| Noticable Changes in Traffic After WP and Plugin Updates
Anyone else notice this? |
mhansen
msg:4336592 | 8:12 pm on Jul 7, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Is it just me... or does anyone else notice peaks and valleys in their traffic referrals from search within a few days of WordPress core, or Plugin Updates?
- Last 10-15 days, steady and climbing traffic on a site. (exception of holiday)
- Yesterday, Updated WP core and W3cache and the only other 3-4 plugins used on the site. Traffic remained on trend.
- Today... Ghost town! (Down 60-70%)
Has anyone else been able to pin traffic changes on updates?
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bhartzer
msg:4336601 | 8:21 pm on Jul 7, 2011 (gmt 0) |
How are you looking at the traffic? Are you looking at the site's server log files or something like Google Analytics?
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mhansen
msg:4336612 | 8:38 pm on Jul 7, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Logfiles... as well as AwStats, and WP.com Stats on the site itself.
Uniques drop like a rock...
Pageviews per visit remains level.
I also prefer to watch for trends over periods of time rather than spikes or dips, but the correlation with WP updates is noticeable.
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lorax
msg:4336669 | 10:36 pm on Jul 7, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I manage about 30 installs and have not seen a correlation in updates to traffic levels. If anything, they're all growing nice a steady (barring the normal peaks and valleys).
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mhansen
msg:4336913 | 1:06 pm on Jul 8, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Thanks All... Today, 1-2 days after flushing and refreshing the W3 cache, traffic is trending back to the norm. I will have to note it all in the site-book and check it again on the next refresh as well.
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