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No, it is any inbound link to a page unlikely to be typed manually "blah.com/articles/random/crap/article-title-goes-here/35487623", that has no referrer header
by papsosouid 14y ago
No, it is any inbound link to a page unlikely to be typed manually "blah.com/articles/random/crap/article-title-goes-here/35487623", that has no referrer header at all. Traffic coming from other websites will still have referrer headers, just traffic from email, IM, etc don't.
- kzahel 14y agoI believe any referral traffic from an https:// https:// site will NOT send the referrer header. It does not seem like the article is taking that into account.
- papsosouid 14y agoHe did mention that, but of course there's no way to figure out how much of that traffic is from https referrals. Of course, I wouldn't be shocked if 90%+ of https referrals are from gmail, which would put it right back to what he is assuming: email, IM, etc.
- Tipzntrix 14y agoYou make a pretty good point, but not just gmail. Pretty much all -mail providers use https when users access their web interface.