Help re ‘referrer’ search stats shown on Jetpack

  • Resolved rjburgess99

    (@rjburgess99)


    5 years, 3 months ago

    I have a query re the ‘Referrer’ search stats shown in Jetpack.

    It is clear what ‘Search Engines’ is, and the traffic I get daily via this route is relatively steady at 9,000 – 11,000 page views.

    However, under that we have ‘WordPress Android App’. I am not clear what this means.

    When I click down it shows the bulk of views come from ‘https://android-app//com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox/https/www.google.com’ which I am GUESSING is the built-in Google search box on an Android phone.

    However, THESE NUMBERS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE.

    Last Monday I had 679 views from this source. Yesterday I had 4,756. This is not a one-off – it always jumps around like this. This is despite the fact that traffic credited to ‘Search Engines’ remains static.

    Can anyone help me get a handle on what is happening? Thanks.

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  • Plugin Support supernovia

    (@supernovia)

    Would you be willing to reach out to support directly on this? Use
    https://jetpack.com/contact-support/ as we’ll need to know your site url and what not. Thanks!

    Hi, I think I am having the same prob. Did you found out wahat was it? Were you able to fix it?

    Thanks a Lot.

    LD

    Thread Starter rjburgess99

    (@rjburgess99)

    I did, yes.

    On Android phones, Google – unless the user disables it – shows a page of suggested web pages which the phone user might want to visit.

    Google basically looks at the topics the person has searched before, and website they have visited, and produces a list of fresh content that it believes is relevant. It also seems to apply a ‘ranking’ value to your article itself which is why some perform far better than others.

    For weird reasons, WordPress shows this as ‘WordPress Android App’ in your stats. In truth, it is Google recommending your new content to Android users.

    Because it only works on new content, the numbers will spike from day to day.

    Rob

    Thank you very much!

    Luis

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