Patent ID: 8843619

Claim:
A system for monitoring visits to a target site on a network, the system comprising a server including: a processor; a communication subsystem for transmitting and receiving signals with the network; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having stored thereon processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: in response to received signals indicating a request to access the target site, retrieve a list of one or more origin sites from the memory; transmit the list of one or more origin sites to be included in embedded instructions for rendering the target site by a client device; and receive signals representing a data set including a list of any entries in the list of one or more origin sites that have been visited; wherein the embedded instructions direct the client device to: render as a hyperlink each entry in the list of one or more on in sites; and based on the rendering of the respective hyperlink, determine whether the respective origin site has been visited.