We saw the same significant drop yesterday, too. There have been some links to AdRoll and Perfect Audience mentioned in the comments sections of http://www.seroundtable.com/direct-traffic-ie7-analytics-18897.html. Both of those companies have made a response in the comments too.
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RE: Huge Spike in Direct Traffic from IE7
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RE: Huge Spike in Direct Traffic from IE7
Thank so much! I think I will try CloudFlare out.
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RE: Huge Spike in Direct Traffic from IE7
Thanks for your response.
There isn't a specific location and/or network that stands out, which is really strange.
AT&T is up 14,050%, Time Warner is up 2,300%, Comcast is up 18,600% (all for direct IE 7 traffic).
California, Texas, Florida are all showing large jumps for IE 7 direct traffic, with CA being the largest. That's not surprising since we're a CA college system, but we're also not seeing a specific city responsible for the spike. It's spread out across LA, Fresno, Bakersfield, etc.
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RE: Huge Spike in Direct Traffic from IE7
Thanks for the response.
I checked with my team, and to their recollection, nobody ordered a campaign that would have caused this. Our webmaster is reporting no server damage, either.
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Huge Spike in Direct Traffic from IE7
Our site is seeing a huge spike in direct (none) traffic from IE 7 from July 8, 2014 - on. June 25 - July 7 showed 21 direct visits from IE 7; July 8 - July 20 is showing 5,889 (an increase of 27,943%). All traffic from the spike is going to our homepage.
Other Google Analytics' stats for this direct (none) IE 7 traffic:
Bounce Rate: 99.52%
Avg. Session Duration: 0:02
Pages/session: 1.01
Mostly all new usersWhat's strange is that the traffic is from a variety of cities and networks. What could be causing this? Has anyone experienced this before?
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