A 1 yr. lookback report on Anonymous users revealed this: [image] I suspect the spike at July 31st will always be a mystery, but clearly something happened in the March 13-20 week. Anyone else experience something similar? Any ideas on root cause? We’ve done nothing with respect to marketing,…

Here’s Bing (only) from Jan 1 till now: [image] Here’s Google (only) same time period: [image]

Looks like a drop of about 40% in crawler users for Bing and similar for Google corresponding to the same time in your first graph. How do the pageviews per crawler look here /admin/reports/page_view_crawler_reqs?

Significant Drop in Anonymous Traffic March 2020

Community Building Data & reporting

omarfilip December 10, 2020, 8:10pm 2

Can you check your stats (Google Analytics) to see where the majority of pre-March 22 traffic was coming from? Perhaps a crawler? Bing comes to mind.

https://meta.discourse.org/search?expanded=true&q=bing%20bot

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Significant Drop in Anonymous Traffic March 2020

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