Traffic drop only affecting google country domains

[omarfk]

Hello,

I have noticed that our our traffic is down by 15% (last 30 days to the 30 days before it) and I dug deeper to figure out whats going on and I am not sure I understand what is happening.

Traffic from google country domains( for example google.com.sa) dropped by 90% on the 18th of September, same applies to other country specific domains.

Now my other stats (visits organic keywords, search queries in WMT) seem to be normal and have seem some decrease (~5%) but nothing as drastic as the traffic drop from the google country domains.

Is this an https thing that is masking the source of the traffic that came into effect on that date? Is the traffic that is now missing from google country domains being reported from other sources?

Can anyone shed some light on what is going on?

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[wissamdandan]

Omar,

Try to utilize In google analytics advanced segment. and create a segment for IOS 7.0

you will see a correlation there ..

[omarfk]

Wisam,

I think that is it! Can you please elaborate...

1- What's different about ios7?

2- Why is it only affecting country specific domains ?

3- Assuming I am not losing the traffic and its just being reported elsewhere, where would I find it being reported now ?

[wissamdandan]

Omar,

1. well the traffic from google.com.sa is landing on the root / ... and one thing that "might" be it is Siri now uses Bing and Google for its searchs.
2. probably is affection all google including .com
3. we trying to segmented using referral vs direct vs bing vs anything and there is no evidence yet that the traffic has been "replaced" by another channel