I understand how useful the function is, but I think that the cost is too high. I have not checked this yet, but are we doing an insert on the database for every page hit? I think this might not be best for performance and we might disable it on our internal deployment. Nothing like a good log analysis tool that parses Apache log files. :-)
Regards, Elias On 10/26/05, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Allen Gilliland wrote: > > I'm not sure I full understand why we make referers available in the > > first place. What is the value in tracking what the referer url is > > inside of the application? Wouldn't curious site admins just look > > that stuff up from webserver logs? > > Individual bloggers like to know who is linking to them. Even with blog > search sites like Technorati that tell me who is linking to my site, I > still look at my referrers at least once a day. > > - Dave > >
