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Referers
This feature allows to record all the referers for site visitors. A trace log with all referers is available, and this can be useful to identify traffic sources for the web site.
For any referer item in the list the following fields are available:
| Name | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Visited URL | Text | Absolute URL visited by users (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/trackme.html). |
| Referer URL | Text | Absolute URL of the referer site where the user comes from (e.g. http://www.myfriend.com/linktome.html). |
| Domain | Text | This field reports just the domain part for the referer site URL (e.g. www.myfriend.com). |
| Hits | Integer | Number of times the referer URL was detected for the visited URL in site’s visits. |
| Last Visit | Datetime | This field reports the timestamp for the last time which referer URL was detected for the visited URL in site’s visits. This is useful to check active referer URLs. |
About the available buttons:
Purge button will delete all entries.
Delete button will delete only selected entries.
Reset stats will just reset all statistics (hits and last visit).
Beware that this feature must be activated with a corresponding option in the plugin settings. See paragraph “ Plugin settings” for more details.
Errors
With this function it is possible to record all errors that the site receives. This provide a kind of trace log for error requests, and can be useful to identify dead backlinks that need to be redirected elsewhere. Analyzing requests it is also possible to extract other useful information (e.g. to detect if the site is subject to hacker attacks like remote file inclusion or sql injection).
For any error item recorded the following fields are available:
| Name | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Visited URL | Text | Absolute wrong URL called by users (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/an-old-page.html). |
| Error Code | Integer | The error code generated by Joomla for the page (usually 404 – Not Found). |
| Hits | Integer | Number of times the wrong URL was called by users. |
| Last Visit | Datetime | This field reports the timestamp for the last time which wrong url was called by an user. This is useful to check if the problem is solved by a redirection (in this case, the timestamp doesn't change anymore). |
| Last Referer | Text | This field reports the site referer for the last request of the wrong url. This is useful to identify which sites has dead backlinks to your pages. |
About the available buttons:
Purge button will delete all entries.
Delete button will delete only selected entries.
Reset stats will just reset all statistics (hits and last visit).
Beware that this feature must be activated with a corresponding option in the plugin settings. See paragraph “ Plugin settings” for more details.