Hey everyone,
Looking for some ideas to solve this problem.
Between Nov 9 and 13, the number of visitors to feverbee experts tracked from feverbee.com suddenly plummeted to zero.
This could just be a tracking problem (albeit I’m not sure how) or it could be something I’ve changed. But, I can’t see / think of anything I’ve changed. So I’m open to ideas.
Anyone think they can figure it out? Feel free to use archive.org if you like?
Did you make any changes to the site around that time, as you could have accidentally deleted important tracking information?
Saw this comment you made in a thread in November:-
Also made a slight tweak on the site structure today. Positioned the top challenges / discussions higher up on the page. Going to give it a week to see if I like it.
Worth checking.
Have you got the link to that thread?
Your explanation sounds the most plausible to me.
Very surprised about it though.
Making changes can sometimes mess about with your tags that analytics needs. Would make sense seeing it completely drop off like that.
yes, this definitely seems to be it.
The timing is exact.
Relatively glad it’s not an actual drop in traffic.
There’s also something that I’ve experienced on a site. When we moved the site to https:// there was a big drop in referral traffic from external sites.
Turns out if you have a link on an https:// site that sends traffic to another https:// site but uses for the link http:// then it no longer gets counted in referral traffic.
SO if that was part of the site change - moving from http:// to https:// - that could contribute to the problem. Any old links will still be http://
It’s related to this (see link below) but a little more complicated since it can be that both sites on either side of the exchange are https but the link itself is http
– well that’s what I found when researching the problem anyway.
thanks @lorraine_pocklington
Useful information. Thanks for sharing.
I’m not sure that’s the situation here as we didn’t make a similar change around that time. I supsect @Mjbill is probably right on this one. Just figuring out how to fix it now.
This is expected behavior,
When going between HTTP and HTTPS the HTTP spec says that a referer header should NOT be sent (see 15.1.3 in RFC2616).
This is my tool of choice for debugging Google Analytics
Are you still seeing issues? I noticed some Javascript errors that may be causing you to lose some pageviews.