Hey guys
I’m buying adult traffic from 2 networks and i see that the reported clicks i get from both of them is not the same
as what i see as new users (or even all users) when I check my GA.
so the questions is:
1)are both of these networks billing me for traffic which is not real?
2)is GA the problematic one?
I use adsbrdige to track the clicks and they just transmit the click count from what the traffic source gives them
any ideas of how to find the solution about it?
Thanks
you always have click loss if you are buying traffic. On pops you can save calculate with 10% clickloss rate on tier2/tier3 geos even more. I always set as default 10% clickloss on the traffic sources to get cost save tracked. Depends on not delivered ads (adblock) and bots that redirect so fast that they didnt fire your GA pixel.
Next thing could be to long loading times for your site, that they close it before fully loaded (ga is async so only after full page load fired). check your page speed with https://tools.pingdom.com/ and optimize page speed to reduce click losses.
Also take into account - with adult traffic - use of "privacy" tools is much higher - e.g. VPNs, Proxies, and Ad Blockers. Something like GA would could be blocked by users adblockers.
yeah, that makes sense. but what can be an alternate way of checking if the traffic i buy is correect to the actual traffic i'm getting?
Loading time of 5 seconds on a landing page is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too slow. If you're advertising to a country with fast internet, hat's probably the cause of your click loss.
Google found 53% of mobile users abandon a page that takes over 3s to load.
I'd normally try to get landers loading under 1s, ideally under 500ms, in Tier 1 countries.
If you're targeting a country with much slower loading times this may be different, but I'd still try to speed that page up.
5 seconds is very very long especially if large % is mobile
other way to check - doesnt
update: lol caurmen - we must have been typing same reply at same time.
well, depends how u test it.
with 'thinkwithgoogle' it's 5, with pingdomit was 1 sec...
so not sure...yeah it's mobile and it's UK. so it may be the analytics discrepncy as well...but fuck - 50%?!
adsbdrige do tell the clicks but i think it's in sync with the traffic source...i do get clicks...but i suspect it's alot of bots
i'm also not an affiliate, it's my own offer and it's direct linking to my offer.
i'm curious about the bot trap, can you refer me to a link that explains how to use it?
Google analytics show pretty much the biggest loss of all the tracking solutions or traffic counters, it's always been that way.
Trackers like
Part of the loss are bots indeed, hard to say how large though.
But there is more to it, GA takes relatively long time to record a visit, definitely more than any standard affiliate tracker. This also depends on where you put the trackers code in your source.
They do not count every single hit either, its more about sessions or unique visitors ... while affiliate trackers work with raw data.
But as other said, the longer loading time might play a role too.
Bot trap thread can be found here: https://stmforum.com/forum/showthrea...Live-Campaigns