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Fred Wilson Analyzes his Audience
- lkozma 16y agoI hope someone with more experience will help clarify this: if in Firefox I click "open in new tab" instead of simply clicking the link, will the referring url be preserved, or will it be counted as "direct"? If the referrer is lost in this case, that would explain the larger number of "direct" access.
- mcav 16y agoIn Safari, it still sends the referrer. Not sure about firefox.
- streety 16y agoI've just taken a look at the headers sent when opening a link in a new tab and the referrer is preserved.
- lkozma 16y agoThanks, that settles the question. However, browsing interfaces might still affect the statistics, for example, if someone right-clicks a link and selects "copy link location" than pastes it into address bar, it is clearly a "direct access". That must be rare though.