How can referrers be viewed for all Live Traffic?

  • How can referrers be viewed for all Live Traffic log entries that have them? Setting Live Traffic advanced filter “Referrer contains facebook” finds many entries that don’t have “facebook” anywhere in their Live Traffic entry, and have no “arrived from” field. Thanks!

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  • Hi nicecms,
    Could you please share a screenshot showing these entries?

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter nicecms

    (@nicecms)

    Most visits are from facebook’s ios app, like the first two shown here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DFOX8KMA9C2G2yGd0rR8Jf1AoKFVc2iF

    Perhaps wordfence uses a “FB” parameter in the “Browser” string to correctly identify these as from facebook. If so, that’s very helpful, but it’d helpful to know how the referrer search works.

    BTW, referrer should have 3 r’s in the dropdown menu. ?? Thanks for wordfence!

    Hi @nicecms
    Normally, it should show entries with “referer” header only. Are you sure these three entries showed in the screenshots have different IPs?

    You can also check the server activity log within the same timestamp, perhaps one of these enteries has “referer” header with “facebook” string.

    P.S. The misspelling of the word “referrer” as “referer” has a nice story that can be found here.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter nicecms

    (@nicecms)

    Yes, they have different IP’s.

    Apparently at least the Live Traffic entries with “Browser: Mobile Safari UIWebView” don’t include any “arrived from” info, whereas the website log entries include: “https://m.facebook.com” “Mozilla/5.0. (iPhone;

    > P.S. The misspelling of the word “referrer” as “referer” has a nice story that can be found here.

    :)) I never heard of that before.

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