Referrer Report

This report shows inbound traffic by "referer." The referrer system works as follows: Some browsers report the URL of the last visited page to the next page. PHP places this data in $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']. This is current value from your browser:

The line above should show the last page you visited. (The word "referer" was mispelled on RFC 1945 which set the naming standard; So, we are all forced to repeat the mispelling.)

I consider the referrer to be the single most interesting piece of information available to me. It tells me how well I am interfacing with other Internet sites. I built my hit tracking program around it (see privacy statement).

Linking between sites is so important that I decided to open a section site called Link Development to discuss the importance and art of linking online. (right now the section is just a disqus forum.

Unfortunately, spammy people and virus makers have learned how to spoof this data. Referer reports are often filled with porn sites, spyware and virus sites. I usually don't display referrers online. But, since I am advertising complete transparency, here is my list of recent referrers:

Top Referrals
Domain	Hits	Distinct	Pages	First	Last
58 www.baidu.com	1015	247	4	9/19/2018	12/2/2019
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30 www.google.com	101	58	15	9/19/2018	12/2/2019
	home (hits 8) / (hits 18) /'"` (hits 2)
36 www.newspapergrl.com	83	2	2	9/21/2018	12/5/2019
	home (hits 82) /wp-includes/css/dist/block-library/style.min.css (hits 1)
12 blog.yintercept.com	67	7	11	10/12/2018	10/10/2019
	/ (hits 3) /2017/12/why-i-stopped-blogging-btw-tax-reform.html (hits 16)
178 descmath.com	20	14	6	10/4/2018	10/29/2019
57 m.baidu.com	11	6	5	10/28/2018	11/10/2019
	/ (hits 2) /from=1020761r/bd_page_type=1/ssid=0/uid=0/pu=sz%40320_1001%2Cta%40iphone_2_5.0_19_5.6%2Cusm%403/baiduid=2F1AECCB4816E28C64F70A5E4657F4C1/w=10_10_/t=iphone/l=1/tc (hits 1) /from=1020761r/bd_page_type=1/ssid=0/uid=0/pu=sz%40320_1001%2Cta%40iphone_2_5.0_19_5.6%2Cusm%403/baiduid=2F1AECCB4816E28C64F70A5E4657F4C1/w=10_10_/t=iphone/l=1/tc (hits 1)
188 www.bing.com	11	4	2	12/21/2018	10/16/2019
	home (hits 2)
370 www.yintercept.com	6	4	2	10/29/2018	7/24/2019
200 www.unausa.org	4	2	2	9/26/2018	10/10/2018
8 plusroot.com	2	1	1	11/29/2018	9/27/2019
	home (hits 2)
269 google.com	2	2	2	10/31/2018	11/20/2019
	/ (hits 1)
274 www.webwiki.com	2	1	2	11/9/2019	11/9/2019
	/yintercept.com (hits 1)
2 communitycolor.blogspot.com	1	1	1	6/4/2019	6/4/2019
	/ (hits 1)
56 www.google.co.in	1	1	1	5/13/2019	5/13/2019
Total	1326	350

Again, virus sites and spammers troll the net and inject poisonous links into the HTTP_REFERER variable. I will scrub this report regularly, but the reported links may be traps. I will hold an open discussion about the importance of links on The Art of Link Development.