Hi everybody,
I have an ASP/HTML website with SQL Server Database. Some of my friends websites have got a link to my website, and I was just wondering if there is any way to find out who visited my site....basically what url visited our site and how many times.

To be more clear.....I want something like this....if someone goes to my friends site and clicks my url(which is specified there as a link...using <a href=.....>) then the url address of my friends site should be recorded in my database.....and counter should be 1....and so on.....
just to keep track of the users visiting my website from other sites and the ones directly going to my site.
Any help would be much appreciated....
Thanks for concern.

Hi there,

If you're using ASP, you can use the HTTP_Referer, like this:

Dim previousSite
previousSite = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")

(Note the spelling mistake in referer)

Be aware that the referrer is not very reliable. Many Internet Security / Privacy systems block the referrer, so it looks like people typed in your address directly, while it's quite possible they came from your friend's site.

If you can control the link on the other sites, you can pass a unique identifier, e.g.:

<a href="http://www.YourSite.com/Index.asp?FROM=Friend1">

other sites can then use Friend2, Friend3 and so on.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.