Hello, I'm Alex Monfort (Ofihombre), I come to inform you about a strange anomalous tendency in the analytics from the game "Randy & Manilla", and I'm going to show you with these examples:
As you can see, in the last 3 days before July 10, each day one visit more than the previous one went up since the 30, and as I was seeing it, it has been increasing in an average rate of 1-3 visits in every 1-3 hours. This rate of views growth doesn't seem very natural to me, since the normal thing would be for the visits to be counted in a much more unpredictable way by the people's clicks.
In addition, I didn't even have the consent to pay to promote my project to give such view's numbers (What I only do when I have a good update).
Even these "ghost views" don't even contribute anything to the page, none of them contributed a download, a comment to say the good and bad of the project or some activity on the page, and they don't even make it more relevant to me in the search results (Since the normal thing when a game has more than 10 views a day is that it receives downloads, although also don't having downloads after many visits is also a little frequent with in development games).
But the real reason why these visits look like "ghosts" and that they are only to give a false sense of success step by step, comes from this image below:
Because in the referrers analytics from the same last 3 days, It hasn't detected a single percentage of referring pages to know where all those visits originated. Which makes them much more questionable and makes them seem much more artificial.
I had to temporarily restrict game access to stop this strange view count.
And just when I made the page public again and that the problem seemed to be solved,I got another 3 out of nowhere, and it seems that it will continue with the same trend of 1-3 views in every 1-3 hours until has more than the previous day.
Can someone explain why this type of case occurs?
