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Old 08-13-2006, 11:03 AM  
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Referer scripts: Should i track the full URI or just the base website?

I'm asking this because i have been using a referer tracking script i coded myself on my website, The Pink List for quite a while now; but because it logs a unique referer as the full URI (i.e. http://www.site.com/whatever.html), it means that i have been having problems with linkdumps which use scripts to send out their traffic, as my script simply revisits the referer and looks for the title - and in the case of .../whatever/script.cgi, there usually isn't a title.

Basically then, would it be better to only log a unique referer by the base website address (i.e. http://www.site.com) and ignore any pages, as this also prevents one website from occuring multiple times within the referers section; or would this adversely affect the list by affecting websites with subdomains and etcetera?
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