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Addfreestats Question

When referrer is your own URL

         

Jane_Doe

7:22 pm on Feb 21, 2006 (gmt 0)

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On my addfreestats, I have a lot of refferrers where the URL isted is a page from my own site.

Is this from bookmarking or type in traffic or? I would have thought this would be bookmarks and type ins, but they are not always showing as repeat visitors.

Would this be type ins and bookmarks with cookies turned off?

Any help on how to interpret this would be appreciated.

fischermx

4:44 pm on Feb 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I've had this question myself since much time ago.
I thought these were :
bookmarks visitors, or
cookies turned off.

larryn

9:48 pm on Feb 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Jane,

In most simple web analytics programs, their is no effort to "connect-the-dots" to rebuild a visit - in these types of programs, the clicking from one page in your site to another is counted just like a click from an outside site.

The net result being that the most referrals come from within your own site - just discount those referrals to see what is really going on.

Blank referrers typically mean either a) someone typed in your site directly; b) your sites visitor has a security option that blocks the transmital of referrer headers from the browser to your server; c) some versions of IE will give a blank referrer when a click opens in a new window. There may be other exceptions.

Welcome to the wonder world of web analytics!

Larry

Jane_Doe

3:00 am on Feb 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

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in these types of programs, the clicking from one page in your site to another is counted just like a click from an outside site.

Actually, these visits are from unique IPs so I don't think it is people just going from one page to the next within my site. If that were the case then the IP would not have changed.

larryn

4:08 am on Feb 23, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Jane,

Except if they are from AOL or a similar service with proxy servers, as the proxy server IP frequently changes from hit to hit.