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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Is it possible to count the number of hits or loads of a webpage without anything fancy?
I know very little, but I do know that I have some server space given by my University with a file called public_html which anyone can load html and other files from. So is there a simple way to add ...
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Piwik Server Overhead
I am developing an intranet site on a Raspberry Pi and am interested in incorporating Piwik into my code. My question, however, is how much overhead impact there will be with the pi's CPU/RAM? Does ...
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A lot of “(direct) / (none)” traffic in Google Analytics
my web site has a lot of "(direct) / (none)" traffic (over 50%) in Google Analytics, but under the "Audience", 100% are new visitors, why is that?
I am quite sure most of the Audience should be new ...
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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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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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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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Advice on Advertisement Charges from WebMasters
I run a programming site and was contacted by a big product company. They want to publish 8 product posts about their product (they will write) in the next 6 months and purchase 5 million impressions ...
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How to detect search engine bots reliably within asp.net website?
What is the best way to detect bot generated activity (clicks/page visits) etc on a asp.net website? We have a website where we track leads generated to external websites, we track the IP of the user ...
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Recovery from URL structure change?
in July this year, we have changed the URL structure of the website from:
Post: domain.com/blog/post/986/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by-chinatsu/
Category: domain.com/blog/index/cosplay/
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Will traffic exchange programs work in pay per impression ad campaigns?
I'm having a technology blog with nearly 3000 visitors a day (1000 - 1300 unique visitors). I'm generating visitors through traffic exchange programs like hitleap.com, addmefast.com.
Now I'm ...
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Google analytics - drop in traffic [duplicate]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What places give free traffic for an e-commerce website?
One place that I know is Google Product search, which is free and gives quite a lot of traffic when people are searching for products you sell.
What other ways are there to get free traffic to your ...
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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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Does having video on a website increase the quality of traffic coming to the site?
I was wondering if anyone had any actual statistics on this. I was curious if having a video on a website makes an exceptional difference to the quality of traffic coming to the site.
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High traffic by “doin' nothing”
We have set up on a VPS a WordPress blog. But, after we work a while, if we leave the tabs open in our browsers, there is upload traffic, in small chunks but quite often. We thought that it might be ...
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What are the best ways to start driving traffic to a new website?
Would you try for SEO, Adwords, or other ad programs? Why? How cost effective is it?
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Should I Choose Hosting Location From Traffic Source Location?
I am running my blog site on godaddy shared hosting, at US. But my site's top visitors percentage are as follows:
India - 25%
USA - 15%
UK - 4%
Now as major are from india, should I choose a ...
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Is there an easy way to see the Top 100 Global Websites based on monthly uniques?
I can easily see the top 100 sites on Quantcast, or most of their competitors, but they're based on US uniques.
Now, Quantcast provides Top Lists for non-US Visitors, but they're country by country, ...
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What's the relation between website's traffic and Google Adsense revenue?
Are there some relations between the website's daily traffic and Google's Adsense revenue? In other word, Suppose the same Ad. will be published on two different websites, the first has average daily ...
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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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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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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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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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Where do I find traffic sources for same-domain traffic?
I have two different Google Analytics accounts set up. One that is used everywhere on example.com, and another that is used only within the example.com/blog path. I'm trying to figure out where ...
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Track user traffic source and display a slightly customized page? [closed]
I was wondering if there's a possibility to track where a user comes from e.g. AdWords or Referal or Facebook etc and based on this information to show a different page?
For example it would be very ...
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cPanel Monthly Bandwidth Traffic - HTTP Traffic Extremely High
So I have a website/blog which I have hosted with a service which is offering me 2000mb of monthly bandwidth traffic.
I recently have started getting a lot of traffic, or I suppose, enough to push me ...
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Google Traffic Decline
Below is a chart which shows traffic from Google for a new website. What could be the reason for those dynamics: fast growth and slow decline?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xmv3kd3q0l2iyaa/traffic.png
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I'm thinking of moving my site to Squarespace as I have little time to manage my site
I'm thinking of moving my site to Squarespace, I have around 40 pages with videos, screenshots and web forms etc, my blog is wordpress and I want to move everything on to Squarespace. My worry is that ...
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Site blocked by content filter
I run a large and high trafficked WordPress powered platform. One of my editors informed me that our site is blocked at his workspace as a "games site". They use WebCat to filter the traffic.
The ...
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hosting images on image hosting websites [duplicate]
my website traffic has increased a lot and now in some cases has difficulties handling these users specially on busy hours. I want save some of the images on the website on image hostings so that they ...
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Weird referral traffic [duplicate]
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Strange incoming links appearing on site statistics
I'm getting weird traffic from Japan, from a site called ime.nu
Why weird? because I'm not able to identify the link ...
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Is there any alternative to web analytics websites? [duplicate]
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Self hosted Web Analytics like urchin
There are sites that provide web analytics solutions. But I don not want dependence to external sites and I want embed an analyzer ...
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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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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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What could cause a drop in direct traffic (all other sources remain constant)?
One of my sites has shown a significant drop in direct traffic. Organic and Referral traffic remain relatively constant.
The only possible contributing factor I can think of is a recent DNS change ...
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At what traffic point is it worth it to start looking to put ads on a website? [closed]
My Google Analytics have slowly been climbing over time and I'm wondering how many unique visitors I need to make it worth my time to look into monetizing that traffic with advertising on the site? ...
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Google Analytics: 300% direct traffic increase - due to load balancing or tracking code change?
Last Wednesday we changed the domain name of the Analytics cookie used on our online retail site to be able to better track our outsourced on-site search.
Following some discrepancies in the traffic ...
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How to block baidu spiders
Most of my visits are from baidu spiders. I don't think it helps search engines at all so I'm thinking of how to block them. Could this be done via iptables? I'm using nginx as my webserver.
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Traffic from site like pu.gg, goo.gl?
Why is it that I get pageviews from sites like pu.gg, goo.gl? What does it mean? Am I visited by hackers? Is there any way to block this kind of page view from my analytics? I am kind'a alarm with ...
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View competitors popular web pages
Just wanted to know if there is an online tool that shows a website most popular pages from highest to least.
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Traffic services: useful or a waste of time?
I found some services which offer to buy traffic.
buysitetraffic.com
revisitors.com
perfectraffic.com
Has anyone works with them?
Or maybe You have own experience with another services?
Is this ...
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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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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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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 ...
