Trim referrer trailing slash

[zepfietje]

Just a tiny little something I noticed: it seems that a trailing slash is added to all referrer urls (if it's the root domain).
So for example google.com/.

Is there any reason behind this? Otherwise it would be cleaner if the trailing slash was just removed (google.com).

[Kugelschieber]

We parse and streamline the URLs because there are sometimes tiny differences that would mess up the statistics. Like googe.com vs google.com/ for example. We decided to always add the trailing slash in URLs.

[zepfietje]

Alright, leaving out the trailing slash when showing it to the user would be nicer though in my opinion (this is also what most other analytics services do).

[Kugelschieber]

Hmm yeah probably. I'll think about it, but it would create unnecessary duplicates right now (unless I migrate the data).

[zepfietje]

Ah right, I understand the inconvenience if you need to migrate all data, but might be something to consider.

[Kugelschieber]

Alright, I migrated the trailing slashes for all existing referrers. Thanks for pointing it out! :)

[zepfietje]

Great, looks good!

[zepfietje]

#163

[Kugelschieber]

Also live.

[zepfietje]

As far as I see past data will not be migrated?

[Kugelschieber]

Yes, we didn't migrate everything.

[zepfietje]

Alright, will have to wait for some more days of data collection then. 😉