Group popular referrers

[zepfietje]

It would be nice if you'd be able to view and filter stats for e.g. Google as a whole instead of people coming from Google using different domains (google.com, google.nl, google.de).

I know this requires some manual work, but I definitely think it's worth it in the case of e.g. Google (currently it's quite hard to analyze stats when people come from different versions of Google). Take a look at e.g. Fathom and Plausible to see how they handle it. However, I think it could be done similar to how Pirsch already groups referrers from different paths on the same domain.

[Kugelschieber]

We could add some manual "translation" for domain -> name using a list or regex. Like [anything]google.[anything] -> Google.

[zepfietje]

Regex wouldn't be really reliable I think, since there is no guarantee that google.[anything] belongs to Google. So a list would be better I suppose. However, it would be a hassle to add all valid google.* domains to a list on the user's end.

[Kugelschieber]

Right, maybe I could test against the top-level domain instead of the full URL.

[zepfietje]

There seems to be a complete list of Google Search domains (not sure if it's up-to-date): https://www.google.com/supported_domains.

[zepfietje]

By the way, this is the list that Plausible uses to show certain popular sites using a name instead of domain: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/master/priv/ref_inspector/referers.yml.

This list seems to be based on another project: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/master/priv/ref_inspector/ref_inspector.readme.md

[Kugelschieber]

Thanks!

[zepfietje]

Will mark this discussion as answered, since you've opened an issue for it @Kugelschieber. 👌

#215