I'm facing website direct traffic-related issue on my website, how to solve it?
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I'm having a huge number of direct traffic on my website. But, I'm not able to know that from where traffic is approaching, like which source or website.
I want to know the source of traffic generating on my website?_Can anyone help on how to track this traffic? _
Can you recommend any Tool or some other way to know the source of traffic?
Due to direct traffic, the stats of my website are here: https://www.screencast.com/t/p3wxkLdJAL
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Direct traffic is almost always going to be one of your top traffic sources. There are a number of reasons people end up in this bucket.
- They open a new browser and go straight to your site. There is no referrer to track here and is what people think of when they see the Direct bucket.
- A user was on your site, but kept the tab open. Hours or days later, they get back to the tab and engage again. That is a direct session since there was not a referrer.
- A user is blocking the information of the referring site through their own computer settings. You can't control this.
- A mistake happens on the referring site's side. You can't see this either or do anything about it. A company I worked for saw a spike in Direct traffic that ended up being Snapchat ads once. There wasn't much to be done.
- A mistake is happening in your setup of Google Analytics. This is unlikely, but if you have a custom setup, talk to the person that is in charge of that on your site.
There are more instances here: https://moz.com/blog/guide-to-direct-traffic-google-analytics and some tips on cleaning this up if you suspect some traffic isn't being tagged correctly.
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