What is direct traffic? 

There are different types of traffic mediums such as

○ Direct

○ Organic Search

○ Social

○ Email

○ Affiliates

○ Referral

○ Paid Search

In this article, we’ll explain what direct traffic

The direct traffic as website visits that arrived on your site either by typing your website URL into a browser or through browser bookmark. People are following your blog cause they want to detect something new. Or see what new posts have been released. With added awareness and direct traffic, you will obtain more replay guests.

When Google Analytics can’t recognize the traffic source of a visit, it will also be categorized as Direct in your Analytics report.

According  to Google, arriving traffic is ranked as direct traffic when:

Depending on your email marketing tool, traffic from your email marketing campaigns is often categorized as Direct.

Traffic from any offline documents, like PDF, MS Word, etc.

Traffic from mobile social media apps.

Depending on browser issues, sometimes traffic from organic search is also categorized as Direct

For example, a television commercial should show increase in your direct traffic or referral traffic depending on the type of the Web address used. Traffic sources can be easily categorized as direct traffic. Direct traffic is often defined as the user accessing your domain or website directly. Any instance of direct access to your website without any referral parameters mapped as direct Traffic. For instance, the user typed your website address in the browser to directly access your website.

 

Real source of direct traffic's: 

• Saved from Mobile Ads.

• URL-typed in address bar and visits.

• Visits coming from  email campaign.

• Visits from shortened URLs on  various social media like Facebook, Twitter, or other Social Media channels.

• Visits from Mobile Ads. Saved from hyperlinks encoded in JavaScript.

• Visits coming from a connection in an HTTPS page pointing into an HTTP web page. Or in an HTTP page pointing to an HTTPS page.

• Visits approaching from a offline report such as Excel, Word, PDF, etc.

• Visits instituting from direct messengers like Skype, Google Talk, etc.

• Visits out of a Page of your site overlooking the Google Analytics label.

Visits from an alone at a peaceful surrounding or intranet.