Wix Analytics: Understanding the Traffic Overview

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Your Traffic Overview displays traffic patterns over time, identifying trends as well as highlighting opportunities for growth. 
Check your site's traffic metrics, like sessions by device, country, new vs. returning visitors and more. In this article, you'll learn about all potential metrics you may see.
You can find the Traffic Overview page in the Overviews section under Analytics in your site's dashboard.
Curious about your site visitors?
screenshot of traffic overview page from accessed from the dashboard.
Note:
Traffic from any visitors who have not accepted the site's cookies (or are using certain types of ad blockers) will not appear in these reports. If you see discrepancies in your site (e.g. someone purchased an item from your store but you can't see the site session) this could be why.

Site sessions and unique visitors

A session is a web visit of a site visitor. A session starts when a visitor reaches your site, and ends after 30 minutes of inactivity. In each session there can be multiple page views and actions performed by a visitor, and each visitor can visit more than once. 
screenshot of the number of site sessions and unique visitors in the last 30 days
A unique visitor is a person who visited your site, unique by device and browser. Therefore, if the same person visits from 2 different devices, they will be counted as 2 different visitors.
The trend shown next to the metric demonstrates how the metric has changed compared to the previous period (equivalent to the selected period). A red trend indicates a decrease in activity, while a green trend indicates an increase in activity.

Sessions over time

This graph allows you to view your site sessions over time. View seasonal trends and pinpoint spikes in traffic to determine the most impactful time to share new content, plan promotions or launch new campaigns. 

Hover over the graph to see the exact number of sessions on each date.
screenshot of graph showing site sessions over time trend.

Sessions and visitors by source and category

Understand where your site visitors are coming from to effectively tailor your content, reach your target audience and take your traffic to new heights. 
See which external sites are driving traffic to your site, as well as the category they belong to. Click the drop-down to filter by source, category, or both.
  • Traffic source: The sites that people are navigating to your site from (e.g. X.com, Medium.com).
  • Traffic category: The category of sites that people are navigating to your site from (e.g. social, email, organic search).
screenshot of traffic by source and the percentage, ranging from google to Instagram

New vs. returning visitors

This chart shows the amount of new visitors, returning visitors, and the total unique visitors to your site. Gauge audience retention and loyalty while developing your knowledge of the site's appeal to new visitors.
screenshot of ring chart showing new vs returning visitors.

Sessions by device

This chart shows the amount of visitors to your site using a desktop, mobile, or tablet. Explore the devices used by visitors to optimize your site layout, enhance accessibility and expand your site reach. 
screenshot of ring chart showing session by device, including mobile and desktop.

Sessions by country

This metric shows you the countries your visitors are located in when they visit your site. Explore the countries with the highest engagement, give your marketing efforts specific focus and customize your content to suit different cultures.

Click on the map to explore sessions by city and (when applicable) by state.
screenshot of sessions by country on world map.

Average sessions by time

Make informed decisions about the best day and time to update your content, post your new blog or add exciting products to your store. 
View a graph of the average number of sessions your site gets per day. Hover over a day to see the exact number. Click the day drop-down to change the metric to average sessions per hour.
screenshot of barchart showing sessions by day over 21 week period.

Traffic insights

Discover a range of information and identify the areas that you can grow your site the most. Insights are takeaways based on your data from the last 30 days. In this section, you can see insights from the most popular page to the page where most of your traffic drops off.

Open the Insights page to see more traffic insights and other types of insights regarding different areas of activity.
screenshot of traffic insight showing decrease in traffic from dallas area as example.
Looking for more data?
  • Click the date picker drop-down at the top of the Traffic Overview to change the time period that data is pulled from (the default is 30 days).
  • Click See full report in a section to see an in-depth report about that activity. Learn more about your traffic reports.

FAQs

Click a question to learn more about the Traffic Overview.

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