Editorial comment
September traffic was close to the August level. A closer look at the channels, however, gives me no reason to call this a recovery.
What stood out this month?
The total hid a shift between channels
Visits from organic search in Google Analytics fell every month from April through September. In September, this channel lost 45 visits while Direct gained 32.
In Google Analytics, Direct includes visits whose original source Analytics cannot always identify. Its increase hid most of the organic loss in the headline total. I therefore do not read the monthly figure as evidence that traffic had stabilised or begun to recover.
The organic decline was not about one article
The WSL 2 guide recorded the largest single loss, but the decline extended across 36 landing pages. An increase for the CI/CD guide offset part of it.
That spread does not support treating one article as the problem. The September evidence also gives me no reason to make a quick content change.
Data note
Google Analytics has no daily entry for 27 September. I cannot tell whether there were no visits that day or whether the data is incomplete.
Google Search Console data is not available for this period. I therefore cannot say how Google visibility, rankings or clicks changed. Future reports should present Organic Search and Direct traffic separately.
About this article
- Use of artificial intelligence
- AI-generated material is included — This report was generated by AI. Unless I see a major error, I do not edit the text. You are reading the report exactly as the AI presented it to me.