Title: Blank Referer
Last modified: January 21, 2025

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# Blank Referer

 *  Resolved [RockyMtnHi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockymtnhi/)
 * (@rockymtnhi)
 * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-referer/)
 * Most of the referer fields in clicks for the URL [https://wbp.bz/amoc](https://wbp.bz/amoc)
   are blank. It would be _immensely_ helpful if they were actually populated with
   the real referer URLs, or at least the domains. Both would be awesome! This would
   allow us to track the success of our advertising campaigns, but now it is basically
   not helpful to us. Does the paid version provide this? We are using the free 
   version of Pretty Links.
 * I am a developer and know that this can be tricky, and most of the times I have
   needed to get the referer server variable data I needed, I have succeeded in 
   it, so I hope you are amenable to updating the plugin, or letting me know if 
   the paid version has this capability.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fblank-referer%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [nevenag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nevenag/)
 * (@nevenag)
 * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-referer/#post-18255510)
 * Hi [@rockymtnhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockymtnhi/),
 * We appeciate your valuable feedback!
 * No referrer can be from bots, but it can also happen if the link is visited directly,
   or if the page the link was clicked from forbids passing the referrer information.
 * And lastly, if the page the link is on is HTTPS, but it redirects to HTTP AND
   no-referrer-when-downgrade HTTP header is set – then the referrer is lost also.
 * The paid version does not offer any differences in handling blank referrers compared
   to the free version.

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