Web Site Report - March 2008

2008, 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, March 2008
  Total Visitors     8,009
  Total Pageviews   20,819
    (Corrected total  12,548)
  Total Hits    24,394
  Total Bytes Transferred   431.6MB
  Average Visitors Per Day  258.35
  Average Pageviews Per Day 671.58
    (Corrected average      404)
  Average Hits Per Day      786.9

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 lower, but per-average roughly the same as last month given the three missing days in February.

As usual, Google Analytics more nuanced data capture puts the monthly result at 1,479 visits and 2,092 page views, with a spike on March 22nd following yet another SOLARIS re-run on a major channel.

 

Our top ten most popular pages according to Urchin are:

/index.html                    711
/texts/solaris-explanation.htm 478
/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm  260
/about.html                    191
/reviews.html                  191
/contactt.html                 151
/links.html                    137
/writings.html                 132
/search.html                   119
/reviews/index.html            112

No changes here. Meanwhile, Google Analytics says

1. /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 413
2. /index.html 183
3. /reviews.html 151
4. /reviews/index.html 50
5. /about.html 48
6. /francais/index.html 45
7. /search.html 43
8. /writings.html 40
9. /reviews/movies/1980s.htm 33
10. /reviews/1999/books99f.htm 32

which (aside from the pole-position showing of solaris-explanation) is roughly consistent with last month's results.

 

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), as provided by Google Analytics:

  Browser This Month Last Month
1 IE 7.0 518 (344)
2. Firefox 391 (271)
3 IE 6.0 387 (256)

 

2. Where do these people come from?

According to Urchin, our top five sources of referrals (in visitors) were

google.com/search    1215 (921)
www.google.ca/search  168 (215)
google.co.uk/search    89 (100)
live.com/results.aspx  74  (73)
google.com/books       53  (63)

As you may expect by now, Google Analytics has a slightly different view of the situation:

  Source This Month Last Month
1. google / organic 1064 696
2. yahoo / organic 31 25
3. aol / organic 11 16
4. search / organic 11 (new)
5. books.google.com / referral 8 10

(Lingo key: "Organic" is Google's way of saying that no one has paid for ads leading back to christian-sauve.com on those search engines. "Referral" is a direct link to this site.)

There were no other new links this month.

 

3. Ohh! Visitor comments!

There was quite a bit of spam in the mailbox this month, including some political stuff in hebrew, but mostly foreign-exchange scams.

The lone exception was a correction to my "Solaris Explained" page, which I have added at the end of the document.

 

4. Search Queries Oddities

According to Google Analytics, here are the month's most popular search keywords:

  Keywords Visits
1 solaris ending 69
2 solaris movie plot 56
3 solaris explanation 34
4 solaris explained 32
5 solaris movie explanation 17
6 solaris movie synopsis 16
7 solaris movie explained 15
8 solaris movie ending 13
9 christian sauvé 11
10 glenn kleier 9

SOLARIS, popular much?

 

Other amusing search keywords:

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