Internal Referral Traffic Issue due to https/http?
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Hi Mozzers,
we´re running a secured https account section on our website including a messaging center where lots of non secured own URLs are being shared among the users. Is there a possibility that a user clicking on one of the shared URLs within the https section triggering another session thats been counted as direct traffic?
Thanks for your help!
Greets
Manson -
If you only have the one Google Analytics script on all pages it shouldn't count as referrer traffic. Are there pages on the site that do not have your GA code installed? That's usually the cause for seeing referral traffic from your own domain.
Another common issue I've heard about is when a user sits idle for a long time on the site and their session expires. At that point clicking on an internal link may be counted as a referrer.
The following two posts should help you figure out what the issue is. Please come back and let us know how it went.
https://threeventures.com/how-to-fix-self-referrals-in-google-analytics/
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