Referrer Tracking
Hello,
We are currently doing a beta test run on our new site and have run into an issue tracking referral traffic. The way our system is setup, partners can link to any of our pages and receive credit for traffic they send. Good concept, though we’ve found an issue.
Ok, so here’s where we are at. We are currently using $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] variables to log where the visitor is coming from. Now, here’s what i’ve found, when accessing our site through some partner sites, the code works fine, through others, no HTTP_REFERER is captured (the results are consistant for each partner site). I am using the same browser and receiving two different results, success for some sites and failed (empty) for others, the results are always the same for each site.
I’ve also read that some browsers do no send this data at all.
Ok, so the tracking has turned out to be unreliable. Either I am going to have to double back and make sure all of our partner sites receive in.php tracking links, or someone here has a great solution to this problem. I’m hoping for the ladder.
I have done testing with javascript (document.referrer) and am receiving the same exact results. Is there any way fail-safe way to really capture document referrer’s?
Bid if you have experience with this.
Thanks.
