{"id":21591,"date":"2020-01-28T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T16:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/glosario-digital\/direct-traffic"},"modified":"2025-07-12T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:45:14","slug":"direct-traffic","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.arimetrics.com\/en\/digital-glossary\/direct-traffic","title":{"rendered":"Direct Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Direct<\/p>\n

Definition:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Direct traffic includes traffic from users accessing a website’s URL directly in their browser search bar, or through a bookmark or favorites list.<\/p>\n

It also includes visits from documents not available in the search results or visits resulting from clicks from email messages in email managers such as Outlook, Thunderbird, etc., as well as from Social Network applications.<\/p>\n\n

Direct traffic as a measure of Branding<\/span><\/h2>\n

Direct traffic<\/strong> is directly related to brand awareness. Therefore, an increase in direct traffic is usually related to a greater number of users who access the web directly by typing the URL<\/a> into the browser. However, to achieve a correct measurement of brandign, it will be necessary to debug that source and exclude incorrectly classified traffic.<\/p>\n

<\/span>How to improve direct traffic classification<\/span><\/h2>\n

One of the main problems presented by direct traffic in web analytics<\/a> is that it is a source in which not only the visits of that channel are collected, but others that are not properly classified arrive at it.<\/p>\n

Among the reasons why sessions are classified as direct traffic in Google Analytics we can highlight:<\/p>\n