Idea – Show referrers with excat url (inner pages)

  • Resolved Re673

    (@re673)


    1 year, 7 months ago

    You have this in other plugins. You can add a clickable drop down list for each referrer, to show how many views there are from each page of this referrer.

    For example,

    Reddit – 60

    Reddit/xyz – 20
    reddit/123 – 12
    etc…

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  • Plugin Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    Thanks for the feedback!

    Can you share an example plugin that can do this? I didn’t think this data was possible to get from the browser anymore, but maybe there is a technique I’m not aware of.

    Thread Starter Re673

    (@re673)

    Jetpack for example always had it.

    Plugin Author Ben Sibley

    (@bensibley)

    It looks like Jetpack doesn’t include this info anymore: https://jetpackme.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/jetpack-stats-referrers.png

    Browsers used to report the full referring URL, but a few years ago they all removed this data for security purposes. Now analytics tools like ours can only report on the domain, but not the exact page that referred the visitor. It’s really useful data, so it stinks to not have it anymore.

    The only way we’ve managed to get some of this data back is through the use of Campaigns (available in Pro version). If you are the one placing the link on another site, you can use a campaign link and then it can be tracked individually so you know exactly where the traffic came from.

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