On Friday, October 15, 2004 5:00 PM [GMT], Paul Richards-Training <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi... > > I have got one site where the total reported referrer requests are > 7,000 less than total monthly page requests, and 70,000 less than the > total reported file requests. > > Internal referrers are filtered out. > > So, I am completely stuck on trying to figure out what is being > reported in the referrer report? > > I know I have posted questions before about defining what the referrer > report does, and I thought it was safe to assume that the number of > referrers should equal the number of recorded page requests, at least > roughly, maybe give our take a 100. But these discrepancies are so > significant, that I am completely stuck! As others have pointed out, pages that are bookmarked, or that users type in, won't have referrers. I see that you're from the BBC, so if you're analyzing a website for a program that displays it's URL, then that might account for some of the discrepancy. Images will almost invariably have referrers, because they are almost always "embedded" in a web page. It's not impossible, but would be a little bit unusual, for people to bookmark single images. If you are seeing significant numbers of images without referrers, it would suggest that they are being requested by browsers that don't send referrer information, or by users that are behind proxy servers that strip proxy information. You should probably do some reports of just those requests that don't have any referrer information. Use REFINCLUDE "" and see if the Browser being used, or the Host report gives any insight into who is generating these referrerless requests. Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
