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...wishing for a little more referrers

nonhocapito
Minted
Posted on Sep 07, '07 at 02:04 am

I am liking mint but it is kind of frustrating to see only 18 referrers in the “most recent” tab ( most of them are from images.google.com by the way: shouldn’t that be excluded?)

The “newest unique” and “repeat” tabs are useful, but I want to go back in time and see the referrers as they came to my website. 18 is ridiculously little information.

when I used sitemeter I could at least “study” the latest referrers up to 300. It seems quite odd that now that I am paying for a stat system like mint I can’t browse back the referrers or the pages as much as I like (as much as the database would allow me I mean).

an ajax button reciting “previous 18 referrers” should be there. Or not? actually, same goes with pages, seeds, searches etc…

If I may ask why the limitation and is there a workaround?

Shaun Inman
Mint/Pepper Developer
Posted on Sep 07, '07 at 10:18 am

There are two workarounds. First subscribe to your Newest Unique Referrers feed. Set to refresh at a regular interval your feed reader should catch every referrer. Second, you can increase the number of rows displayed in each pane in the Preferences.

Mint is a fresh look at your site, it is not an archival system.

Sam Brown
Third-Party Pepper Developer
Posted on Sep 07, '07 at 11:17 am

Mint is a fresh look at your site, it is not an archival system.

That should be Mints new tagline.

nonhocapito
Minted
Posted on Sep 07, '07 at 06:46 pm

The problem with the referrer feed is that there is no connection to visitor IPs/crushes. This can be said of the referrers pane too, but there at least it is possible to put the referrers next to the crushes and confront the two in time.

Sometimes you need to know who came from where before or after whom.

And anyway: it is not an archival system I have in mind, but actual control on the span of the “freshness” of the product. I mean, if the data is there, in the database, for say five weeks: why shouldn’t I be able to browse it back?

Maybe if the feed came with ip numbers / hostnames that would be an actual workaround.

Matthew
Minted
Posted on Sep 21, '07 at 06:29 pm

Does that mean that there is no way to remove google.com from the referrers list? I entered a few domain names in preferences to see if that would work but i still see google and yahoo referrals.

As much as I appreciate google and yahoo sending folks to my websites, I would rather know about other, smaller sites that send traffic my way.

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