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Reputation: 1229

Web stats direct entry informatiom

I was testing the Piwik web statistics application. What is supprise to me is that this app can tell if the entry to the certian page is a "direct entry" or entry from some other website.

How does it work? How does the Piwki app obtains this information?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 189

Answers (1)

Melissa Avery-Weir
Melissa Avery-Weir

Reputation: 1357

Ultimately, it looks at the Referer HTTP header.

More specifically, the Javascript tracker sends two parameters: url and urlref. The url is always the current page, and urlref will be the previous page if there was a previous page. urlref might be an external page (hence Piwik's knowledge of search referrers and other sites), or it might be another page on the same site (which I assume Piwik uses for its pathing information).

Upvotes: 1

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