Page requests and referrers are different. A page request is exactly that: a request for a page. A referrer is is the place from which the user (or the user's computer) heard about your page. If the user followed a link to reach a page, the referrer is the previous page. If a page contains a graphic, the referrer is the graphic. If a page contains 9 images, your reports should show 9 referrers, 1 page request, and 10 total requests.
See "http://www.analog.cx/docs/defns.html"; for more info.
Hope that helps,
-- Duke
Paul Richards-Training wrote:
Hi all…
I have recently been trying to explain the difference to colleagues between referrer requests and page requests and have realised that I have not 100% grasped this basic thing myself, though I do have a very good idea.
But my question goes like this…Why is it that when one totals up the number of referrer requests and the total number of page requests that they don’t in-fact match?
Is it because referrer requests can sometimes originate from clicking on an image rather than a text url on the referring page, so the image request counts as a file but not a page?
Surely, the referrer requests and page requests should, in an "ideal world" be equal though? Or am I just not understanding it right?
Very best wishes, Paul Richards
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