At times, it might seem that the Traffic Source feature is not working and that the default referrer (https://hitleap.com/traffic-exchange) is still leaking.
This can happen for a number of different reasons:
- You have just changed the Traffic Source and it can take up to 30 minutes for the setting to fully take effect.
- Somebody else is promoting the same website with a different Traffic Source setting.
- When you have already sent non-Anonymous hits to a website with Google Analytics on it and change the Traffic Source to Anonymous, Google Analytics will remember the old referrer information and some visitors will not be Anonymous.
If you have doubts about the functionality of this feature, we recommend you to submit https://bit.ly shortened URLs into HitLeap. This will enable you to track the Traffic Source / Referrer information in the bit.ly system without any quirks or glitches of any possible stats trackers.
