: How do I interpret direct traffic that lands on random pages? Looking at yesterday, according to Google Analytics, I got six direct visitors to my site (their source/medium is direct/(none)).
Looking at yesterday, according to Google Analytics, I got six direct visitors to my site (their source/medium is direct/(none)). Only one ended up at the actual domain. The other five ended up at miscellaneous foo.com/xyz.html. I did not send out links to people by email, and I'm not sure how likely it is the people would have copy/pasted the URLs.
How do the visitors end up there? Is there a way to better capture where they might be coming from?
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It basically means these requests are missing the http referrer header. There are several reasons why that would be the case -
A https page has a link to your website, and the user follows that link. Browsers don't send the referrer in case of a https -> http transition. A simple case is a search engine accessed via https.
They are behind some kind of proxy that strips out referrer headers, or they have deliberately installed a browser plugin to do that.
Someone is trying to scrape your website using a custom program (not browser), and is not sending the http referrer.
6 requests is a very small number. If you see several hundreds of requests, you could try to co-relate and find out more information. Otherwise, there is no definite answer.
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