Happy but confused. | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

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?

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.

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?

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.

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….

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

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

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!