Hopefully Simple Referrer Query

[Adam_T]

Hello,

Over time I have analysed quite a few webistes and had one ongoing query regarding in particular one issue which seems to arrive in referrers - In some (if not most) cases, one of the main referrers to the site itself that I am looking at acually happens to be the url of the site iteself. One issue I thought this maybe was .com addresses referring to .co.uk addresses due to an automatic re-direct or something, but at the moment I am looking at a .co.uk website, and the 3rd highest referrer is the address or the website, exactly the same .co.uk address - How is this possible to be the 3rd greatest referrer to exactly the same website? I thought it may be due to page refreshes or possbily a homepage link on the homepage? As far as I am aware there is not any problems with the site definition, it is stated as the .co.uk address :s

Many Thanks!

Adam

[adamas]

When the homepage is the referer, is it the referer to *other* pages within the site? Referers are between pages not between sites.

[Adam_T]

Well, it is a general 'report' apparently showing referrers to the website, from outside sources I assume. I guess this must mean there is some form or re-direct script taking place do you think?

[adamas]

If it is anything like my reports then it is people coming to the site (external referer) then clicking on a link on one of your pages to go to another of your pages (internal referer).

On my first site the homepage is by far the largest referer. To take a contrived example suppose you get 100 referals each from google, yahoo, msn, teoma & yuntis to your homepage. If half of those travel from your homepage to another page on the site (quoting the homepage as the referer) then your homepage has generated 250 referals (more than any individual external referer).

[suydam]

Does anyone know how to filter that out using Web Trends (v6.5)?

I'm trying to get just the referrals that are external...rather than sifting through 1000s of self-referred pages.

[Adam_T]

Thanks adamas, that seems to make sense how :)

It would be a good idea to filter these out though, as internal referrers arn't really that important to me.