[Hidden-tech] Trying to figure out traffic spike

[Charles Uchu Strader]

Gabe,

The best way to do this would be to run analysis on your web server logs 
directly.  That should help you drill down to understand the traffic patterns 
more thoroughly.

A search engine link should come to you with information about the referrer.  If 
there is no referrer (aka "directly in"), then it's something like a bookmark, 
an link sent via email, or something like that.

Also, have you definitely ruled out bot traffic versus truly human traffic?  
There are new bots all the time that seem to have fun endlessly crawling, but 
nothing in return.

Charles Uchu Strader
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On 2/7/12 8:39 AM, gabe ripley wrote:
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> 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!!
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> thanks in advance,
> gabe
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