How to identify traffic from social networks?

**virtualmisc** · 10-05-2009, 04:25 PM

How do I know my traffic is from social network?
Is there any way to know if the traffic to my site is from some social network?

**aarlosf** · 10-05-2009, 11:32 PM

You can check the referer field in the headers that the browser sends, and sometimes it might be from facebook.com/...

**Sean Barron** · 10-05-2009, 11:53 PM

You can check website traffic through control panel. For example if you have cPanel on your server then you can check traffic through AW-Stats.

**911** · 10-06-2009, 12:03 AM

AWstats is a great source for tracking stats. Will show you each referrer and how many hits you got from that specific link. I have even seen a referrer from emails and otherwise "locked" sources... so there is definitely a lot of ways you can do it.

Sometimes if you want to track specific links... i.e. individual stats from different campaigns... you can use links like http://yourhost.com/?id=1234 or any variation and log that data in many ways. This is more typically used for affiliate links to credit the respective accounts.

**janiels** · 10-06-2009, 06:02 AM

google analytics is one of the best tools out there to get a hold of your website, you can view different stats such as traffic per month and where it was coming..

**sbglobal123** · 10-06-2009, 06:14 AM

google analytics and awstats....................is good way to track the traffic

**johnch** · 10-07-2009, 04:59 PM

Yah, I agree I use google analytics as well. So far I'm very much happy about it and had been very helpful for me as well.