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Referring Sites Detail

This is an important report in that it shows the FULL address of sites are referring traffic to your site.  These addresses can be search engines, bookmarks, other sites with links to your site, and many other possibilities.

The item 'Bookmark or direct' means that a visitor either typed in your site in the address field of the browser, or clicked on a bookmark to get to your site, for example, a 'favorite' item.

IMPORTANT: This report lists the referrers for each user the first time they visit your site in a day (a daily unique visitor).  Whereas the 'Search Engines' report lists all referrals from search engines.  This can lead to a lower number of search engine referrals in this report than the 'Search Engine' report.

This site gives the full address of the referring address, including pages, parameters, and other information. For example:

http://www.microsoft.com/somepage.asp?someparam=x