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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:

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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

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58 www.baidu.com104426649/19/20185/28/2023
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30 www.google.com821376199/19/20185/28/2023
12 blog.yintercept.com58429311710/12/20185/29/2023
188 www.bing.com542251312/21/20185/26/2023
36 www.newspapergrl.com437539/21/20185/28/2023
269 google.com231138310/31/20184/23/2023
370 www.yintercept.com8223210/29/20183/9/2023
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178 descmath.com3223810/4/20189/17/2020
57 m.baidu.com2317610/28/201810/23/2022
6 gjct.com212111/2/20235/19/2023
1 yintercept.com181139/18/20203/28/2023
8 plusroot.com1813311/29/20185/13/2023
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274 www.webwiki.com61211/9/20197/14/2022
200 www.unausa.org4229/26/201810/10/2018
2 communitycolor.blogspot.com2216/4/20195/8/2020
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11 missoula.ws2227/22/20207/22/2020
7 pcut.net11112/27/202112/27/2021
56 www.google.co.in1115/13/20195/13/2019
1203 bit.ly1119/17/20209/17/2020
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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.