What counts as direct traffic- Google Analytics
Direct traffic = Visitors that came to your site without first visiting a search engine, another site or some marketing tactic. Below are some ways that the traffic is marked as direct: 1. Somebody typed in the link or used a bookmark 2. They clicked on a link in an email (not always true. If they used some kind of web mail, the web mail server will be the referrer) 3. The link was in a document 4. The link originates at a secure (https:) page and your page is not secure (http) 5. Spiders and bots were working from a list of URLs from a previous crawl (this one mostly applies to server logs, rarely to SDC) 6. Spiders and bots may be programmed to suppress the referrer information (this one mostly applies to server logs, rarely to SDC) 7. The visitor is using IE and the link to your site was in Javascript. Javascript links to your site include those that open your site in a new browser window, or any kind of javascript redirect. (Most banners are setup like this). 8. The visitor is usin