Referrals - How is it possible I have 5 new users and 100 sessions over a 2 week period?
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I have a referral from an email (2), android search(1) and another website(2) but my sessions is 100 over a two week period?
I have NO returning visitors (still session data though?)
Seems unlikely that just these 5 users have generated 100 sessions!!
Any ideas?
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Hi this could be also Spam traffic or aka ghost traffic. You can find it easily through Google Analytics. By simply, checking the hostname of these referrals. If the hostname these seems like wired or not set up this could be the case for sure.
In case of, How you can prevent them. It simply add a filter in your Google Analytics.Here is complate guide to set up and these filter: https://moz.com/blog/stop-ghost-spam-in-google-analytics-with-one-filter
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Is the time on page more than 0 seconds? If so, it is unlikely to be bot traffic
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hmmmm I hadn't thought it could be a bot....the metrics show pages visited and time on page but no user data. (apart from above).
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To check that this isn't bot traffic, what are the engagement stats for these sessions? (I.e. session duration/ pages per session).
If these metrics show zero engagment, it is possible that this is bot traffic.
Alternatively, could this be someone within your organisation or your web developer testing some features?
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