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Re: Site Stats...

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Originally Posted by Yan Wang
Brandon, how is CD able to know that a person is coming from Google? And what they searched for?
Go search something on Google. When you are at the results page, check the URL. The terms you searched for are contained in the URL. When you click a link in the results (to chiefdelphi.com for instance), that URL is sent to our server as the 'referrer'. The stats programs we use (webalizer, analog, etc) know all of the popular search engines, and how their referrer URL is composed, and they can pull that info out of the URL and make neat stats from it.

Hope that explains it enough. Let me know if not ..

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