Web Site Report - April 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, April 2008
  Total Visitors     10,524
  Total Pageviews   23,947
    (Corrected total  13,629)
  Total Hits    28,026
  Total Bytes Transferred   499.9MB
  Average Visitors Per Day  350.8
  Average Pageviews Per Day 798.23
    (Corrected average      454)
  Average Hits Per Day

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 higher, which mystifies me.

Ever-gloomier Google Analytics puts the monthly result at 1,023 visits and 1,554 page views. Damn your more accurate algorithms, Google!

 

According to Urchin, our top ten most popular pages are 

/index.html                         798
/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm       340
/reviews.html                       196
/about.html                         165
/texts/solaris-explanation.htm      155
/writings.html                      137
/links.html                         136
/search.html                        131
/texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 120
/reviews/1996/books96b.htm          107

No changes here. Meanwhile, Google Analytics says...

1. /index.html 136
2. /reviews.html 135
3. /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 100
4. /writings.html 55
5. /francais/index.html 51
6. /reviews/index.html 51
7. /reviews/movies/2002.htm 37
8. /search.html 34
9. /reviews/movies/1980s.htm 33
10. /reviews/movies/2000.htm 28

...which 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), as provided by the clever gerbils at Google Analytics:

  Browser This Month Last Month
1 IE 7.0 390 (518)
2. Firefox 297 (391)
3 IE 6.0 205 (387)

 

2. Where do these people come from?

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

google.com/search   1017 (1215)
www.google.ca/search 176 (168)
google.co.uk/search  112 (89)
live.com/results.aspx 71 (74)
google.com/books      62 (53)

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

  Source This Month Last Month
1. google / organic 739 1064
2. yahoo / organic 21 31
3. aol / organic 17 11
4. msn / organic 10 (new)
5. live / referral 6 (new)

(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 supposed to be a direct link to this site.)

There were no other new links this month. Looking at the usual egoogling search, however, I see that other Christian Sauves are gaining on me in the top ten search results. Mixed feelings here: while I'm concerned that the Christian Sauve brand is getting diluted, some chaff can be useful in order to provide a bit of plausible deniability and confuse any would-be stalkers. (Real stalkers, on the other hand, already know that this is the right site to bookmark.)

 

3. Ohh! Visitor comments!

There was a lot of spam in the mailbox last month. I mean, really a lot of spam.

The lone exception was a maddeningly anonymous question:

Looking for name of old (mid '80s) about survival training for AF aircrew with a female (first I think) pilot. One instructor goes too far.

Frankly, a ten-minutes search reveals nothing conclusive. Never minding G.I.JANE (1997), my best guess is 1989's SURVIVAL QUEST about a civilian survival training group being attacked by paramilitary psychos looking for kicks, but that's not very convincing. 1985's KILLZONE has a snapping Vietnam veteran, but doesn't seem to feature a female pilot.

IMDB does have a "survial-training" plot keyword, but it's so far populated by a handful of post-2000 titles.

 

4. Search Queries Oddities

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

  Keywords Visits
1 solaris explained 19
2 glenn kleier 10
3 solaris ending 10
4 solaris explanation 8
5 solaris movie explanation 8
6 christian sauve 6
7 christian sauvé 5
8 "plan of attack" txt -woodward dale brown 3
9 sauve 3
10 solaris ending explanation 3

SOLARIS, confusing much?

 

Other amusing search keywords:

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