The "Referrers By Search Engine" report shows which search engines have sent visitors to your Web site. This report can be viewed by day, week, month and range. Zoomed views are available for any range over a day. Referrals are counted once per session.
All Date Ranges
All date ranges show the Top Referring Search Engine and the Referring search engine.
Top Referring Search Engine shows the five Referring Search Engines with the greatest number of referrals for the time period being displayed.
Referring Search Engine shows the Referring Search Engine, the Total for Period, the Average for Period and the % of Total. It also shows the overall Total for Period("All Elements"). This table can be trimmed to 10, 25, 50, 100, 250 or 500 entries.
- Referring Search Engine is the search engine of the page that made the referral.
- Total for Period is the total number of times that search engine has made a referral.
- Average for Period is the daily average number of referrals the search engine makes. It is calculated by taking the total number of referrals made by the search engine in the time period and dividing by the total number of days in the period.
- % of Total is the percentage of the total number of referrals that the Referring Search Engine represents. It is calculated by dividing the Total for Period for the specific search engine by the overall Total for Period.
- Overall Total for Period is the total number of referrals counted in the time period. The value in the Average for Period column is the average number of referrals per item. It is calculated by dividing the total referrals in the period by the number of items for the period.
Weekly, Monthly and Ranges over a day
Only reports for a week, month or range of more than a day have zoomed views. The zoomed view shows the Item History graphically and in a table.
The Item History graph shows the daily total referrals from the search engine for each day in the time period.
The Item History table shows the daily total number of referrals for each day in the time period. It also shows the daily average number of referrals, which is calculated by dividing the total number of referrals in the period by the number of days in the period. The total number of referrals is also displayed.
