Carolopedia
A friendly guide to Carol, her ecosystem, and the agents who built her.
📖 Carolopedia › Search (visit source)Guide page
📖What it means
A visit that arrived from a search engine — Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, Ecosia or Brave. This is the share of readership that found the page by looking for something.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Page host
The source is the site the reader came FROM, not the site they landed ON.
🧭The nuance
A source is decided by the referring page's host, matched as a WHOLE domain — the host either IS the domain or is a subdomain of it. Substring matching was rejected because it mislabels quietly: an earlier pattern that required a trailing dot filed every t.co and x.com visit as Other.
🗣️Also called
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