Sudden surge in hits

Chris H

I've had a steady trend of 25-30 hits per day on my site for about a year now, for some unknown reason in the last week this has gone up to somewhere between 150-200 per day. The increase in hits is almost all direct traffic with about 80% bounce rate and is from all over the globe.

Now I'd like to think that I've just become very popular but I suspect something fishy is going on with google analyticals. Either it's not telling me the truth or it's recording a single hit as multiples for some reason.

Any ideas? Just thought I'd check that the problem isn't coming from the Smugmug end.

Chris

bwg

Chris H wrote: »

I've had a steady trend of 25-30 hits per day on my site for about a year now, for some unknown reason in the last week this has gone up to somewhere between 150-200 per day. The increase in hits is almost all direct traffic with about 80% bounce rate and is from all over the globe.

Now I'd like to think that I've just become very popular but I suspect something fishy is going on with google analyticals. Either it's not telling me the truth or it's recording a single hit as multiples for some reason.

Any ideas? Just thought I'd check that the problem isn't coming from the Smugmug end.

Chris

we had an issue a few weeks ago where every pageview was counting as a visit on custom domains, but that was fixed May 25. What metric is throwing you off? Pageviews? Visits?

have you switched over to the integrated google analytics yet?

http://releasenotes.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/05/20/google-analytics-new-upload-button-and-bug-fixes/

Mox

I'm experiencing the exact same phenomenon. Direct hits that are mostly bounces.

I haven't tried integrating yet..will see if it changes anything.

Chris H

bigwebguy wrote: »

we had an issue a few weeks ago where every pageview was counting as a visit on custom domains, but that was fixed May 25. What metric is throwing you off? Pageviews? Visits?

have you switched over to the integrated google analytics yet?

http://releasenotes.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/05/20/google-analytics-new-upload-button-and-bug-fixes/

Thanks, it might be that. Wasn't sure if I should bother switching over but will give it a try.

Erick L

bigwebguy wrote: »

we had an issue a few weeks ago where every pageview was counting as a visit on custom domains, but that was fixed May 25.

I'm having this exact problem since May 25th.

have you switched over to the integrated google analytics yet?

Do we have to?

Andy

Erick L wrote: »

Do we have to?

you should - the tracking won't change, the data will be the same.

bwg

Andy wrote: »

you should - the tracking won't change, the data will be the same.

its highly encouraged to switch over. it wont reset your stats, your pages will load faster and you'll always be on the latest and greatest version of google analytics.

Chris H

Switched over and normal service is resumed.

So it turns out that I'm not that popular after all. :cry