- From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@netimages.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 05:15:23 -0800 (PST)
- To: Alejandro Rivero <rivero@sol.unizar.es>
- cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Alejandro Rivero wrote: > Hi again, > > After my experience with the script to capture REFERRER information > (WWW pages pointing to pages on my server), I took a bit more > of time to be able both to capture and serve such "backlinks" > within each html page. It could be a good reason > for browser to implement finally the LINK tag. Perhaps. But my experience (I've been recording and analyzing REFERRER for about a year and a half now) indicates that even a moderately popular page could be swamped with the number of backlinks - it really should have at least one level of indirection -> pointing to another URL with the list of backlinks. > It works fine on our CERN httpd 3.0 server. You can find > the "report" in the same page that before, > > http://dftuz.unizar.es/wwwlab/links.html > > Pointers to the new script appear near the end of the page. A probably more practical (less server loading) solution for those running Apache or NCSA is a log analysis tool such as RefStats (<URL:http://www.netimages.com/~snowhare/utilities/refstats.html>) since no CGI is required on those servers to record the referrer. I believe the CERN server can generate the Combined/Extended format log as well: RefStats can extract the referrer information from that as well. -- Benjamin Franz
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