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What does it mean when a new user doesn't have a referer?

I can't believe a quarter of my new users have disabled referer sending.

Junior Member

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I'm getting alot of null referers in my logs. Do that many people really disable referer sending?

Junior Member

joined:Feb 21, 2004
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Is it a crazy idea that someone could type in your URL, or go back to it a day later?

Junior Member

joined:Jan 10, 2004
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Well, I suppose so. :)

New User

joined:Jan 15, 2004
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I get many null referers too. I have allows thought it was odd.

Junior Member

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I guess I'd like to know what assumptions about null referers the high traffic sites make. So one is manually typed in URLs. Another is bookmarked URLs. Another is referer disabling in the browser. Does that about cover it?

keyplyr

8:46 am on Feb 24, 2004 (gmt 0)

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and bots

phaze

10:27 am on Feb 24, 2004 (gmt 0)

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sure, but bots don't have cookies, and all these have a valid session (using cookies) that have requested at least 2 pages from us. i.e. no bots unless they support cookies.