referrers

referrers on
referrers nopie
referrers off
This option is only useful if your server logs contain referrer information as an extra field, optionally in quotes, after the regular common log format fields, or if you have a separate referrer log. See the server notes section for information on configuring popular web servers to log this information in the best possible way. If you have a separate referrer log, use the -r command line option and the -l filename command line option when starting wusage. This produces a special summary report called referrers.html (note the spelling) in the report directory. It is best to configure your server to log the information in the main log file so it can be included in regular reports. If your log does not contain referrer data, this report will not contain useful information!

If present, the referrers option indicates that wusage should output information about the "referring" URLs that linked to pages on your server. the server. Note that browsers do not always report the referring URL. If the referrers option is absent, or set to off, a referrers report will not be generated. If it is set to nopie, the report is generated, but a pie chart is not drawn. This option is useful to determine what outside sites contain references to your site. You may receive unexpected results if your logs do not contain referrer information.

You will probably want to use the ignorereferrers option to ignore referring URLs that are within your own site. This ensures that outside links stand out in the referrers report. If you use the makeconf utility to configure wusage, this will be set up for you.

See also topreferrers and ignorereferrers.


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