Hannu - 9:42 am on Nov 14, 2002 (gmt 0)

vitaplease,

So basically you are saying the 547 referrals from mysite.com are double counts that should be deducted from my uniques, because they came from mysite.com and are counted as extra seperate visits by a confused Webtrends/Vitaplease?

Well, ehh... yes and no ;). From WebTrends support on the issue: "WebTrends will count one referring URL (or no referrer) per visitor session. No more. No less."

Per visitor session is the important part. Users who access the internet with dynamic IP addresses will sometimes get several IP addresses during one session. Each new IP address is counted as a new session (unless you use cookies). So if a user is on mydomain.com/page1.htm and then goes to mydomain.com/page2.htm (using a new IP address) WebTrends will see it as a new session with the referrer mydomain.com/page1.htm.

Check the support note [netiq.com] on the issue.

austtr,
Proxy server filtering of referrals. You can configure (some) proxy servers and firewalls to discard certain information, eg. referring url info from the browser, cookie information etc. I can't find non-tech info on this but try browsing through some of these:

[google.com...]