What does no referring link mean?

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by qwestcommunications, Mar 29, 2006.

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    Why are some traffic coming with no referral link. One would be that the page might have been bookmarked, what other possibilties are there?
     
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  2. yfs1

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    Links from an email would be another
     
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  3. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    Type-ins, someone blocked sensitive data being broadcast by means of AV software, firewall software etc. I think links via redirects lose referer data (not sure though).
     
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    In statcounter, even email referrals are also shown..
    One can say if it is direct access, there wont be any referrer.
     
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    the main ones are

    [1] from bookmarks
    [2] refferal details blocked by firewall
    [3] using a proxy
     
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    Norton blocks referrer headers by default.
    Also there is a Firefox extension.
     
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