: Why does Google Analytics show false referrals? Ever since Google revamped their Analytics interface I've been noticing a weird "bug" while viewing the "Real-Time" overview area. From this area

Ever since Google revamped their Analytics interface I've been noticing a weird "bug" while viewing the "Real-Time" overview area. From this area I can obviously see live stats of visitors to my website but when I visit my website by opening a new tab (Chrome) and manually visit website the real time stats sometimes look like the image linked below.

Is there any reason why Google is saying that I was referred by Stack Overflow when I'm visiting my website from a new tab? Could this be something do to with how I installed the analytics on my site or could this be an issue with browser cookies?

Have anyone else noticed this?

I am mainly concerned about this because in the standard reporting area of my Analytics panel my referral stats are getting thrown off every time I visit my own website.

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The cookie stored for the session has Stackoverflow as the referrer. This cookie will be stored until it expires, subsequently, every time you are on your site, Google Analytics will show Stack Overflow as the referrer.

Try clearing your browser cookies and then in the same browser, open a new windows and directly type the URL to your website in the address bar and then check Google Analytics, you should see that the referrer doesn't show as Stack Overflow on that visit from you.

There is no bug with referral traffic in Google Analytics as far as we're aware / have heard.

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