickets 10 >roderick thorpe 10 >solaris ending 10 >movie sneak previews 9 >movie sneak preview 8 >sneak preview movie tickets 8 >solaris explained 8 >stomach shrinkage 6
No surprises here.
>2003 action packed heist movie failure
>2003 canadian action packed heist movie failure
>canada action packed heist movie that was a failure in 2003
>canadas 2003 action packed heist movie
>canadas 2003 blockbuster movie failure
>canadas blockbuster film spectacular failure in 2003.
what was the name of this
>canadian 2003 blockbuster film failure
>canadian action movies released in 2003
>canadian action-packed heist movie 2003 box office dud
>canadian blockbuster action packed heist movie of 2003
>canadian made movies in 2003
Oh, I wonder if this was a trivia question somewhere. (The answer, by the way, from memory: FOOLPROOF. And it was an enjoyable movie.)
>erotic honor harrington books reviews >eye-popping violence sex scenes and nudity but what about what we think nowadays >how to make helicopter shot in bowling spin more effectively
Some of those words don't go together.
>irobot is a depressing movie film -roomba
My first reading of this query was something like "I Robot is a depressing film, says Roomba".
>krug steve dont make me think cheap ebook
Yeah, Steve Krug! Don't make me think about cheap ebooks!
Until next time, my name is Christian Sauvé and I remain... obsessed by web statistics.