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A bit off-topic, but it's not the "nofollow" that leaves you with no referrer in analytics, it's SSL. HN forces HTTPS and your page is HTTP. The browser never
by bobfunk 12y ago
A bit off-topic, but it's not the "nofollow" that leaves you with no referrer in analytics, it's SSL.
HN forces HTTPS and your page is HTTP. The browser never sends a referrer when you follow a link from an encrypted site to an unencrypted site, so you can loose quite a bit of data in analytics by not using HTTPS since more and more inbound links will be from encrypted traffic.
Add HTTPS to www.machete.io and you'll get better data.
- viggity 12y agoahh.... wow. I knew that google was going to stop sending referrer info on https, but I thought that was some how optional and not the default. Thank you very much for the info, I'll have to go find a cheap cert.