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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Subdomain versus subdirectory
I recently moved from having a main site like www.example.com with a subdomain associated site yyy.example.com, to moving everything off the subdomain to a subdirectory like www.example.com/yyy/, with ...
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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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Best Ways to Develop “Chicken and Egg Content” sites?
By 'chicken and egg content' I'm referring to user-contributed/crowdsourced content - sites like StackOverflow / StackExchange.
When SO launched, Jeff and Joel were essentially able to 'cheat' the ...
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How can I increase the traffic to my site?
I don't want to do link exchanges or anything shady. I just want some legitimate ways that I can direct a little bit more traffic to my site. How do I do that?
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What is the best way to launch a website to make it go viral?
Say for example I have a website that has finished BETA and is ready for full launch. I'm at the stage now I want it to be very visible to start getting traffic. Right now, I am just getting some ...
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If I have a page that gets a lot of StumbleUpon traffic, will that traffic fall if I move it?
Say I have a page that gets a lot of traffic via StumbleUpon. It's an ancient page, and I might want to move it to another site as part reorganizing my old site. I intend to keep the content ...
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Is Wikipedia a good source of traffic?
I would like to know, from your experience, if having a link on Wikipedia could generate some traffic to the pointed site.
For example, the references at the end of this sausages page points to :
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Which web directories can I reliably invest in to increase my traffic and search ranking?
I've been looking around for some web directories to list my company in that would 1) Feed more traffic to my website and 2) Increase my search rankings due to being a quality referral to my own ...
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Huge surge in direct traffic from one particular town
Last month I noticed that the direct visits on our site have increased by nearly 150% whilst bounce rate is also considerably up.
After drilling down further I can see that we have had nearly 2000 ...
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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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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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Is it possible to get information about competitor traffic?
Is there a possibility to get competitor website traffic info?
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Is 322 gigabytes traffic for Partial contents normal?
We have a small community for our university students. There we provide some tutorials and other stuff that may help students to accomplish their task better.
The catch is I think our traffic is ...
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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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How do large sites like SO handle their access logs?
i'm always wondering how large sites like SO handle their access logs. A write to the disk on every request seems a little bit uneconomical, but is Google Analytics that reliable to use it as your ...
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We changed our URL and our impressions dropped almost 100%
The company I worked for changed their domain about a month ago and updated the URLs for all of the pages. We mostly removed the .aspx from the ends and decreased the depth of many of our pages. We ...
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Is there a course I can learn that'll allow me to build sites that can handle heavy traffic?
A programmer friend is forever telling me that when I begin to use Drupal, Joomla or WordPress that I will only create sites that will crash as soon as the site begins to receive more attention / ...
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View traffic source on google analytics?
I noticed there was a sudden spike in traffic in my Google analytics. Is there a way to possibly identify where the traffic was from? It only happened on a specific date though.
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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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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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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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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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Should I use mixed content on my blog?
I have a blog. (just started) I am having a confusion whether I should keep the blog focused on only one subject (for instance, technology) or not?
If I post different posts on various topics (with ...
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Is there any way to discover the traffic of a site I don't control?
Given the following:
The website does not call any external images or scripts, all the content is hosted on a server that is in our control.
The website does not contain the meta tag, nor does it ...
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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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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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How do you prove your traffic to potential advertisers?
Potential advertisers always ask me how much traffic my website has, the number of unique visitors, etc. I have all these stats but I would like more transparency (otherwise how do they know I haven't ...
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Has anyone used WebFaction hosting for large traffic websites? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I'm a point where I'm needing to move a large traffic website off of MediaTemple Grid Server (it's maxing out the ...
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how can I see who is connecting to my websites on my server and possibly their ips?
1) How can I know how many people is connected to the server in a specific moment (or previous hours of the day). (Even in real-time)
2) How can I know which one of the websites on my server they are ...
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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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How much of the world's website traffic is attacks?
Does anyone have any statistics on how much of the total of the world's website traffic is
malicious? Every day I am amazed by the number of requests for .dll and similar things which don't appear ...
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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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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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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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At what thresh-hold should i get my blog its own domain?
Is there some kind of thresh-hold to start seriously considering buying a domain and moving away from the [name].[blogspot,etc].com?
In this case I have a blog that focuses on personal miscellany ...
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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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Will my traffic come back after my site redesign? [closed]
I screwed up. I launched my site after rebuilding it without setting up the proper 301's and traffic immediately dropped about 60%(it's not really something I thought about). After about a week and a ...
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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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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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SEO impact of server errors
Our website is up and running fine but a WordPress plugin is broken (we can't fix it very quickly) so a few hundred pages show server errors.
The pages would load header and page of the page body but ...
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How to track inbound HTTP traffic using Plesk 10.4.4?
I am running Plesk 10.4.4 on a Debian 6.0 server. The outbound traffic is being tracked but the inbound http traffic seems to be 0 at all times, i.e. looking at the DomainsTraffic and ClientsTraffic ...
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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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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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Unusual Spike in Traffic
My site received unusual spike of traffic today and they are all from the US, which is outside of my market. My site normally gets about 70-80 daily entrances according to Google Analytics, but there ...
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Estimating where my competitor is getting most of their traffic from? Organic, PPC, or other?
I'm trying to figure out how/where a website gets its traffic. How are they successful with bringing in traffic? Via Organic, PPC, other? What is the best approach to estimating this?
My thought ...
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How an offline main domain can influence traffic on an active sub domain
The website(s) design is for a company active in 3 different areas.
As an example lets use the following structure:
www.example.com
[sub1.example.com] [sub2.example.com] ...
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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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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 good is Traffic-Seeker?
I have recently setup my blog and I look forward to posting once a week. I want to increase traffic to my blog and was searching for good search-engine tools. I came across Traffic-Seeker and now I ...
