A measure of how much information is transmitted to and from a website. Traffic can be measured in many ways, such as how many people visit your site or how many times your site has been loaded (page views).
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My virtual server is created but it's not showing anything when I visit the site?
I have created a virtual sever as below for my site:
I've specified the folder and domain name:
And I created a master zone for the domain, and NS1 and NS2 has been set for the domain. everything ...
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Search Engine Indexing of a Database-Driven Website
Suppose I have a MySQL whose rows are dog breeds and whose columns are properties of the breeds (e.g. coat color). The purpose of the site is to allow users to query the database with questions like ...
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What are Mozilla compatible Agents in Google Analytics?
When I create a pivot table showing the number of visits for each type of browsers and regions, here is what I obtain:
As you can see, regions such as Northen America the number of visits ...
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Why is nat required when proxy is enough? [closed]
My machine is connected in a local lan. to connect to the internet the traffic goes through proxy server. my understanding of proxy server is that it sends the request on behalf of the original ...
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When I update the site, the traffic goes down
Has it happened to you, you update the site create a whole new pages with a new better design the traffic goes down immediately?
What could be the reason? Could it be because significant traffic is ...
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Why suddenly a lot of traffic on my blog? [closed]
My blog about technology valcun.com is about 40 days old and its PR is 0. I have daily visitors of between 25-50. Today, in google analytics, I noticed there were 350 visitors and all from Yahoo ...
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Obtaining visitor stats without traffic monitoring software
A client would like me to obtain visitor stats for his website, but does not have any traffic monitoring software installed.
So I'm wondering if it's even possible. The site is hosted on Heroku, so ...
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Display only visits referred from a Google Adwords campain
I want to only display visits to my site which were sent by my Google Adwords campain preferably in the Visitors overview page.
I've tried filtering with 'Advanced Segments' but when I select "Paid ...
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Google analytics reporting link as campaign instead of referral
There are several websites which link to my blog posts but are using links from feedburner (similar too http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AboutMyCode/~3/something ) so when someone visits these links it ...
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can we predict website traffic?
Can we predict website site traffic ?
For Example, I have the blog about web development, Means I need to find How many web developers in the world.How many of them working on my hot tag in my ...
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Prepare website for heavy traffic
A site of mine is going to be featured on a very popular tech blog. I already upgraded my server to handle the traffic. What other things should I be prepared for?
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Google analytics referral path
I run a website at the domain http://www.turkishbasics.com . Google Analytics is however showing the referral path of some of my traffic to be the domain itself (turkishbasics.com). How is this even ...
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Is it possible to dynamically display a page according to long tail google search?
Let assume someone types a longtail keyword, how do you dynamically generate a page with those keywords?
for example,
summer light pink florescent lights should generate a page with that keyword ...
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Will moving to Facebook/Disqus Commenting lighten the load on my server any?
I manage a site that gets about 50 million hits a month. It's a Wordpress site, load balanced over 6 servers, and has a varnish caching system setup.
Right now, 95 - 97% of the time, page views hit ...
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Why am I getting far less traffic than the Google Keywords traffic estimate suggests?
I identified a search term that is quotes as having millions of global searches per month on Google keywords tool. Local searches also account for a large chunk of that.
It was a long term goal to ...
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What is the reason for this site's sudden drop in traffic?
My one site's traffic has dropped in single day from around 4000 to 800 visitors. My other sites are getting normal visitor count.
I'm not using any blackhat techniques nor trading links or having a ...
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Republishing blog posts on a popular website
I started my blog about programming yesterday and in order to promote and increase traffic I submitted my rss to Codeproject which pulls my posts and publishes them at Codeproject.
While it increases ...
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How to host a single website on multiple servers?
I'm planning on releasing an iOS app that downloads video from my server. If hundreds of people on the launch day try to do this, then my website and the services that my server provides will clearly ...
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Google analytics - drop in traffic [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Google analytics - drop in traffic
Bit of a general question here. We are in the process of converting a number of our clients from older web sites to new ones.
The ...
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How does Google's Traffic Estimator calculate the “Estimated Avg. CPC”?
I use Google's Traffic Estimator to calculate the Estimated Average Cost Per Click.
I use the following filters:
Locations: Australia
Languages: English
and the following phrase air conditioner ...
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Sudden increase in traffic from Google search domains
I'm suddenly getting a 50% increase in traffic.
The cause of this, according to my google analytics, is referral traffic from sites such as:
google.co.uk
google.com.my
google.co.jp
google.com.sg
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Sites & Tools for comparing domains
What are some good tools or websites for comparing websites traffic, SEO, and other factors site owners might want to know about their competition.
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Serious Googlebot spike
One of the sites I maintain has seen googlebot use 23gb of bandwidth this month.
This seems utterly mental to me, what can I do about it?
I have reduced the crawl rate on webmaster tools, and ...
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Google Analytics underestimating pageviews and visitors [duplicate]
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Very few visitors on Analytics: incorrect setting?
Google Analytics reports are underestimating pageviews comparing to my server logs for around 40%. What could be the ...
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Google Analytics banner?
I use Google Analytics on my site...
But, I would like to display some traffic info to the users, like geo localization or just a hit-counter on the main page of my site.
Does Google offer ...
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how do i get the word out about my site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I increase the traffic to my site?
this has plagued me for a long time now. i just cant seem to grasp internet marketing very well.
i recently started a website ...
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Find out where the user has come from — previous page URL within the same site
Is it possible to use Google Analytics or a similar tool to track the users' inter-site click behaviour?
I'd like to know how many users clicked on certain links on a particular page which lead them ...
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What causes a website's alexa page-rank and traffic data to display highly regular sine wave patterns over a period of 30 days?
At first I wondered if it was due to the traffic difference between day and night, but that turned out not to be the case, since the period of rise and drop in traffic was about a week, not overnight.
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What is a lot of traffic?
I'd like to ask "What exactly is considered a lot of traffic for a website?"
What's the minimum someone could say - after stating their website receives a lot of traffic - as to not be laughed at?
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how to get new site indexed by alexa
When I search my site on alexa, it says "Alexa Traffic Rank: No Data". So I google the issue. I come across this page: ...
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Are there any tried and tested methods for rejuvenating an old message board?
I have a moderately successful message board with an excellent (but tiny) community associated with it.
One of my goals for the month is to try and increase the amount of users on the site and also ...
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What naughty ways are there of driving traffic?
OK, so this is purely for my intellectual curiosity and I'm not interested in illegal methods (no botnets please).
But say, for instance, that some organisation incentivised link sharing in a bid to ...
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Hoping to boost traffic to NFP site. SEO info? HELP! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
I'm doing work for a not-for-profit looking to boost traffic to the site. I need to learn a ...
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Google Webmaster Geographic target: Increases or Decreases Traffic?
My website is an english video streaming website that gets visitors from all over the world (about 70,000 per day). 35% of my traffic is from the US.
Now, in google Webmaster, if I were to set my ...
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Determining Source Quality with Google Analytics
What I am trying to do is set up a report (either on the new or the old analytics setup) that tells me the average "Pages per Visit" of all traffic "Sources". I can get that through Traffic ...
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What hosting solutions help with traffic spikes?
A web application is hypothetically featured on Digg or Reddit, and the server load immediately spikes up by a couple of orders of magnitude. What kind of hosting solution will allow the website to ...
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Is it possible to use Google Analytics to track file downloads?
It's always bothered me that Google Analytics (and similar embedded web traffic monitoring services) can only see a reflection of the traffic going to my server and can only see page visits since it ...
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How do I interpret direct traffic that lands on random pages?
Looking at yesterday, according to Google Analytics, I got six direct visitors to my site (their source/medium is direct/(none)). Only one ended up at the actual domain. The other five ended up at ...
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Where can I find comscore rank?
Recently one ad network rejected my registration stating that my site doesn't match their minimum monthly impressions, even though the site serves thrice the required page views. When I contacted them ...
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How does Google classify which country a website belongs to?
How does Google determine which country a website belongs to?
Is this technique also used by Alexa.com?
I don't think that the website's location is determined by its host's IP address or by its ...
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how is sites such as alexa.com monitor all web wide sites traffic in the internet ? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
alexa and compete
Hello,
i'm trying to understand idea of traffic monitoring sites such as alexa.com , which can monitor traffic for any site in the internet (although ...
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New traffic sources
How can I track new traffic sources for my site? (with google analytics or other tool)
For example, if site is mentioned on forum it gets some visits from here, but it isn't visible (easy) in traffic ...
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Is it possible to get information about competitor traffic?
Is there a possibility to get competitor website traffic info?
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Does anyone know any good resources for learning how to market a web app?
I'm a developer first and foremost. I write web apps but have a hard time generating traffic and converting potential users once I've released my product into the wild. I know I need to learn more ...
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How to calculate the actual count of downloads through bandwidth
I have a freeware hosted on my website, and use webalizer to track the traffic. I can get the data of my installation file from webalizer in section "Top 10 of 583 Total URLs By KBytes" (till Jan. ...
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Live Website Monitoring Tool [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Live view of online visitors
What is a good tool to monitor a website's traffic live? Is there something that shows a feed of people who is currently on your website?
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Is there a (free) reliable place to get statistics from sites, more reliable than Alexa, Quantcast, Compete?
I mean, seems there's no way. I am just asking in case someone knows of a recent new site being more accurate. I am aware of Alexa's, Compete and Quantcast inaccuracies and/or limited system/range of ...
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Estimate of Hits / Visits / Uniques in order to fall within a given Alexa Tier?
I was wondering if anyone could offer up rough estimates that could tell me how many hits a day move you into a given Alexa rank ?
Top 5,000
Top 10,000
Top 50,000
Top 100,000
Top ...
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Google Traffic droppend at christmas and is steady since?
as you can see in the picture my search engine traffic dropped exactly at christmas and is steady since.
has anybody experienced something similar or has a possible explanation?
at first i ...
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How to bring visitors to a new website? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to start driving traffic to a new website?
I am more of a programmer than an SEO expert.
Whenever I develop a new website, no matter how good or ...
