Significant traffic increase from fedoraproject.org to redhat.com since 1 Sep 2010

[Keith Watkins]

  Referral traffic returned to "normal" levels on 24 Sep 2010.  Did you 
investigate and find anything?  Did you do something to stop the 
referral traffic?  If so, what did you do?  Thank you.


W. Keith Watkins
Omniture Business Analyst
Red Hat, Inc.
919-301-3275
kwatkins at redhat.com


On 09/23/2010 02:15 PM, Keith Watkins wrote:
> Starting on 1 Sep 2010 there was a significant increase in the traffic 
> coming from http://fedoraproject.org to http://www.redhat.com and the 
> traffic remains elevated (see data below, although the data is for the 
> domain-level not the page-level).  Further, this traffic is producing 
> click-throughs to a few specific links on the redhat.com homepage.  
> One last data point, there does not appear to be a pattern to the IP 
> addresses behind this traffic (The IPs are fairly evenly distributed 
> across several subnets).
>
> My questions:
>
>    1. Have you seen an increase in your overall site traffic
>       corresponding to our increase in referrals?
>    2. Have you seen a similar increase in exits from your site to our
>       site?
>    3. Does your site have any new links to our site that went live on
>       1 Sep 2010?
>    4. Do you know of any reason we would see an increase in referral
>       traffic from your site?
>    5. Is this legitimate referral traffic or is something else going on?
>
>
> Thank you and please contact me with additional questions.
>
>
> Instances of fedoraproject.org being a referring domain to the 
> redhat.com domain
>
> Date 	fedoraproject.org
> 08/22/10 	129
> 08/23/10 	188
> 08/24/10 	147
> 08/25/10 	230
> 08/26/10 	200
> 08/27/10 	207
> 08/28/10 	125
> 08/29/10 	141
> 08/30/10 	201
> 08/31/10 	181
> 09/01/10 	7,133
> 09/02/10 	14,303
> 09/03/10 	12,878
> 09/04/10 	11,663
> 09/05/10 	12,894
> 09/06/10 	13,973
> 09/07/10 	13,318
> 09/08/10 	8,755
> 09/09/10 	7,142
> 09/10/10 	8,777
> 09/11/10 	10,927
> 09/12/10 	9,985
> 09/13/10 	10,004
> 09/14/10 	9,283
> 09/15/10 	9,675
> 09/16/10 	11,044
> 09/17/10 	9,097
> 09/18/10 	8,889
> 09/19/10 	10,862
> 09/20/10 	9,017
> 09/21/10 	8,116
> 09/22/10 	7,422
>
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>
>
>
> -- 
> W. Keith Watkins
> Business Analyst
> Red Hat, Inc.
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