: Universal Analytics and no Referral Exclusion List With new Universal Analytics, every new referral value triggers a new session: How excluding referral traffic affects your data By

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With new Universal Analytics, every new referral value triggers a new session:


How excluding referral traffic affects your data

By default, a referral automatically triggers a new session. When you
exclude a referral source, traffic that arrives to your site from the
excluded domain doesn’t trigger a new session. If you want traffic
arriving from a specific site to trigger a new session, don't include
that domain in this table.

Source: support.google.com/analytics/answer/2795830

And then, there is this Referral Exclusion List to make some referrals not trigger it:



Navigate to a property. If you're not in the settings screen, click Admin.
Click Tracking Info then Referral Exclusion List.
Enter the Domain.
Click Apply to save.



However, I'm not able to find Referral Exclusion List in my Tracking Info. :( Here's a screenshot:



What can be done about it? This effectively prevents me from tracking source of my conversions (payment is handled at external site).

(I even tried manually substituting TrackingCode/ to ReferralExclusionList/ in Admin dashboard URL, with no success.)

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