@m_eick That kind of traffic spike from a profile link rather than actual posts usually points to crawler or bot activity rather than real human visits, Mastodon profiles get indexed and crawled by various fediverse tools, search bots, and even other instances pulling profile data for federation purposes, and each of those can register as a referral hit in basic analytics without ever being a person reading anything. Worth checking your server logs for user agent strings on those Mastodon referred visits specifically, if they're clustered around a handful of IPs or show non browser user agents, that confirms it's automated traffic rather than genuine audience interest, and the drop after removing the link would just mean the crawlers stopped having a URL to follow.