Traffic Variations Throughout the Day

Certain time periods have less traffic.

[Eazygoin]

It seems that there are periods when UK Google filters are implemented, whereby traffic drops suddenly for ma few hours, and then the filters are changed, and traffic shoots up for hours at a time.

There is no consistency in this, as it can happen at any time of the day. Allowing for less traffic during the night, it is very noticeable during the day. It is not due to change over of data centres, and so can only be attributed to changing of certain criteria in the DC's at any given time.

Anyone else noticing this?

[r3nz0]

If the fluctiation are no filters then i believe in para-psychologie.

I also see little and huge traffic waves.. How can it be that in this minute 3 visitors visit my site and the next 5 minutes nothing?

Keep thinking up!

[Eazygoin]

Small variations could be the statistics you use playing up, but I am talking of large fluctuations, whereby there is an hour or two with little traffic, followed by hours of huge traffic.

[Tearabite]

I've noticed that my G traffic comes in waves also.. although probably on a smaller scale that what you 'big boys' see.. i'll get dozens per hour for an hour or 2.. then nothing for another hour or 2, then another wave.

[Eazygoin]

Tearabite> Thats a good word - "waves" of traffic. I read that theres a 12 hour penalty of sites that do too much data centre watching of their sites, but have no idea if it's true. [I guess it uses up Google resources too much ], but I hardly watch, maybe 3 times in a day, so that ain't the reason.

I am also aware that traffic can be up at certain times of the day, but allowing for that, there are still waves. Also, the weekends see less traffic, by about 10%, but that may be due to natural reasons such as people being busy doing other things :-)

Overall, however, traffic is increasing, if I look on a weekly/monthly basis. Just interested to know why these waves occur :-)

[r3nz0]

small or huge, multiply my example with 1000 and it is huge :) (in my eyes)

But go a little step furder; do you see the little waves within the bigger waves?

"There are no penalties, there are only more sites that have more links and so this sites are cooler than mine"

Not for long :) back to work

[Eazygoin]

r3nz0 >> You quoted [ from someone else I guess ] "There are no penalties, there are only more sites that have more links and so this sites are cooler than mine"

What was that all about?...maybe the wrong thread ;-)

Yes, you are quite right when you say that small magnified = big.

I often wonder if sites with AdSense, Java, Intro pages with no text, non .com sites, etc., are treated differently. For sure there are variables such as age of site, content quality, good/bad scripting, etc., but they are standard considerations.