Ask HN: How does Google Analytics, a client-side script, get referring URLs?

Posted by mjswensen on Monday July 06, 2020 @12:00PM
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Shower thought: given that Google Analytics is installed by dropping a JavaScript snippet onto the page, how does Google get the referring page when visitors land on the page via link or search result, etc.?

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Re:Ask HN: How does Google Analytics, a client-side script, ... by Hackbraten on Monday July 06, 2020 @12:29PM (#23749539)

The script should be able to read `Document.referrer` and post the result to wherever it wants.

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Re:Ask HN: How does Google Analytics, a client-side script, ... by mjswensen on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:38PM (#23751182)

There it is. Thank you!

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