Yakezie.com - Topic: Happy but confused.

Andi B. on Happy but confused.

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:30:00 +0000

I had that happen three times in one week and it turned out to be a referral from a gay cruise website. Still don't know what the connection was to frugality but...views is views!

MoneyInfant on Happy but confused.

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:17:33 +0000

HA! Only if it happens again and again. Nice thought though.

seedebtrun on Happy but confused.

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:34:50 +0000

Hey.. Maybe its something you can show to the advertisers... :)

This That And The MBA on Happy but confused.

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:25:13 +0000

tough problem to have. Someday...just someday I will get there...

Way to go heres to hoping you have many more and it was not a fluke.

maria@moneyprinciple on Happy but confused.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:51:58 +0000

I have had those but the explanation was simple: once it was because a frined and Jacon from ERE mentioned two different posts on the same evening (on different places). This is still known as 'the day I had over 500 visitors'. Hope to repeat it soon (and stabilise the level ).

Maria

jaicatalano on Happy but confused.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:10:27 +0000

I have experienced spikes from time to time. Shed some light

AverageJoe on Happy but confused.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:59:47 +0000

Now that you're a big star, you have to be okay with the fame overwhelming your ability to track them. ;-)

Of course, I'm joking. It's a weird but AWESOME problem to have....

Aloysa on Happy but confused.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:09:26 +0000

MoneyInfant said:

Aloysa it was shorter avg time on site and less than pageviews than my usual traffic, but it wasn't horrible. The bounce rate was something like 77% which isn't even too bad if it was social media traffic. I'm going to stick with my Twitter hypothesis unless someone has some other possibilities.

Actually it makes sense.

MoneyInfant on Happy but confused.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:04:37 +0000

Aloysa it was shorter avg time on site and less than pageviews than my usual traffic, but it wasn't horrible. The bounce rate was something like 77% which isn't even too bad if it was social media traffic. I'm going to stick with my Twitter hypothesis unless someone has some other possibilities.

MoneyInfant on Happy but confused.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:48:30 +0000

It's definitely not bots as the avg time per visit is almost 2 minutes and avg pages is more than 1. Maybe the email suggestion that Jon made, although that doesn't explain why the concurrent jump in mobile traffic.

Just doing some research and I found this snippet:

"You see mobile applications don't send a referrer and it will look like all of a sudden you got very high converting Direct traffic." This apparently also includes some referrals from social sites because of the link shortening as well as clicks from Adobe Air applications.

If I had to make a guess I would say the traffic came from Twitter as I am fairly active on there, it uses shortened links, there are a lot of mobile users and applications used to access Twitter via mobile are powered by Adobe Air. Looking at my Twitter shows 2 tweets from @GoBankingRates that may have caused a spike like that.

Aloysa on Happy but confused.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:46:30 +0000

I determine quality by looking at time they spend on my site, and page views. What what the average time spent on your site from those direct visits?

Van Beek on Happy but confused.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:58:26 +0000

Can you see what the average time on site and pages/visit are for these 392 mobile visits and 364 direct visits? If they are more than just 0 and 1, it is more than robotic.

It can also come from people who have seen your URL somewhere and copy and paste it in their browser. But that is also not very likely.

Did you change anything in your site the day before except for posting something?

Hopefully you get just such a traffic spike from your IRA Roth guest post on my Stock Trend Investing site that was published today.

jonrhodesuk on Happy but confused.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:36:57 +0000

This has happened to me in the past and perplexed me for quite a while. I eventually reasoned that it is probably non-human visitors - spam bots etc. They will show as direct visits. The only other possibility I can think of for loads of direct visits is if someone has emailed your url to a big list of people.

MoneyIsTheRoot on Happy but confused.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:07:47 +0000

This happened to me one time, a couple months ago, I had over 300 direct visits in one day...which has never happened before, or since.

To my knowledge, this would only include the people that type in your URL...which is why it confused me then, and still does now.

MoneyInfant on Happy but confused.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:04:44 +0000

First of all, thanks to all of you who have commented on my last thread here (http://yakezie.com/forums/blog.....ng-stoked/). It's a very exciting time to see a traffic spike like that so image my elation when I looked at Sunday's traffic to see a huge 563 visitors for the day! That's the happy part.

Now for the confusion...I have no idea where those visitors came from. Analytics shows 364 visits as direct visits, meaning the visitors typed the URL directly into the browser right? I think not so because most of those hit http://www.moneyinfant.com/aft.....your-debt/ as the landing page and I seriously doubt that many people were typing such a long URL into their browsers. I also show a huge spike (392) of visitors on mobile devices. Is it just that Analytics doesn't handle referrals from mobile devices well? I have no trackbacks to tell me where the traffic came from either, but obviously somewhere that post was mentioned. I'm so confused

Are there Analytics gurus out there who might be able to shed more light on my dilemma?