Stats Reloaded » visiting http://www.statsreloaded.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:18:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Do “site statistics” tell a website owner the URL of the page I was viewing prior to visiting their site? http://www.statsreloaded.com/do-site-statistics-tell-a-website-owner-the-url-of-the-page-i-was-viewing-prior-to-visiting-their-site/ http://www.statsreloaded.com/do-site-statistics-tell-a-website-owner-the-url-of-the-page-i-was-viewing-prior-to-visiting-their-site/#comments Sat, 29 May 2010 22:28:50 +0000 Admin http://www.statsreloaded.com/do-site-statistics-tell-a-website-owner-the-url-of-the-page-i-was-viewing-prior-to-visiting-their-site/ Question by Queuejares Tiyuvy: Do “site statistics” tell a website owner the URL of the page I was viewing prior to visiting their site?
Here’s my concern: I visit the blog of a person, let’s say its a casual acquaintance. He’ll probably guess that it’s me from my IP address since he know the company where I work and doesn’t know anyone else at this company. However, would he be able to figure out that I had been looking at some kinky webpage just before typing in his URL?

I don’t mind if my friend knows that I look I look at his blog, but I don’t want him to know that I also look at foot-fetish sites (or whatever).

Best answer:

Answer by mti2935
if you clicked a link from the previous site to get to his site, then it may be possible for him to pick up the site that you were at previously if he is using a tracker (this can be picked up through javascript using the document.referrer property).

But, if you didn’t click through a link to get to his site – i.e. you were simply at the previous site, then you typed the address of his site in the address bar – then you have nothing to worry about. In this case the address of the previous site cannot be picked up by any kind of tracker that he might be using.

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