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- liquid
Question, I have been analyzing log files for a client and they get a lot of no referrer. I am assuming people are just entering in the domain name directly.
Here are a few questions:
If the link was clicked in an email from outlook or eudora, etc, would it show a refer?If you are on one site like newstoday.com and then I typed in microsoft.com without clicking anything would microsoft.com show a refer through nt?
They just recently got a large spike with no refer.
- Nairn0
'But when creationists misrepresent Schweitzer’s data, she takes it personally: she describes herself as “a complete and total Christian.” '
Does each and every scientific note in America really need to get hijacked by the religionists?
What does it say about a society where a researcher feels compelled to state the intent of her beliefs to protect the sanctity of her work?
- Nairn0
shit.
- pavlovs_dog0
no reefer
- Nairn0
no good reefer, hence still up :(
- liquid0
wtf? has it gotten that bad on here that you can't ask a question without getting the sarcasm first and then begging for the answer
- mrdobolina0
it was obviously a mistake.
- liquid0
I hope...otherwise I have lost hope.....
- ribit0
summary from that thread:
* Some browsers won't send a referral string:
-- An unsupported or optional feature. Many browsers have options to turn off referral string generation as a security precaution.
-- When "open this link in a new window" is selected in the browser.
-- if security settings are high.
-- if using a proxy server or other filtering agent.
-- if it is a secure page. Some browsers won't send an external referral string as a security precaution.* Most browsers won't send a referrer when:
-- a bookmark is selected,
-- the url is typed into the address bar,
-- some other program launches the url (such as email or news).
-- if the user has your page set as their homepage
-- from some local file based link (viewing a disk based html file).
-- from page links dragged to the address bar on browsers that support it.* Some browsers will generate false referrers when:
-- they are located on an isp with a proxy cache. This could mean people from that isp are being vastly under counted.
-- if they are on a isp that has a proxy cacher and that proxy cacher is set to rerequest pages with unique referrers. The rest of the pages that have identicle referrers to the previous cached document, will come out of the isp cache. They could view 50 pages and you only show 10 in your logs with unique referrers.
-- browser caching. Some browsers will repeatidly send the initial external referrer to every page it visits on a site.
-- cache validation. Some browsers send a referrer with "If modified since" requests or even simple "head" checks.
-- reloads. If the page is reloaded, referrer may be that very page or the original referrer to that page.
-- javascript navigation plays havoc with referrers. Most js nav systems leave no referrer (unless checked from js).* Dynamic Content
-- Many sites are mixes of dynamic and static content. Most dynamic documents are not cacheable (cgi based urls). Thus, they can skew referral data dramatically.* favicon.ico
-- No longer valid to use for detecting bookmarking of your site. Mozilla, Netscape, and Opera can request the file at every visit to every page depending on settings. That completely skews the data now.