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> Error: Could not find aspects. Most likely because the server is under heavy load. Please contact support at magicsourceltduk@gmail.com and tell me where you saw the link to this website because I have honestly no idea where all this traffic is coming from. Many thanks!



> I have honestly no idea where all this traffic is coming from.

Aren't there HTTP request headers that tip this off?


The referer header behavior changed for https 7+ years ago. As I recall, it can be crippled by the source site (e.g. inbound google traffic).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21922143/why-isnt-the-th...

Why this is good for anyone other than Google Analytics is beyond my current understanding.


It’s a privacy measure so that third party sites can’t see which page a user is coming from. It’s not necessarily anyone’s business to know the previous URL in a user’s browser history.


> Why this is good for anyone other than Google Analytics is beyond my current understanding.

Better privacy. There have long been extensions to strip out or fake referrer information from requests.




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