Consolodation of some domains?

[edent]

Here's my views for this week:

The two reddits are www.reddit.com and reddit.com - I wonder if it makes sense to merge them? A good counter argument is that things like m.reddit.com and old.reddit.com might be useful data.

I don't know why Lobste.rs is split. I suppose something is sending the full URl in the referer header? Again, a good counter argument is that it can be useful to see individual pages.

Finally, Google. Again, I'm 50/50 on this. It's nice to know where visitors are coming from, and it is probably hard to gather all their TLDs under one entry.

Just some food for thought.

[dannyvankooten]

The two reddits are www.reddit.com and reddit.com - I wonder if it makes sense to merge them? A good counter argument is that things like m.reddit.com and old.reddit.com might be useful data.

Whoops. We had a consolidation rule for things like old.reddit.com and out.reddit.com already, but it seems www and m were missing. Personally I think these should all be consolidated into just reddit.com since there isn't that much value in knowing what specific client/interface of Reddit your visitors were using, right?

I don't know why Lobste.rs is split. I suppose something is sending the full URl in the referer header? Again, a good counter argument is that it can be useful to see individual pages.

Exactly. I think there is great value in knowing the specific page someone was coming from, but a lot of sites limit referrer data to just the hostname.

Finally, Google. Again, I'm 50/50 on this. It's nice to know where visitors are coming from, and it is probably hard to gather all their TLDs under one entry.

I'm 50/50 on this one as well. I did a poll on my Mastodon a while ago and it was also a really even split, with a slight majority opting to keep the various country-specific subdomains in there.