referrers on referrers nopie referrers offThis 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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