liveinternet.ru - fight twist!

I rested from the 1st to the 12th, on arrival I noticed “light” in appearance news in liveinternet.ru statistics. Once it was already mentioned about the hidden possibility of liveinternet.ru to analyze attendance statistics for cheating. Now it is available to everyone in the new menu item "sources" ...

Attention! Next, a little research will be done on the example of the basher.ru project, who has a pathological hostility towards him - read no further. In fact, nothing of the utmost importance will continue.
And for the rest, let's analyze a specific example on the statistics of my project www.liveinternet.ru/stat/basher.ru/index.html

Accordingly, the battlefield will be the new statistics "sources", in our example, it can be found on the page www.liveinternet.ru/stat/basher.ru/sources.html
How is such statistics considered and most importantly, damn it, why can it be useful to us?
In order.
First, how does liveinternet consider the so-called “sources”? Relatively simple =) I did not find any official information on this subject, except for the general principles of calculation in an interview that Max Zotov gave a planlet like. But it can be assumed that this is just a “comparison of audiences” among the liveinternet.ru sites.
Those. Italics on this page indicate those sites from which supposedly (not explicitly, that is, without a referrer) users came. This can be done in 2 ways.
See where the user was before going to our site. Those. Let's say you went to allday.ru, saw my small banner, remembered my project and typed in the address yourself, i.e. without poking on the banner and not writing down the referrer.
Either assess the user affiliation to the project. Those. if you spend 60% of your time on allday.ru and even starting your day on the network not with an alder and with basher.ru, a source is written to me with allday.ru.
I would prefer the second method. This is more interesting and correct in my opinion, as Max realized it is not clear =) Perhaps it was somehow different, or combined. As if there was not, the "sources" clearly indicate implicit transitions. But it is worth noting that they can be considered implicit only among those that cheats liveinternet.ru. For further analysis, we assume that visitors are “assigned” to specific projects.

And now we will think for what it can be useful. Well, of course, the first thing that comes to mind is obturation of cheating. If I drive traffic from any projects that are involved in liveinternet.ru statistics, it can be seen immediately.
And of course you can see where people can go without a refak.
However, liveinternet.ru sources show not only implicit transitions, but also explicit ones. At first, I did not understand this, why duplicate the article from the “transitions from sites”? Then I noticed this thing ... Let's carefully look at the stats of the “ sources ” once again. Note that there are explicit transitions from allday.ru and not explicit ones. Accordingly, not explicit much more. Those. this way you can judge the quality of advertising campaigns. Those. at the moment I see that with allday.ru I have 40 explicit and 3 implicit transitions. Those. 3 people already settled down for sure.
Like everything =)