Why Does My Analytics Say Most of My Traffic Is "Direct"?
"Direct" is not a traffic source - it's the absence of one. Behind that unexplained bar usually hides your best word of mouth.
Insights, tips, and strategies to help you optimize your marketing performance and make data-driven decisions.
"Direct" is not a traffic source - it's the absence of one. Behind that unexplained bar usually hides your best word of mouth.
Clients don't want a data lecture. They want a simple story that ties creative work to real visitor behavior and one source of truth both sides can look at.
Five questions that turn agency meetings from defending screenshots into making decisions — answered from one shared view of what visitors actually did.
Views are not customers. The right question is which campaign brought visitors who behaved like future buyers and kept doing it over time.
Customers rarely arrive in a straight line. First source, assisted sources, and last source tell three different stories - your website is where they meet.
Reports full of impressions and clicks rarely answer the only question that matters: should I do more of this next week?v