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Weird traffic from itch.io referrer alert 🚨

A topic by Synapse created 32 days ago Views: 154 Replies: 4
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Few days ago I started to see significant increase in traffic (2x) from around 400/day to 800/day, and realized it comes from https://tobittori.itch.io/game-night referrer. 



At the same time, addings to collection dropped 80%, follows dropped 100%

Is it something I should worry about?
Thank you!

Seems kinda like a bug. There is also  probability that the autohor of the game have link inside a game which send players to your page. Why ? no idea maybe he did it by mistake ? 

I think it is the related games feature on the page now. It is just for the first time so I panic a little -__-

The second half of your question is the one worth chasing, and it's a rate versus count problem.

Related games traffic is low intent by construction. Somebody clicking a tile next to another game was not looking for yours, so a large block of those visitors will never follow or collect. If views doubled and follows per view halved, that's arithmetic rather than damage.

So compare absolute numbers, not rates. If follows per day are roughly flat while views went 400 to 800, nothing broke. If absolute follows genuinely fell while views rose, that's a different problem and worth a ticket.

One caveat on that table. It shows only a top slice of referrers and it leaves out visits that arrive with no referrer at all, so the mix can look like it shifted when your other sources never moved.

Follow per day went -100%, maybe it is coinscidence, I am not sure yet. But I was getting 1 to 3 follow each day. 

I do understand that if it is related games route - then yes, people from not so related project might be not very interested in this one, and just pass by.

Absolute follows stays, you mean the already fllowed ones. All good, and download count still going too, and overall not enough data to really judge or analyze, so I am just half-paniking here.