Identifying the top-referring websites
Our web access logs continue to give us great information about our website and the users visiting the site. Understanding where our users are coming from provides insight into potential sales leads and/or which marketing activities might be working better over others. For this information, we look for the referer_domain field value within the log data.
In this recipe, we will write a Splunk search to find the top-referring websites.
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time – Getting Data In. You should be familiar with the Splunk search bar and the time range picker.
How to do it…
Follow the given steps to ...
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