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How might Lemmy appear on an analytics page?

I am asking for someone to see how many people from various online forums visit their website via redirects. In their analytics application, they do not see anything from Lemmy, so I am wondering if there might be another name Lemmy may go by that it could appear as on the list/page? Or has just no one visited their site from Lemmy?

vk6flab ,
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Make a post, insert a link to a webserver you have log access to, click the link, look at the log, report back.

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

You probably don’t even need to post it if you do it in a browser. Start replying to a comment and put in a link, hit the preview button, click link.

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the referrer (Referer) information is just the URL, and most browsers would only send the hostname if it’s a link to an external site.

So the analytics software would only have access to the domain like “lemmy.world”. It wouldn’t be cohesive, as in unless the analytics provider had done a lot of work to support lemmy, it’s not going to group all the different lemmy sites into one category. You’ll see Beehaw.org and Lemmy.world as separate entries.

My guess is no one has visited from Lemmy. People don’t tend to share links to company websites on Lemmy.

dbx12 ,

Depends. Could be links on Lemmy have the rel=“noreferrer” attribute set. (Can’t check, im online from mobile)

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

It’s not set.

rel=“noopener nofollow”

Kelly ,

But I guess each app would also have their own implementation.

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Yes, referer is from the UI so different frontends and apps would control it themselves.

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