Unexplained huge increase of constant visitors overnight?

Discussion in 'Google Analytics' started by ztr3ngth, Jan 2, 2012.

  1. #1
    Hiya,

    So I've got a technology blog (www.fastpcmods.com) that usually has very low UV's, about 15-20 a day.

    As of the 31st December I'm now getting 120+ daily UV's completely out of the blue. I've checked the traffic sources and all the new visits are Direct Traffic. (which to my knowledge is when people just type the url in to their browser) Surely this can't be right?

    So does anyone have a clue whats going on and whether these stats are real or not?

    Thanks
     
    ztr3ngth, Jan 2, 2012 IP
  2. cyman

    cyman Peon

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    It might be some kind of web crawler Google don't have listed. I have also heard from my friends that the google anayltics stats appears wired from time to time, but after some days the situation is normal again. Don't know, never happened to me before, but I have 30+ sites in analytics from 2007.
     
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    naveenjosh Active Member

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    I have also faced the same experience.. but yes, this is just only fluctuation of direct traffic... Same way my blogger blog received 1200+ traffic in a day which normally varrier in between 25-50 UV per day. I was shocked but just after 2 day every thing was normal... All the visitors are coming from direct visit and the geographical location was India.. I don't know the exact reason why this happened but still searching the reason..
     
    naveenjosh, Jan 2, 2012 IP