referrer tracking

This tracks which page an individual user came from to reach the site as well as which page they came from to get to the sign up form. It stores a raw URL, exportable to csv, that we can analyze later.

This is useful because if a user came from the apply page, it means they are probably interested in applying, etc. If they came externally from Google searching for the keywords "job opportunity", we might be able to use that when reaching out to them too.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:58:35PM -0700, Brian Sadler wrote:
> Is this logging the referrer or is it saving the external referrer?  I'm a little confused by this.

Log and save kinda mean the same thing in my mind... but all that function does is save the first referrer it sees (and only the first, this is for the external url that got them into our site, not internal links) to the session cookie so we can refer back to it later.