Referrers
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Cabin captures referrer information when visitors arrive at your website, helping you understand where your traffic is coming from while respecting privacy. However, certain browser privacy features and technical limitations may prevent referrer data from being collected.
Common Reasons for Missing Referrer Data
Direct Navigation: When visitors type your URL directly into their browser's address bar or use a bookmark, no referrer information is available.
Security Downgrade: If a visitor clicks a link from a secure website (HTTPS) to your non-secure website (HTTP), browsers typically strip the referrer information to protect user privacy.
Explicit Blocking: When visitors click links containing the
rel="noreferrer"attribute, browsers intentionally withhold referrer information. If you notice traffic from a specific site but no referrer data, you might consider reaching out to the site owner about removing this attribute (while respecting their privacy choices).Single-page navigation: The referrer is recorded once, on the first page of a visit. Moving between pages of your own site doesn't overwrite where the visitor originally came from.
Cabin only collects the referrer information that browsers willingly provide, and never uses fingerprinting or other invasive methods to work around these privacy mechanisms. Any query string on the referring URL is stripped in the browser before it's sent, so a referrer can't leak search terms or tokens into your analytics.