How do I find out where my "direct traffic" came from?
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Last weekend we had a significant rise in traffic to our site. Digging in to Google Analytics, most of it has come from the USA, with some from Canada, Australia and a few other countries. It has all gone to the same article on our website. I have also found that it has mostly come from Safari (in app), on an ipad and iphone.
Google Analytics has put this down as Direct traffic. My feeling is that it is not. Could it be from a social media app - perhaps someone with many followers has pinned from our site, or something along these lines.
Could it actually be organic search traffic and Google misattributing it as Direct?
Bounce rate and time on site is fine, so I don't think it's a bot / spam.
Any ideas / places I could go to help me find out would be appreciated, thank you.Joss
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Thank you, Dirk. This sounds very possible. I will see if I can find a mention on there.
Thanks,
Joss -
Maybe your site was mentioned in the Apple News App ? Check this article: http://www.i4u.com/2015/09/95161/apple-news-app-referral-traffic-spikes - apparently no referral info is passed when traffic is coming from Apple News.
rgds
Dirk
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