Comment on Ask HN: Google spike of direct trafficparentComments−_ud4aOP14yit's direct traffic. they are mainly hitting 2 pages on our site.the organic traffic from google has been consistent going up and down slightly which is normal.however the direct traffic shot up from 1100 to 14000 a day!i'm not too worried now since it's not eating too much bandwidth but it could cause an issue soon by bogging down all the bandwidth.in my robots.txt i have: User-Agent: * Disallow: /rate.php Disallow: /ratewp.php Disallow: /brokenLink.php Disallow: /download.phpshould i restrict the user-agent to only bing, google and yahoo to see if that might be it?the fact that it's all US based IPs is what's weird.
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it's direct traffic. they are mainly hitting 2 pages on our site.
the organic traffic from google has been consistent going up and down slightly which is normal.
however the direct traffic shot up from 1100 to 14000 a day!
i'm not too worried now since it's not eating too much bandwidth but it could cause an issue soon by bogging down all the bandwidth.
in my robots.txt i have: User-Agent: * Disallow: /rate.php Disallow: /ratewp.php Disallow: /brokenLink.php Disallow: /download.php
should i restrict the user-agent to only bing, google and yahoo to see if that might be it?
the fact that it's all US based IPs is what's weird.