Referrers never shows full URL path, only top-level domain

[joshavant]

Version: 1.5.0-rc2

Hi all,

When I view my dashboard, Referrers data never shows a full URL path (e.g. 'github.com/joshavant'), it only shows the top-level domain (e.g. 'github.com').

Here's an example (this is what I see after I click on 'GitHub' in the 'Sources' module):

This occurs for all sources, including Twitter and any other domains.

The only relevant hosting information that I can think to include is that my server is hosted on AWS Lightsail and I'm using AWS API Gateway as an HTTPS proxy to the static IP of the Lightsail instance. The configuration is entirely default.

[lightson]

This could be due to github's ReferrerPolicy.

You could confirm it by clicking on a link to your website from GitHub with dev tools active and check document.referrer in the console.

[joshavant]

@lightson If so, why does the public Plausible demo show this information? https://plausible.io/plausible.io?source=GitHub

[joshavant]

Kinda wonder if @ruslandoga might know what to do here. :)

[ruslandoga]

Sorry, I wouldn't know :(

[joshavant]

No worries @ruslandoga. Maybe @metmarkosaric or @ukutaht might have some insight?

[metmarkosaric]

this is pretty normal these days. you can read more here: https://plausible.io/blog/referrer-policy

[joshavant]

@metmarkosaric Thanks for that info... I guess what's confusing to me is that the official Plausible demo dashboard shows GitHub referral information, and even for traffic using Chrome >85.

Example: https://plausible.io/plausible.io?source=GitHub&browser=Chrome

[nref]

Threw me off today too. It must be the case that the demo is displaying cached or simulated requests.