[Hidden-tech] Trying to figure out traffic spike

[B. Kimo Lee]

Hi Gabe,

I'm curious what four pages you are referring to?
Hopefully, they are clean, legit pages and not some kind of malware pages referred to by a botnet. Then again, if you have unique content on those pages and the topic is really HOT, sounds great!
I think your instinct to be a bit unnerved by it is a good one to follow up on. Direct Traffic is a combination of all traffic whose source Google doesn't understand, such as Twitter apps, RSS links, etc., as well as legit direct traffic.
I'd be curious to see what  you find out. Good luck.

Best,
Kimo

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On Feb 7, 2012, at 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,
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