Question

I have a Get FlyWheel hosting question. Their support isn't being too helpful so thought I'd ask here if that's okay. I have multiple clients with them but this is the first time I've seen this happen. My client's website went live February 3rd and apparently has had 4500 "unique" visitors. It just got indexed. He is on the "Tiny" Plan and only is allowed 5000 visitors a month. What would cause that many visitors already? There is also 2 days in a row where it show's the same amount of traffic. Thanks!  

Answer 1

Check source in Analytics?  

Comments

A little from Facebook. That's about it. They think it's all coming from Facebook apparently. But my other client with a huge social media presence doesn't show even close to the same amount of traffic.  

Answer 2

A rogue crawler could do it, coming in from multiple proxies. Someone might be starting up a botnet and testing it on a random site. Could be a denial of service attack. Lots of things. If it's coming from Facebook you should search Facebook for the URL and see if someone posted something in a public group. You won't see anything from private groups and timelines.