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Are there numerous things to check or any tips?
I have not changed domains only servers so the IP address has changed.
DNS seems to be working fine.
Should I remove all the stuff from my old server and do a whole site IP redirect?
Thanks
I cannot share the url but find it unusual to experience a drop of over 50% in traffic.
Googlebot visited but not for as long as she normally does and only covered a few pages rather than a few hundred or thousand.
It has now been some 6 days since the move.
Thanks for any suggestions.
The server is dedicated so no porn.
Everything else is the same our SERP's, sales, Adsense, Adwords etc.
Just the hits in the stats which have dropped over 50%.
The DNS seems to be working fine etc.
This should not account for a 50% reported drop in hits however.
ISP caching can account for some lost hits in reporting, but not 50%+ unless you have a very unusual site.
I guess it has now been at least 4 days since you made the switch? Have you seen any recovery? Is it possible that the US holiday weekend is influencing your numbers?
Is it possible the new numbers reported are by a different piece of analysis software?
When switching, reporting can be inaccurate because of ISP caching, local page caching and a few other less important elements. But I would be worried about 50%+....under 10% I wouldn't lose too much sleep over as that it probably not real and will recover in the reports in time.
Always remember that no "hits" or "visitors" report is accurate, but for a high traffic site the numbers shouldn't drop by large percentages simply because of a hosting change.
Bottom line, by now most people are finding the site.....chances are the reports are not accurately reflecting that fact.
I agree a 10% drop would not be a problem in fact I had already told myself that there could be a 10-20% drop just for logicistic reasons but this is actually much more than 50% (closer to 75%).
It has been some 10 days or so since we moved. There was a problem moving which resulted in us having to reupload all the files to the new server.
This initially made the stats programme show a hits at around 22 a day! Presumably it was uploaded incorrectly when there was a problem and so wasn't working properly.
There I panicked and had the host reinstall the stats programme but it has only increased from the 22 a day to only 75% fraction of the tens of thousands per day we were getting. (right up until the move)
I have noticed that Googlebot comes in for only one page since the move whereas normally she would be scouring through hundreds or thousands of pages per day.
