S.R.E.Turner at statslab
Jan 22, 1999, 6:57 AM
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, CommerceCart wrote:
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> Once I compile the reports and view the referrer section, in every case
> (about 45 individual reports) the first referrer is always the owners
> domain. In many cases, with thousands of "#reqs". Then it proceeds to list
> the major search engines, etc., etc.
>
> What do these first #reqs for the domain owner represent? Are they where
> users have manually typed in that domain name to get there? Or, are they a
> combination of that and search engines that do not enable us to track their
> origination? Or what?
>
No, they're not that. The referrer is the page which referred someone to a
particular file. There are two main ways in which this happens. First, when
someone follows a link, it's the page they've come from. Secondly, if there
are graphics on a page, that page is reckoned to be the referrer for those
graphics. Both of these are likely to cause your home page to be your most
common referrer.
If you prefer, you can use the REFREPEXCLUDE command to exclude internal
referrers from the Referrer Report, and so just list the external ones.
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Stephen Turner sret1 [at] cam http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
"Ad infinitum, if not ad nauseam." (Interviewee, BBC Radio 4)
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