Page views and direct visits shooting up, duration and pages per visit plummeting...

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by greengrass_nhm, Jun 8, 2012.

  1. #1
    We've recently moved a site onto a new platform. In one month we've seen a four-fold growth in direct traffic with some odd patterns.
    • 'Direct' requests for pages with complex urls
    • receiving hundreds of views last 00:00 each day.
    • Bounce rate is near 100%.

    Is this spider traffic? If so why does Google count it?
    Can someone help me understand what is going on?

    I'm learning about analysing web traffic and help is appreciated.

    KR

    GG
     
    greengrass_nhm, Jun 8, 2012 IP
  2. cherry9

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    Sounds like some type of bot activity. Could be a scraper site.
     
    cherry9, Jun 15, 2012 IP