Brett_Tabke - 12:33 pm on Feb 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

> Would not an ajax solution be totally inaccessible?

I think it would be up to the browser manufacters to issue a patch to the browser to send the referal information with AJAX requests. This may in fact, be a good goose to them to get that done. I don't believe the referring page full url (after the #) is available to the website after the click. I don't think it is in the request anywhere - whether by js or http headers.

> ajax NECESSARILY produce a fragmented URL

The fragmented URL is not sent as a HTTP referer header then. So you can not track what page (query) the click came from.

For comparison:

• We normally do about 100 referrals a day from Google that do not have a referring keyword. (Most often, these are bots, proxy bots, or browsers that specifically mask the query string in the referring url)
  
• In 7 hrs from midnight, we have over 1k already that do not have any referring strings.