Web Site Report - November 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, November 2007
  Total Visitors      6,394  
  Total Pageviews    15,596  
    (Corrected total  9,153)
  Total Hits         19,451  
  Total Bytes Transferred   408.4MB  
  Average Visitors Per Day  213.13  
  Average Pageviews Per Day 519.86  
    (Corrected average      305)
  Average Hits Per Day      648.36

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 slightly lower than last month.

Our top ten most popular pages are:

/index.html                   409
/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm 261
/reviews.html                 138
/contactt.html                116
/about.html                   115
/reviews/1996/books96b.htm     88
/links.html                    84
/writings.html                 84
/francais/index.html           81
/reviews/index.html            81

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  3126 (3524)
Explorer|6  1037 (1152)
Explorer|7   662 (614)
msnbot|1     325 (464)
Gigabot|3    129 (new)

Little change here.

 

2. Where do these people come from?

Our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were

google.com/search    848 (836)
www.google.ca/search 314 (241)
google.co.uk/search   76 (78)
yahoo.com/search      48 (60)
google.com.au/search  39 (new)

The one big new link of the month was a mention of my review of John Clute's The Darkening Garden on Clute's own blog. It's a mention without comment, but I could feel Clute's disapproval at my clumsy attempt at using the English language to talk about his work.

 

3. Ohh! Visitor comments!

After weeding out personal messages by friends and known acquaintances, one moment of Zen was left in the mailbox this month:

 

An anonymous correspondent asks, without context:

can i have one for my mom.

I leave you to ponder this.

 

4. Search Queries Oddities

Here are our top-ten queries this month:

>being canadian              9
>solaris explained           9
>christian sauve             8
>movie sneak preview         7
>free movie premiere tickets 6
>amazon isbn                 6
>glenn kleier                5
>frank camper                5
>roderick thorpe             5
>solaris ending              5

No surprises here.

>how busy is new york fries in aberdeen mall 
>how does the scary movie 4 movie trailer attempt to sell the film to
>how many movies has monique imes bee in  
>how to get free movie passes montreal 
>how to get free movie tickets from the news paper 
>how to get free tickets 
>how to get home delavary cinema ticket 
>how to get in movie theaters without tickets 
>how to get invited to free movie screenings 
>how to get passes to sneak preview movies 
>how to get sneak previews tickets 
>how to get tickets for advance screenings 
>how to reclaim new york sales tax for canadian tourist

These are the questions that fascinated the web this month. 

 

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