Privacy when checking stats

How to do it?

[universetoday]

I just set up Analog for stats on my webserver, and I've set it up so I can run a report whenever I like and see how things are. The referrer log shows a whole bunch of sites that have mentioned mine, and I'll click the occasional one to see where I'm being discussed.

The problem is, I'm probably sending the location of my logs as the referrer, so a person checking their logs would see my webserver log information as the referrer. Obviously, this isn't too secure.

I've password protected the directory for the logs, but is there a way I can click on the links to visit referring sites without having my site sent as the referrer. I'm using Firefox. Can I right-click and open the pages in a new window?

[ncw164x]

The only way to stop putting the location of your logs as the referrer into someone elses log file is to right click and copy and paste into a new browser window

I do this all the time for the very same reason

[roitracker]

Opening the link in a new browser window will usually prevent the referrer being passed.

Since you're using Firefox, you can configure it to block the referrer by default:

1. Type "about:config" into address bar, hit go.
2. Find "network.http.sendRefererHeader"
3. Double-click the line & change the value to "0" (zero).

[universetoday]

I feel kind of guilty not giving webmasters my referral information. I'd be blind without it. But, I'd rather that than have someone track my stats page and start digging through it.