: Extremely large spike in traffic on the 1st - 4th of every month from mobile browsers I've noticed that on the 1st - 4th of the recent months (since January), several sites I maintain are
I've noticed that on the 1st - 4th of the recent months (since January), several sites I maintain are getting thousands of requests from mobile browsers, whereas throughout the rest of the month, the numbers are in the single or double digits.
Has anybody else noticed this sort of behavior?
I don't have the exact user agents logged, but my analysis software (WebTrends) reports the traffic as mostly iPhone/iPad/iPod, Android, and Blackberry.
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In Google Analytics, check that these are real users. If they are not visiting other pages on your site and only generating 1 pageview, and time on site is less than a minute. It's probably referral spam which sucks since you can't remove it from GA. Ban the IP in htaccess if it's truly referral spam
If your sites are utility company websites could the traffic spikes be related to billing cycles - are the companies putting out the url on print material around that time?
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