[Hidden-tech] Trying to figure out traffic spike

[gabe ripley]

hey folks,

We have had a recent traffic spike which was not unexpected as I made  
a few somewhat significant changes two months ago as our traffic had  
dropped over the years. We had on occasion done a million unique  
visitors a month, but over the last 3-4 years our traffic had dropped  
to about 150,000 uniques. the last week had seen our daily count rise  
to about 15,000 (from 5k) and then last weekend we have broke 60,000  
each day. yesterday was 82k uniques. What is curious is google  
analytics says these new visitors are coming "directly" in, and they  
are being delivered exclusively to 4 pages. Its a tad unnerving not  
knowing where the visitors are coming from and the fact they go to  
four pages exclusively (Id much rather a more event distribution),  
they must be coming from a search engine I imagine? Anyone have any  
similar experiences, or experience zeroing in on exactly where traffic  
is coming in from? Its a great problem to have, to not understand  
where zillions of people are coming from, but I want to understand so  
I don't lose it again! It might be as easy as website history (over 10  
years) and the tweaks I made, but its the not knowing the source is  
killing me!!

thanks in advance,
gabe

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