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Re: Meaning of No Referer in webstats From David Arehart on 5 Feb '01 replying to Re: Meaning of No Referer in webstats posted by Inachu >I believe they are using Norton Internet Security which disables >everything transmitted by a browser and where they came from(except the ip address) > >I have been using NIS and Zonelabs in tandem and it works great! >This also happens if they click on your hyper link from within their >bookmarks or favorites. > >You can try to force the referer maybe by using the favicon technique. >But this may or may not work depening on how they reach your site. > >Inachu > > >>In the web usage stats which I get for my site, I often encounter a >>"no referer" line in the fields where the refering URL is given. Here >>is an example from yesterdays web usage stats: >> >> 3 33K /palmares/reed.htm >> 2 http://www.wcrpalmares.org/index.htm >> 1 http://www.google.com/search >> 10 143K /palmares/reinhart.htm >> 2 http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/Cycling/Cyclists/Reinhart__Nicole/ >> 2 (no referer) >> 2 http://www.wcrpalmares.org/index.htm >> 2 http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search >> 1 http://www.google.com/search >> 1 http://www.wcrpalmares.org/ >> 3 24K /palmares/rossner.htm >> 1 (no referer) >> 1 http://www.wcrpalmares.org/index.htm >> 1 http://www.wcrpalmares.org/ >> >>As I read this, 3 people called up the reed.htm file, 10 called on the >>reinhart.htm file, and 3 called the rossner.htm file. Five of the 10 >>calls on reinhart.htm came from search engines, 3 of them were from >>within the Palmares web site, and 2 are listed as "no referer". Does >>this mean that those calls resulted from somebody typing in the URL >>(wcrpalmares.org/palmares/reinhart.htm) directly into the URL address >>field in their browser and getting to the page in that fashion? >> >>Jim Perry "Referer" is the website that sent them to you. If they typed your URL directly in the browser or have you bookmarked there will be "no referer".

Re: Meaning of No Referer in webstats - Inachu - 06/02/01

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>>I believe they are using Norton Internet Security which disables >>everything transmitted by a browser and where they came from(except the ip address) >> >>I have been using NIS and Zonelabs in tandem and it works great! >>This also happens if they click on your hyper link from within their >>bookmarks or favorites. >> >>You can try to force the referer maybe by using the favicon technique. >>But this may or may not work depening on how they reach your site. >> >>Inachu >> >> >>>In the web usage stats which I get for my site, I often encounter a >>>"no referer" line in the fields where the refering URL is given. Here >>>is an example from yesterdays web usage stats: >>> >>> 3 33K /palmares/reed.htm >>> 2 http://www.wcrpalmares.org/index.htm >>> 1 http://www.google.com/search >>> 10 143K /palmares/reinhart.htm >>> 2 http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/Cycling/Cyclists/Reinhart__Nicole/ >>> 2 (no referer) >>> 2 http://www.wcrpalmares.org/index.htm >>> 2 http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search >>> 1 http://www.google.com/search >>> 1 http://www.wcrpalmares.org/ >>> 3 24K /palmares/rossner.htm >>> 1 (no referer) >>> 1 http://www.wcrpalmares.org/index.htm >>> 1 http://www.wcrpalmares.org/ >>> >>>As I read this, 3 people called up the reed.htm file, 10 called on the >>>reinhart.htm file, and 3 called the rossner.htm file. Five of the 10 >>>calls on reinhart.htm came from search engines, 3 of them were from >>>within the Palmares web site, and 2 are listed as "no referer". Does >>>this mean that those calls resulted from somebody typing in the URL >>>(wcrpalmares.org/palmares/reinhart.htm) directly into the URL address >>>field in their browser and getting to the page in that fashion? >>> >>>Jim Perry > >"Referer" is the website that sent them to you. If they typed your URL directly in the browser or have you bookmarked there will be "no referer".