Users visit your site directly??

Hi, I met some strange problems.

I read the analytics report, and find some users visit my sites directly, I don't know why. Because it is just a common blogger. I don't know how can they directyly visit my site and look different pages directly.

 

Person 1: Hey wana know a cool site?
Person 2: Sure
Person 1: http://www.<lame-site>.com
Person 2: *Types*

Thats one way.. theres millions of ways it can happen lol

 

But the users is visit my different pages directly!!

 

Now that is kinda weird. Normally you'd think they'd visit those pages from search engines.

 

If he visited before, he can easily use dropdown menu of the address bar and it is considered a direct visit.
And it will automatically show up when you type the first 2 letters, unless you turn the setting off on the browser.

 

someone could have also bookmarked the page diectly

 

^^ That is true.

 

I check the reports, most of them is the first time visit my sites.

 

Bookmarks, history, disabling referer in browser, link given by friend or via email/IM... ran out of ideas but there are probably plenty more possible reasons.

 

if you are using google analytics, statcounter or any other javascript tracker...then it could be that javascript is disabled.

A lot of companies are now disabling javascript at the gateway level...

for example....I live in New York City and I attended Monroe College for undergrad and now Baruch College and both universities disable javascript on all their computers

 

I think it could also be robots that are crawling your site. They don't have to start crawling your site from its home page. If you're the paranoyed type, maybe your cometitiors are viewing your site and trying to figure out ways to screw with it...

 

I get about 300 people a day directly entering.

It just a matter of if your site has been around long enough then a person here or there adds it to their favorites.

 

That's right, there is nothing uncommon. Just by typing, pasting url into browser... from bookmarks, instant messangers etc...

I just was wondering, if I open url in background (by clickin middle button) is it taken as directly visitor or reffered?

 

Yes - it does

 

The 4 main ways it happens is
1. They type in your domain
2. They have it saved as a bookmark
3. Thier browser doesn't send the referrer when it makes a request.
4. They clicked a link in an IM window or chatroom.

 

It counts as a referred hit

 

I get a decent percentage of my visitors directly. That's great: it means less dependence on the search engines. Sounds like your site is getting there as well.

 

You should create a 'bookmark this page' button on each page to maximise direct traffic.

I find that direct peeps stay around longer and will probably be more likely to clickity click ads.

 

Has your website been mentioned in any kind of print, or on radio or TV? That will lead to an increase in direct visits.

 

viewing a page directly just says that the reffered link where he comes from is either unknown , cloaked , redirected , or just a site name
therefor you can easily have a visitor that looks like a direct visitor but when he's for the first time on your site (IP) then i raise the question where is he comming from what crappy site is sending them ?