Re: Referrer report - what it shows exactly and why it lists only foreign sites

Hello,

The site has dozens of millions requests per day so I think the floor of 20
is good. Also, the graphs that we share are embedded images; they are
displayed on other sites, but are hosted on our websites. Based on what you
wrote, I'm not surprised that the Referrer report only lists referrers for
about 5% of all requests. The site is very busy with graphics and I suppose
that most users have it bookmarked.



The difference between a referrer report and a referring site report is that
the former lists URLs while the latter lists websites? So if a website shows
our graphs on two different pages, the referrer report will show 2 urls,
while the referring site report will show one website address?



"If you want not to count referrers to images, you can use the command

 REQINCLUDE pages"



This is interesting. So it will only count instances when another website
links to us and a person clicks on that link and actually visits our site?



Let's say we have a graph: www.oursite.com/graph and it is embedded on
another website in the following way: <A HREF="http://www.oursite.com"><IMG
SRC="http://www.oursite.com/graph"></a>


If I follow Stephen's recommendation, the report will only count clicks on
the graph, not just requests for an updated image?

Thanks for your help,

Natalia


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Stephen Turner <
[email protected]> wrote:

> In addition to everything Aengus said, have a look in your raw
> logfiles. You will soon understand which lines have referrers on, and
> what those referrers typically look like. Analog just counts those up.
>
> If you want not to count referrers to images, you can use the command
>  REQINCLUDE pages
> This will restrict all the reports to just the lines in your logfile
> corresponding to pages. But having said that, I'm not sure that's the
> right command for you. If other sites are including your images, you
> might actually want to analyse that traffic. Of course, you could do
> one report with and one report without that command.
>
> --
> Stephen Turner
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