1. Edit Configuration
2. Configure Reports...
3. Top Referring URLs Report...
4. Chart Top Referring URLs

If you prefer to manually edit your configuration files, use the following syntax for this option:

referrers on
referrers nopie
referrers off

This option is only useful if your server logs contain referrer information, or if you have a separate referrer log. See the server notes section for information on configuring popular web servers to log this information in the best possible way. If you have a separate referrer log, use the -r command line option and the -l filename command line option when starting wusage. This produces a special summary report in a subdirectory called referrers (note the spelling) in the report directory. It is best to configure your server to log the information in the main log file so it can be included in regular reports. If your log does not contain referrer data, this report will not contain useful information!

If present, the Chart Top Referring URLs ^(referrers) option indicates that wusage should output information about the "referring" URLs that linked to pages on your server. the server. Note that browsers do not always report the referring URL. If the Chart Top Referring URLs ^(referrers) option is absent, or set to off, a referrers report will not be generated. If it is set to nopie, the report is generated, but a pie chart is not drawn. This option is useful to determine what outside sites contain references to your site. You may receive unexpected results if your logs do not contain referrer information.

You will probably want to use the Ignored Referring URLs ^{(ignorereferrers)} option to ignore referring URLs that are within your own site. This ensures that outside links stand out in the referrers report.

The Chart Top Referring URLs ^(referrers) report keeps a separate count for each outside URL that links to your site. If you would prefer that all links from the same external site be counted together as a group, try the Chart Top Referring Sites ^{(referringsites)} report.

If you would like a more exhaustive report which presents a list of referring URLs for every document on the web server, consider the Chart Top Referring URLs by Document ^{(referrersbydocument)} report.

See also How Many Referring URLs? ^{(topreferrers)}, Chart Top Referring Sites ^{(referringsites)}, Ignored Referring URLs ^{(ignorereferrers)}, Top Referring URLs Report: Alphabetize Report ^{(referrersalpha)}, Top Referring URLs Report: Show Bytes ^{(referrersbytes)}, and Include Referring URLs Report ^{(referrersemail)}.

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