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Questions tagged [web-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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How big sites scale up and optimize to massive traffic?

How do sites like Facebook and Twitter optimize their sites for massive traffic. Aside from spending big bucks on getting the best servers, what can be optimized in your code to accommodate massive traffic? I've read about caching your pages to…
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Why do I get "irrelevant" URLs in the full referrer field in google analytics?

When looking in Google Analytics for referrers to a specific page, I use the following: Navigate to Behaviour > Site Content > All Pages Search and select the page that I need. Secondary dimension > Behaviour > Full Referrer In the results, I get…
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80% of Website Traffic coming from Just one Town in USA - Strange?

For the last month, 80% of my total traffic was coming from just one Town in the USA. Here are the attributes: It is one of the richest towns in California in USA which defies logic since I run a website for coupons. The bounce rate is not 100%. It…
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What could cause a page to stop from appearing on StumbleUpon?

I've got a page that got some attention from stumbleupon (~100 likes and ~2700 views), and then suddenly 'disappeared' - stumbles stopped completely. The page content wasn't changed in any way. Looking at StumbleUpon's content guidelines, no…
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Suspicious Web Traffic from Amazon.com ISP

Just a few hours back I was checking my logs when I found a whole bunch of traffic from IP address 54.174.xx.xx and ISP Amazon.com (validated from Google analytics). It lasted for an hour and then everything seems normal. This is something very…
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Hundreds of requests to the same page from legitimate visitor

I am seeing an odd scenario in our apache access logs. We are running Magento EE and every once in awhile I will get an alert that DB connections have spiked. On several occasions I have been able to load the server-status page and see hundreds of…
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How do websites like trafficestimate.com and digsitesvalue estimate web traffic?

I am curious as to how trafficestimate and digsitesvalue work or where they get their data. trafficestimate.com basically estimates how much traffic my web site gets. My initial thought was that they multiply an Alexa value by some constant but I…
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Sudden "organic" traffic growing after AdWords campaign starting

The situation: My site had no organic traffic from Google. It has some referral traffic. After I have launched adwords, my "organic" traffic increased, but not "paid" and no money has been spent in adwords. AdWords and Google Analytics accounts are…
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What does "selling traffic" mean?

I've been told that a marketing team want to "sell the traffic" of a website rather than sell adverts on the site. A Google wasn't very successful as to what this means. I thought perhaps it just meant pop-unders (argh!), but wondered if anyone has…
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Do videos bring more traffic than backlinks in general?

Yesterday, I had a conversion with a friend who was implementing SEO techniques on his websites a couple of years ago. He also stopped this activity since then. He claims that relevant YouTube videos are bringing more traffic than relevant…
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Large number of hits from IP addresses that reverse lookup to "cache.google.com"

We are seeing a large amount of server requests by IP addresses claiming to be cache.google.com and they are coming from all sorts of (unexpected) countries too. Currently the FW blocks servers that make too many connections. They are not users but…
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Is it ok to block search engine bots from China and Russia on USA based eCommerce site?

After blocking all traffic from China and Russia ( using Incapsula ) on an eCommerce application which only ship into USA, I noticed a significant performance improvement. Is there any drawback of country wide crawlers blocking consider SEO? Am I…
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Unexplained spike in Affiliate conversions

I've been seeing a massive conversion spike in affiliate sales (Pepperjam single advertiser). But no change in traffic. I'll show three months below, but I could just as easily go back years and the graphs would look basically the same. The changes…
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How can Similarweb.com monitor traffic of one website they don't own?

The title is self-explained, darn I have to type and match 30 characters constraint
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