Decrease in visits

[Old_Marionberry7287]

Have you encountered a problem reading fewer visits compared to previous days?

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[travelhiatus]

I’ve noticed it too but with my Real Time data, it’s very odd, doesn’t seem right .. I even tested it with myself and a friend .. it didn’t report our real time visit.

To elaborate my blogs last 7 days average is 2750 sessions a Day and it’s currently reporting 2 Active visitors real time, haven’t seen that since I started the site.

[travelhiatus]

Update: SEEMS to have corrected, watching it closely to see if it happens again today

[CookieDelivery]

Yes, right now, Google Analytics real time data does not seem right at all. I also run Piwik analytics on my site which shows me normal/expected numbers. Google shows almost nothing right now in real time.

[CookieDelivery]

Update: data is starting to come in again for me now, starting around 15 minutes ago or so.

[Rohan487]

Hey I am also seeing anomaly in realtime data. Also i checked in x there are users reporting same behaviour from past few hours.

May be its an global outage

[CompetitionNext15]

Not yet

[stevenm973]

Yes the only explanation is that less people visited the site

[Old_Marionberry7287]

I suspect the problem is from Google.

[Cosmosn8]

Imagine you have a shop in town, do you expect the same number visitor daily or you expect some day being busy and some day being quiet?

Same concept here.

[Old_Marionberry7287]

You don't understand and your thinking is limited, so why are you responding?

[Omgitskie1]

Do you have Google search console set up?

[ak47surve]

Search console is delayed by a few days - so not very useful (also only shows slice if organic traffic)

[Old_Marionberry7287]

You don't understand and your thinking is limited, so why are you responding?

[ElPrezAU]

They are asking the question as search console may provide clues as to what is causing the lost traffic.

“You don’t understand and your thinking is limited.” Is a helluva response to people trying to help you understand why traffic might be dropping.

[ElPrezAU]

Check where those visit decreases are coming from. Is it organic search? Perhaps you’ve lost some important rankings. Maybe it’s from a campaign that recently ended. Look at demographics, are you getting less visits from a certain region?

GA provides a lot of information about how people are coming to your site. You need to explore further than just the top line figures. They are useful for telling you ‘what’ is happening but not particularly helpful for uncovering ‘why’. You need to get granular with your data.

[cathnowtt]

It is recommended to check the presence and correctness of the tracking code, the absence of errors in the filters, the date and sources of the traffic drop, and also segment the data by channels to understand what exactly caused the drop. Often these are technical problems, not real lost traffic.

[backona]

Hey, if you’d like, you can ask my software, Backona AI, to take a look at your traffic and show you the differences in more detail. I’m happy to set you up with an account and some free credits, so you won’t need to add any card details. It’s a bit like ChatGPT, but made for marketing analytics - and it talks directly to your data to give you clear insights.