Shadow Traffic: Why Your Traffic Numbers Are Off By 20%
Parse.ly
AUGUST 12, 2020
Dark traffic first popped up in 2012, when it became clear that traffic stripped of its referrer information was categorized as “direct.” The largest causes of shadow traffic on both web and mobile are adblockers and new privacy features built into browsers. Getting the complete picture of your traffic has always been challenging.
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