HACKER Q&A
📣 mjswensen

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


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.?


  👤 Hackbraten Accepted Answer ✓
The script should be able to read `Document.referrer` and post the result to wherever it wants.