Traffic drop on 1st Feb?
February 2nd, 2007
It’s quite usual for there to be a smooth increase and decrease of visitors during the week, with most sites you can stop some nice trends as to which days of the week your site is most popular (people doing a bit of shopping during lunch hours etc). However, we seem to have recorded around a 10-20% drop in traffic over 30 websites, all of which are on seperate hosting, some have marketing, some don’t, some are even personal sites owned by staff here.
I’ve compiled this quick overview of a few sites from Analytics:
I was wondering if anybody else has experienced this drop, or can shed any light on it? Did I miss a big world event? Was the 1st Feb national “No Internet Day”?.
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Yesterday at 7p.m. people were supposed to “power down” for 5 minutes, meaning turning off all devices that are normally on “stand by.” Maybe that had a bit to do with it.
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:17 pmHi Chris,
Nobody told me about that! I’ve had feedback from several other users and it appears to be a problem with Google Analytics for this day.
I’d like more info on this power down if you have a link for me?
February 2nd, 2007 at 4:51 pmMaybe its because Feb has 28 days?
I didn’t hear anything about a power down either. They usually put info like that on thier blog ( http://analytics.blogspot.com/ ) but there was no mention of a power down for feb.
What I did find was info about system maintenance, where they report of ‘delayed data’.
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2007/02/update-temporary-reporting-delay_02.html#links
Hope this may answer your question.
Mike
April 18th, 2007 at 1:28 pm