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:
- Have you seen an increase in your overall site traffic
corresponding to our increase in referrals?
- Have you seen a similar increase in exits from your site to
our site?
- Does your site have any new links to our site that went live
on 1 Sep 2010?
- Do you know of any reason we would see an increase in
referral traffic from your site?
- 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.