natalialis at gmail
Jul 17, 2008, 12:08 PM
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Re: Referrer report - what it shows exactly and whyitlists only foreign sites
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Thanks again,
BTW, the IT department is setting Google analytics and it shows that about
7% of the traffic is coming from referring sites - though Google analytics
probably only shows referrals to our pages, not to all files. However, I see
that many top referrers are the same that are listed in the Referrer report
so it starts making sense. I will look at the logfiles though.
Natalia
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Aengus <analog07 [at] eircom> wrote:
> Natalia Lis <natalialis [at] gmail> wrote:
> >> "People don't usually bookmark graphs, they bookmark the pages that
> >> the graphs are embedded in. The request for the page itself won't
> >> have a referrer, but the request for the image will have the page
> >> itself listed as the referrer."
> >>
> >> But this referrer would be our own site, right?
>
> Not if the page that is bookmarked is the page at some other site that has
> your graphs embedded in it.
>
> >> And there is a way to
> >> exclude one own's sites from being listed in the referrer report? If
> >> this is the case, and I assume that it is because I don't see any of
> >> our sites in the report, then wouldn't the result make sense?
>
> You can use REFREPEXCLUDE to exclude matching referrers from the Referrer
> and Referring Site Reports.
>
> (Note that REFREPEXCLUDE only excludes entries from the Referrer Reports.
> REFEXCLUDE will exclude the logfile entries that have matching referrers
> from the whole analysis process. So
> REFREPEXCLUDE *.oursite.com/*
> will just keep the "internal" referrers out of the Referrer Reports.
> REFEXCLUDE *.oursite.com/*
> will keep any log entries that have "internal" referrers out of your report
> altogether).
>
>
> >> "On the other hand, if you want to be able to tell how much of your
> >> traffic is due to the graphs, and how much is people actually
> >> visiting your site directly, excluding the graphs may be useful."
> >>
> >> That's what I would like to do. Is there a way to set the report so
> >> that it only counts referrals to certain pages (so as to be sure
> >> that no graphs are included)?
>
> If you use
> REFINCLUDE *.oursite.com/Jul/16/report008.html
>
> (for example) then Analog will ignore all log entries that don't have that
> referrer.
>
> >> (I'm sorry if it's a basic question, I
> >> don't set the reports, I just interpret the results, if I want
> >> changes I will have to speak to IT).
>
> I would strongly recommend getting a copy of even a single logfile on your
> own computer, and installing Analog and running your own copy of Analog
> against that sample log file. It's a lot easier to understand the nuances of
> what each report does when you can very quickly make a small modification to
> the configuration and then run a new report to see what the differences are.
> Analog can easily crunch through a million lines of log files in under a
> minute, so you can very quickly see the difference as you change
> configuration options.
>
> Aengus
>
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