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> ?source=hackernews In the URL. Is this a thing? Can you analyse the source of traffic to a repo?
by scandox 9y ago
> ?source=hackernews
In the URL. Is this a thing? Can you analyse the source of traffic to a repo?
- thisacctforreal 9y agoA usual method for forums and such is to embed an image with an src hosted on your domain, then analyzing the logs. I used to do this to mark forums as read in a browser game I played, as a player-linked ID was in the URL (sent in the referer) Github solves this particular method by downloading the src and mapping it to camo.githubusercontent.com, so maybe OP didn’t realise that, or GitHub shows the stats somewhere.
- Daviey 9y agoYou can usually see the source of traffic if you are the repo owner: https://github.com/blog/1672-introducing-github-traffic-analytics https://github.com/blog/1672-introducing-github-traffic-anal... I don't know for certain, but I suspect that a URL parameter will show in "Popular content" as a dedicated entry. If so, nice hack.
- j_s 9y agoThis is also a way to bypass the year-long dupe detector/blocker, since it was submitted 9 months earlier.