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TikTok and SnapChat appear as both website and a Social Network referrers in reports #95

Open 9joshua opened 11 months ago

9joshua commented 11 months ago

The visits log and the referrers report show multiple types of referrers for TikTok and SnapChat. I am not sure how Matomo determines that a referrer is either a website or a Social Network for these sites, but it seems their traffic should only be categorised as social...

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Stan-vw commented 11 months ago

Just to check: is the problem only that it's not consistently allocating the same referrer type, or is there also double counting of data?

9joshua commented 11 months ago

@Stan-vw This seems to only be an attribution/allocation issue, no duplications observed.