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June 8, 2011 3:50 pm  #1


Your Biggest Single-Day Unexplained Spike in Visits?

Hi

I'm sure everyone here knows daily visits (traffic) to our sites go up and down with a level of randomness.  We get some busy days and some quiet days. Some days we get lots of visits cause of some unusual promotion to the site (e.g. requesting flags on here). 

Has anyone had one REALLY unusual statistical outlier in terms of visits?  If you look at my site here, for March 18, 2011, I suddenly had 178 new visitors that day, when for the month I was averaging less than 80, and my previously advertised high count was 121.  The surprising thing is that I made no unusual efforts to advertise my site that one day. Check it out:

http://s04.flagcounter.com/more365/K4dr/5

March 30, 2011    70
March 29, 2011    90
March 28, 2011    87
March 27, 2011    77
March 26, 2011    63
March 25, 2011    70
March 24, 2011    66
March 23, 2011    66
March 22, 2011    76
March 21, 2011    95
March 20, 2011    85
March 19, 2011    88
March 18, 2011    178 **
March 17, 2011    69
March 16, 2011    72
March 15, 2011    64
March 14, 2011    71
March 13, 2011    56
March 12, 2011    55
March 11, 2011    45
March 10, 2011    56
March 9, 2011    57
March 8, 2011    53
March 7, 2011    63
March 6, 2011    59
March 5, 2011    50
March 4, 2011    59
March 3, 2011    54
March 2, 2011    69
March 1, 2011    69

Not sure what happened that day for me to get all those visits. Any similar stories?


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June 8, 2011 6:12 pm  #2


Re: Your Biggest Single-Day Unexplained Spike in Visits?

Yep:
12.062 Flag Counter views on March 29, 2011 - normally about 2.100 - 2.600...

 

June 8, 2011 6:16 pm  #3


Re: Your Biggest Single-Day Unexplained Spike in Visits?

No, I've got a shitload of visits every day.


https://s05.flagcounter.com/more/MECnk/

251/251 countries and 3,860/3,860 flags collected.
 

June 8, 2011 11:22 pm  #4


Re: Your Biggest Single-Day Unexplained Spike in Visits?

My visits get spiked when my back is turned or I go to the toilet.

 

June 9, 2011 6:34 am  #5


Re: Your Biggest Single-Day Unexplained Spike in Visits?

lol whats that ? 80 visitors in plus? maybe it was sunday or saturday i sometimes average 35,000 visits per day but do get 75,000 - 100,000 sometimes =/ its not a suprise that on sunday people eneter there computers mroe ...


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June 11, 2011 4:59 pm  #6


Re: Your Biggest Single-Day Unexplained Spike in Visits?

> i sometimes average 35,000 visits per day but do get 75,000 - 100,000 sometimes =/ its not a suprise that on sunday people eneter there computers mroe ...

Well, that's exactly the point.  Sometimes its 75,000, sometimes its 100,000. Like I said, there's random variation.  Just cause your site gets more visits, that doesn't mean my site doesn't undergo random variation. Did you see the data above? 

March 20, 2011    85
March 19, 2011    88
March 18, 2011    178 **
March 17, 2011    69
March 16, 2011    72

Think about marks you get in school.  Usually they are around a certain value.  Or what about the number of times you blink in a day? Or how many steps it takes you to walk across the street?  Usually they are around a certain range. What I'm saying is that 178 exceeded the random range for visits to my site and this is the observation I'm making in this thread.

Last edited by TaiwanSummer (June 11, 2011 5:23 pm)


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June 11, 2011 10:30 pm  #7


Re: Your Biggest Single-Day Unexplained Spike in Visits?

how do you find out how many in a day

 

June 12, 2011 3:03 am  #8


Re: Your Biggest Single-Day Unexplained Spike in Visits?

March 18, 2011    601   
March 17, 2011    808   
March 16, 2011    884
March 15, 2011    1,362
March 14, 2011    1,608   
March 13, 2011    1,425   
March 12, 2011    1,586   
March 11, 2011    3,067***** =>Tsunami day
March 10, 2011    101   
March 9, 2011    124   
March 8, 2011    96   
March 7, 2011    103   
March 6, 2011    92   

The only reason is i have a map of Japan on the blog.

 

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