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I logged in to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster tools this weekend for the first time in a decade because I wanted to figure out where some weird traffi
by rcarmo 2y ago
I logged in to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster tools this weekend for the first time in a decade because I wanted to figure out where some weird traffic peaks came from.
Since I front a static site on Azure Storage through Cloudflare I have very little useful analytics (I get 1 request hitting storage for each 1000, thanks to judicious caching settings), and all my referrer data is fake - just spam for Russian and Chinese sites, so yeah, web analytics is pretty much dead.
I’ve started adding UTM tags to my own outbound links just so that other people can find who is linking to them, but it all feels kludgy and broken.
- XCSme 2y agoIf you check the demo on uxwizz.com, the attribution still seems to work okish, most users have the referrer set, or have some "ref?" query param.
- openplatypus 2y agoThe "referrer" indeed of little value these days. Customers of our web analytics platform rely on either UTM_ or custom tracking parameters. These work well and folks are happy and claim they can finally see representative data.