AliveBoy Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Bit of a random one this, I've signed up to google analytics, which gives me a breakdown of my website views by country. in the last month (29th June to 29th July) I've had the following views: Brazil 24 UK 19 Italy 4 Argentina 2 Mexico 2 USA 2 Albania 1 Ecuador 1 Estonia 1 France 1 I don't publicise the site anywhere that I can think of, and I don't know anyone from Brazil, or even South America as a whole! The 19 UK views don't bother me, as they're probably my Mum but all of the others are a mystery to me! Does anyone else get any random views on sites they manage? Am I likely to be able to be scammed by them? I'm just a bit puzzled by it that's all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinjj Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 How old is the website?... does it come up on a Google search... is it a Wordpress platform? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliveBoy Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 It's via Godaddy, it comes up if you know EXACTLY what to search for, which is my name and then something like "drifting" afterwards, had it about a year now and it literally started around a month ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinjj Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 My initial thought is that your site is now indexed at 2 Google data centre locations, Americas and Europe, hence why no hits from Asia, Africa etc, The 24 hits from Brazil are a little out of scale compared to the rest of the Americas so i would say that some kind of crawler (bot) has been popping in for a nosy or your mum was in Brazil for the World Cup finals.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliveBoy Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 Oh ok cool, so nothing to worry about then? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinjj Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I wouldn't, its been a few years since i practiced the art of analytics and webmaster tools etc, you will get totally unexpected results all the time, its not worth getting hung up about if its just your own personal site and your not trying to rank on Google's first page or so for a specific search. If you are using a blogging platform such as Wordpress, then be sure to keep it updated, (same goes for any plugins). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliveBoy Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 Awesome, thank you, much appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Payco Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Football World Cup was in Brazil. Once their team crashed pathetically out they all probably went surfing on google !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnH Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I don't see why you'd worry, it's a website! If you don't want people to see it either choose a platform that isn't a public facing website or password protect it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliveBoy Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share Posted July 29, 2014 I was just concerned about the amount of views from south america bearing in mind I've never been there and not publicised it anywhere, it was a bit random that's all. The more views the better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twobears Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I used to get views from some very strange countries sometimes but I didn't give it much thought. I think it must be normal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psmurphy Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Stats for mine (R33 Skyline Project) for this month Brazil is number 3 ??!! Country / Territory Sessions % Sessions 1. United Kingdom 307 32.69% 2. Australia 177 18.85% 3. Brazil 88 9.37% 4. Germany 48 5.11% 5. United States 39 4.15% 6. Canada 34 3.62% 7. New Zealand 21 2.24% 8. France 17 1.81% 9. Sweden 13 1.38% 10. Finland 12 1.28% 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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