Direct Traffic To The Website

Greetings
3 days ago my website traffic has fallen down as most of the traffic comes from direct and googleapi.com. It was 13k to 15k per day but suddenly it has fallen down.
Currently, the website has indexing issues too as it shifted to the different server and domain changed too from www to non-www.
But the main issue that from where the direct traffic has come (Because it is 13 to 15k per day)? When I checked in GA it shows the traffic is come from direct and there is no other source mentioned for this.
I am also doing postings on Facebook and Twitter by shortening the URL with cuttly. But it drives only 300 and 500 users to the website on per day bases. Rest 2k or 3k comes from Youtube Community.
Can anyone have the idea that direct traffic is from Youtube also or from Twitter and Facebook as I am using short URLs of a third party?
Or is there any way to identify from that direct traffic is come from?
Kindly respond.

 

to see your painting again, that seems strange to me too.

 

Sumit,
Direct traffic can be from bookmarks.
I don't know what CGI script you are using to check stats, but most will report short URL traffic as something from a referral site, not as direct traffic.

 

Thank you, JEET
Yeah, Direct traffic can be from bookmarks or sometimes the short URL like cuttly and bitly also considered as direct. But the amount of direct traffic is high so it is not possible it is from bookmarks. I am trying to figuring it out from where that traffic is actually coming to my website.

 

It could be a bot also. Check IP and useragent.

 

Did you maybe activate Firewall for your domain ? Maybe Firewall change to you have more direct traffic.

 

Some how I agree with your points

 

Did that happen after some changes you made with your web site?
How many analytic tools you have?
Maybe your traffic is not being calculated properly because of issue with analytic tool?

 

Just use Google Analytics and Google Search Console

 

This does not seem so shocking to me. Google drops pages from index all the time because of errors when attempting to crawl at the time. I have noticed that it takes forever to solve an error in Search Console after problem being identified even though it should not have even had happened. If Google cuts pages of your website from their index...then there would also be a subsequent cut in your overall web traffic. Google's index fluctuates all the time. Pages drops and get reindexed later on. Your web traffic will fluctuate according to the amount of actively indexed pages that Google accounts for. 5O indexed pages today, is no guarantee 50 indexed pages will remain in index as Google constantly modifies its own proprietary ranking algorithm.

 

I assume that that may be the main reason