Web Site Report - July 2008

2008, Christian Sauve

Ready for another look at the dull 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, July 2008
  Total Visitors     8,121
  Total Pageviews    21,358  
    (Corrected total  13,897)
  Total Hits    24,727 
  Total Bytes Transferred   492.9MB
  Average Visitors Per Day   261.96
  Average Pageviews Per Day   688.96
    (Corrected average      448)
  Average Hits Per Day   797.64

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. Numbers are similar to last month, but a bit lower on the daily average. Hey, it's summer.

Ever-gloomier Google Analytics puts the monthly result at 775 visits and 1253 page views, both lower numbers than last month. Damn your more accurate algorithms, Google!

 

According to Urchin, our top ten most popular pages are 

/index.html                         886
/texts/free-movie-tickets.htm       479
/texts/solaris-explanation.htm      194
/reviews.html                       170
/about.html                         167
/writings.html                      138
/links.html                         134
/reviews/index.html                 133
/search.html                        128
/texts/worldcon-2004-noreascon4.htm 125

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

1. /texts/solaris-explanation.htm 129
2. /index.html 115
3. /reviews.html 81
4. /reviews/2006/index.htm 32
5. /reviews/index.htm 31
6. /reviews/2007/index.htm 29
7. /about.html 28
8. /writings.html 28
9. /francais/index.html 25
10. /reviews/1999/books99f.htm 22

...which is roughly consistent with last month's results, except for the weird showing of the yearly review indexes, which (upon investigation) looks to be a Google Analytics glitch.

 

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 7.0 287 345
2. Firefox 213 262
3 IE 6.0 152 178

 

2. Where do these people come from?

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

google.com/search     823 (830)
google.co.uk/search   129 (72)
www.google.ca/search  112 (132)
live.com/results.aspx 107 (182)
google.com/books       43 (49)

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

  Source This Month Last Month
1. google / organic 531 621
2. yahoo / organic 34 27
3. aol.com / organic 14 12
4. en.wikipedia.org / referral 13 (new)
5. live / organic 9 6

(Lingo key: "Organic" is Google's way of saying that no one has paid for links 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.

 

3. Ohh! Visitor comments!

It was quiet, quiet month for the christian-sauve.com mailbox.

Even spam declined slightly this month, though that takes us to a mere one-message-per-day flood.

Otherwise, the highlight of the month was a hilariously inappropriate copy-and-paste-an-Amazon-page piece of spam for a vanity-press book. While the author self-identifies as a Christian, I doubt they ever made it to the "Thou shall not spam" commandment.

 

4. Search Queries Oddities

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

  Keywords Visits
1 solaris explained 16
2 solaris ending 12
3 christian sauve 11
4 solaris explanation 10
5 glenn kleier 9
6 solaris movie plot 8
7 fighter pilot red flag cgi 7
8 sauve 6
9 solaris movie synopsis 6
10 "one way ticket to the future" 5

SOLARIS, still confusing people after all these years...

 

Other amusing search keywords:

 

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