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,…

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

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

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ked (Kenny DuBose) December 10, 2020, 8:15pm 3

Here’s Bing (only) from Jan 1 till now:

Here’s Google (only) same time period:

Topic		Replies	Views
Help me understand the Anonymous Users statistics Data & reporting	8	1294	March 6, 2019
Spike in anonymous users Product Support	1	525	May 2, 2019
How can I figure out why I have a big jump in anonymous pageviews Data & reporting	10	1439	March 9, 2022
Pageviews from Anonymous Users have exploded but Google Analytics showed no traffic growth. How to find about where the increase come from? Data & reporting	23	2650	January 5, 2021
Anonymous users in Consolidated Pageviews Data & reporting	1	495	January 10, 2022

Significant Drop in Anonymous Traffic March 2020

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