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50% drop in direct traffic

Discussion in 'Google Analytics' started by Brian McGann, Nov 16, 2018.

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    Hello, I recently saw a drop of 50% in visits from direct traffic in one month on the site I manage. Direct traffic went from 82,000 in June to 40,000 in July, and since then has remained at approximately 40,000. I did not see any sources increase so it wasn't a matter of traffic going from one source to another.

    In looking at the details, the direct traffic to the home page did not drop by a significant amount in this time period. It was traffic to the internal pages that showed a significant drop. I have some internal pages which saw a 95% drop in user sessions from direct traffic. Of course, this seems illogical to me because I wouldn't expect direct traffic to really hit internal pages.

    One other thing to point out--we do have a significant issue with invalid traffic, which is at about 20% according to our Moat reports. Can I assume the direct traffic decline is related to invalid traffic?


    Thank you.
     
    Brian McGann, Nov 16, 2018 IP
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    mmerlinn Prominent Member

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    And you expect us to tell you what is wrong when we cannot examine the patient?
     
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    AlphaNine_Vini Active Member

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    You need to analyse the data of the IP addresses. Did you took any traffic service from a third party. It looks like bots visiting your website and spamming on the website. Those spammer even create fake email address and use multiple ip addresses to create accounts.
     
    AlphaNine_Vini, Dec 4, 2018 IP
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    What I would be looking at is did your conversion rate drop or go up now that that traffic is gone. Look at bounce rate did it improve a good amount as well. If so then its possible that was just filler traffic that either someone bought and forgot about or someone was sending traffic your way.
     
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