I've been setting up my own analytics program and was getting crazy numbers, say around 800 direct people in 8 hours on one site. I assumed that most of these were various spiders, but after I integrated a spider checking system that only caught around 100 visitors in 35k. My normal traffic, at least according to google analytics is about 350 people a day (including everything) so 800 direct in 8 hours is rather impossible. Any idea who all this other traffic is? Perhaps the traffic is mostly spam bots.
Hi, I have some idea in traffic, The traffic can augmented by forum postings, link exchange, Link Directories, yahoo answers, article submission, inbound links. Traffic is very essential to increase the position of the website or web page. To increase traffic for a particular keyword we are using the inbound links. Its not get spam, you need to implement with rules and regulations.
Dude try reading the post.. My direct traffic numbers are off. I calculate direct traffic by this formulae: Overall traffic - PPC - Organic - Referrals - Spiders = Direct Traffic However my direct traffic numbers are say 500% more then they ought to be. Any ideas? I know there are spam bots trolling my sites so that should account for some of it. Any other ideas where this traffic is coming from?
some crawlers don't disclose who they are, so there's nor referral and no agent signature. Usually they don't pick up your cookies or access jscript links. I can always see them in my logs as they create many sessions with only one (but a different one each time) pageview per session.
Hi I am new to this board. I too am having such a problem. I have been using google analytics to get stats for www.siteone.com for over a year now. Visitors to this site usually follow links to www.sitetwo.com for additional services. Until recently there was no Google Analytics tracking for www.sitetwo.com, but I have just started in the past week. I notice about 55% of traffic are referrals from siteone and 42% is DIRECT! 2.5% is via keywords/search engines. Why is there so much direct traffic to sitetwo? siteone has been online for 11 years and only 1.65% of its traffic is direct and 96% from search engines. What puzzles me is all the direct traffic to sitetwo. I have checked the tracking codes in the html etc and it looks ok. Any ideas of how to find the problem? If it were bots or whatever why are they all going to sitetwo but not so much to siteone. I even set up a test sitethree and had some of siteone's links point to sitethree and for now very little direct traffic - all referrals. Any ideas? Thanks
I'm not sure about google analytics, you might want to email them directly to see if they can help you fix the problem. Of course I've sent them a few bug reports they've failed to fix, which is a main reason I've gone ahead and created my own.
It's my belief that with the "proper" insights, that 30-50% of all traffic may be reduced by eliminating harvesters and spammers that are not capable of providing any benefit to your website (s). Please note the term harvesters is a very broad term. There are many smaller search engines that will not prove beneficial to most sites in any form. Same appllies to bots that are run under the premsise of 3rd party customers.
You might want to check what your stats program considers a "visit". All analyzers count visits by page-hits-per/time. For example, if your analyzer counts a visitors page-hits within 5 minutes as the same visit, a user that spends 6 minutes on a page, and then goes to another one, will get counted as two separate visits. How do your stats compare with Google Analytics as far as page hits, not visits?
I'm not paying much attention to page hits to tell you the truth. The visitor traffic figures are very similar however except for the direct traffic levels. A visit is when somebody comes onto the site, and when the referring site is not the same site. For the "pages views" I'll stick with google analytics since they have a pretty decent platform for that. My main problem with them is failure to track yahoo correctly organic/ppc correctly and failure to show me where my visitors are coming from. "Google Organic" is fine, but doesn't tell me whether thats from google.co.uk, google.ae or google.com, all of which have very different search results.