Comments for No Referrer! How Did That Happen? at http://lyrishq.lyris.com , comment 0 to 4 out of 4 comments http://lyrishq.lyris.com Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:16:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lyrishq.lyris.com/index.php/Web-Analytics/No-Referrer-How-Did-That-Happen.html#pc_70 You're missing another big source of "no referrer" page loads: Flash & JavaScript links. If your site (or your referrers) use Flash, or uses any javascript document.location links, test your links and see for yourself, Internet Explorer doesn't handle all of those the same as a regular href link and in my experience those account for far more traffic on my site than browser homepages or bookmarks - Ryan Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:11:09 +0100 http://lyrishq.lyris.com/index.php/Web-Analytics/No-Referrer-How-Did-That-Happen.html#pc_58 You might want to add 'Proxies' to the list. A lot of traffic we see as no-referrer comes from CDNs like Akamai. 50% is about average as far as I can find out. - Mike Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:51:43 +0100 http://lyrishq.lyris.com/index.php/Web-Analytics/No-Referrer-How-Did-That-Happen.html#pc_50 Hi Kathy, One might have to contextualize that number. Let's say we look at your 40%. If you have any offline marketing going on (print ads, tv, radio, etc...) trying to drive traffic to the site then 40% might be a good thing, that is if previous to said offline pushes were significantly lower. Now if there aren't any offline initiatives and your site traffic is a little low in general, I might suspect that some of that no referrer traffic might be internal traffic (your own developers hitting the site, your IT team, or maybe even you!). I would look into excluding any internal traffic then take another look at that no referrer number. - Andres Galdames Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:15:17 +0100 http://lyrishq.lyris.com/index.php/Web-Analytics/No-Referrer-How-Did-That-Happen.html#pc_48 Good article. I wonder what "no referrer" rates other readers experience of their sites? It runs as high as 40 % on some of our sites which seems very high to me. - Kathy Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:28:06 +0100