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Networks, referrers, crawlers

Where a visit came from, in three closed lists: network type, what sent it, and the kind of crawler.

Three closed lists describe where a visit came from: the kind of network its address belongs to, what sent it, and, for a crawler that names itself, what kind of crawler it is. The identifier is what filters and stored data carry; the label is what the panel shows.

01 · Network types

Worked out from the network operator’s name. Hosting matters most: a consumer browser from hosting address space is a scoring signal of its own, and mobile networks are left out of the proxy fleet rule because many subscribers share few addresses there.

IdentifierLabelMeaning
hostingHosting / datacentreCloud, colocation, VPS or CDN address space. People do not browse from servers.
ispConsumer ISPResidential or business broadband.
mobileMobile carrierCellular address space, where many subscribers share few addresses.
vpnVPN / anonymiserA commercial VPN, a private relay or a Tor exit.
eduEducationA university, school or research network.
govGovernmentA public-sector or military network.
unknownUnclassifiedThe operator name matched no known pattern.
02 · Referrer types
IdentifierLabelMeaning
directDirectNo referrer was sent: a bookmark, a typed address, or a client that strips it.
internalSame siteReferred from this site, or from a host configured as internal.
adPaid adCarried an ad-network click id or a paid campaign medium. Checked before search, so a paid search click is never counted as organic.
aiAI assistantReferred from an AI assistant or chat product.
searchSearch engineOrganic: referred from a search engine with no paid click id.
socialSocial networkReferred from a social platform.
linkAnother siteReferred from a site that is none of the above.

Search, social and link referrers take points off a visit’s bot score; see How a visit is scored.

03 · Declared bot categories
IdentifierLabelMeaning
searchSearch crawlerIndexes pages for a search engine.
aiAI crawlerCollects pages for model training or for answering in an assistant.
seoSEO toolA commercial backlink or audit crawler.
socialSocial previewFetches a page to build a link preview.
monitorUptime monitorChecks that the site is answering.
otherOther declared botDeclared itself a bot and fits none of the named categories.

Reference

Loghound is open source and MIT licensed. Questions about the Opensolr half — the account, the indexes, the plan — go to opensolr.com/contact; questions about the software itself belong on GitHub.

Loghound Documentation