{"id":14023,"date":"2025-08-22T08:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.help.dailyfy.co\/categories\/youtube-traffic-source-statistics\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:25:12","slug":"youtube-traffic-source-statistics","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/categories\/analytics\/youtube-analysis\/youtube-traffic-source-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube traffic source statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"14023\" class=\"elementor elementor-14023 elementor-13780\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b927578 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b927578\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bfd7145\" data-id=\"bfd7145\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-91e099c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"91e099c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h2>Main Categories of Traffic Sources<\/h2>\n<h3>1. Search and Discovery<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>YT_SEARCH<\/strong>: Views from YouTube search results<\/li>\n<li><strong>RELATED_VIDEO<\/strong>: Views generated by suggested videos<\/li>\n<li><strong>YT_CHANNEL<\/strong>: Views on the channel page<\/li>\n<li><strong>YT_OTHER_PAGE<\/strong>: Other YouTube pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Advertising and Promotion<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ADVERTISING<\/strong>: Views generated by ads\n<ul>\n<li>Types: Click-to-play (interactive advertising format where the ad video only starts playing after an intentional user click), TrueView InStream (advertising format appearing before, during or after the video), In-Feed Video Ads (YouTube search results) etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>PROMOTED<\/strong>: Non-paid promotions (e.g. Spotlight page)<\/li>\n<li><strong>CAMPAIGN_CARD<\/strong>: Views via claimed promotional videos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. YouTube Features<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SUBSCRIBER<\/strong>: Flux d\u2019abonnement et page d\u2019accueil<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>What to Watch<\/strong> is a recommendation feature that suggests videos to users.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>NOTIFICATION:<\/strong> YouTube Emails  Notifications<\/li>\n<li><strong>END_SCREEN<\/strong>: End screen of other videos<\/li>\n<li><strong>PLAYLIST:<\/strong> Views while playlists are playing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. Special Content<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SHORTS:<\/strong> Views via the Shorts scrolling experience<\/li>\n<li><strong>SOUND_PAGE<\/strong>: Shorts Sound Pivot Pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>VIDEO_REMIXES<\/strong>: Remixed Video Links<\/li>\n<li><strong>HASHTAGS<\/strong>: VOD and Shorts hashtag pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>5. External Sources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>EXT_URL<\/strong>: Links from other websites<\/li>\n<li><strong>NO_LINK_EMBEDDED<\/strong>: Embedded videos with no identified link<\/li>\n<li><strong>NO_LINK_OTHER<\/strong>: Direct traffic or via mobile apps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>6. Other sources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ANNOTATION<\/strong>: Clicks from Annotations<\/li>\n<li><strong>LIVE_REDIRECT<\/strong>: Live stream redirects<\/li>\n<li><strong>PRODUCT_PAGE<\/strong>: Product Pages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Optimization Strategies<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Diversify traffic sources<\/li>\n<li>Optimizing YouTube SEO<\/li>\n<li>Use promotion features effectively<\/li>\n<li>Create engaging content for recommendations<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Performance Analysis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Track the proportions of each source<\/li>\n<li>Identify the best performing channels<\/li>\n<li>Adjust the content strategy accordingly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main Categories of Traffic Sources 1. Search and Discovery YT_SEARCH: Views from YouTube search results RELATED_VIDEO: Views generated by suggested videos YT_CHANNEL: Views on the channel page YT_OTHER_PAGE: Other YouTube pages 2. Advertising and Promotion ADVERTISING: Views generated by ads Types: Click-to-play (interactive advertising format where the ad video only starts playing after an intentional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14035,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"doc_badge":[],"class_list":["post-14023","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14024,"href":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14023\/revisions\/14024"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/14035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=14023"},{"taxonomy":"doc_badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.dailyfy.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_badge?post=14023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}