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	1044	266	4	9/19/2018	5/28/2023
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30 www.google.com	821	376	19	9/19/2018	5/28/2023
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12 blog.yintercept.com	584	293	117	10/12/2018	5/29/2023
	home (hits 31) / (hits 57) /2003/03/intelligent-inquiry-educational.html (hits 8) /2003/04/i-crashed-utah-information-technology.html (hits 2) /2003/05/ (hits 1) /2003/10/i-crashed-utah-java-user-group.html (hits 1) /2004/07/ (hits 1) /2004/10/ (hits 1) /2005/09/ (hits 2) /2006/09/911-post.html (hits 1) /2006/12/all-about-mormonism.html (hits 1) /2007/03/curly-cup-gumweed.html (hits 1) /2007/04/red-butte-canyon.html (hits 2) /2007/08/buckhorn-wash.html (hits 2) /2008/01/ (hits 2) /2008/09 (hits 2) /2008/09 (hits 1) /2008/09/ (hits 4) /2008/09/ (hits 1) /2008/09/open-source-real-time-exchange.html (hits 7) /2008/09/open-source-real-time-exchange.html (hits 8) /2008/09/open-source-real-time-exchange.html (hits 1) /2008/09/open-source-real-time-exchange.html (hits 1) /2008/09/open-source-real-time-exchange.html (hits 1) /2008/09/open-source-real-time-exchange.html (hits 1) /2008/09/open-source-real-time-exchange.html (hits 3) /2008/09/shared-ownership.html (hits 1) /2008/09/submitting-my-entry.html (hits 2) /2008/09/submitting-my-entry.html (hits 6) /2008/09/submitting-my-entry.html (hits 2) /2008/11/appointments.html (hits 1) /2009/02 (hits 2) /2009/02 (hits 4) /2009/02 (hits 4) /2009/02/ (hits 1) /2009/02/ (hits 7) /2009/02/ (hits 4) /2009/02/tag-line.html (hits 11) /2009/02/tag-line.html (hits 9) /2009/02/tag-line.html (hits 2) /2009/08/big-insurers-in-health-care.html (hits 1) /2009/08/introducing-healthcare-advocate.html (hits 3) /2009/08/limitation-of-new-enrollment.html (hits 1) /2009/10/nature-of-fraud.html (hits 1) /2009/11/ (hits 2) /2009/11/is-health-care-natural-monopoly.html (hits 1) /2009/11/on-intellectual-honesty-in-health-care.html (hits 1) /2011/03/ (hits 1) /2012/01/ (hits 1) /2012/04/self-rule.html (hits 1) /2012/09/ (hits 1) /2013/03/zion-curtains.html (hits 4) /2014/02/mormon-dialectics.html (hits 1) /2015/05/its-not-supposed-to-make-sense.html (hits 1) /2015/11/subdomain-v-subdirectories.html (hits 1) /2016/ (hits 1) /2017/12/why-i-stopped-blogging-btw-tax-reform.html (hits 16) /2018/05/i-am-interested-in-seeing-how-one-can.html (hits 2) /2019/04/deuteronomy-on-death-of-joseph-smith.html (hits 1) /2020/06/the-two-sides-of-coin.html (hits 1) /2021/07/holding-conversation-over-different.html (hits 4) /index.html (hits 4)
188 www.bing.com	542	251	3	12/21/2018	5/26/2023
	home (hits 55) / (hits 1) /search (hits 45)
36 www.newspapergrl.com	437	5	3	9/21/2018	5/28/2023
	home (hits 434) /paypal-horror-stories (hits 2) /wp-includes/css/dist/block-library/style.min.css (hits 1)
269 google.com	231	138	3	10/31/2018	4/23/2023
	home (hits 4) / (hits 8) /search (hits 1) /search (hits 1) /search (hits 1) /search (hits 1) /search (hits 101)
370 www.yintercept.com	82	23	2	10/29/2018	3/9/2023
	home (hits 10) / (hits 2)
178 descmath.com	32	23	8	10/4/2018	9/17/2020
57 m.baidu.com	23	17	6	10/28/2018	10/23/2022
	/ (hits 4) /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)
6 gjct.com	21	21	1	1/2/2023	5/19/2023
1 yintercept.com	18	11	3	9/18/2020	3/28/2023
	home (hits 6)
8 plusroot.com	18	13	3	11/29/2018	5/13/2023
	home (hits 5) / (hits 1)
274 www.webwiki.com	6	1	2	11/9/2019	7/14/2022
	/yintercept.com (hits 3)
200 www.unausa.org	4	2	2	9/26/2018	10/10/2018
2 communitycolor.blogspot.com	2	2	1	6/4/2019	5/8/2020
	/ (hits 2)
11 missoula.ws	2	2	2	7/22/2020	7/22/2020
	/dir/events (hits 1)
7 pcut.net	1	1	1	12/27/2021	12/27/2021
56 www.google.co.in	1	1	1	5/13/2019	5/13/2019
1203 bit.ly	1	1	1	9/17/2020	9/17/2020
Total	3870	1447

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.