Record Visitors Based on Referral Source

With Mouseflow, you can determine whether to record visitors based on the referral source. This requires JavaScript to conditionally include the tracking code and start the recording.

Record Visits from a Single Referral Source

Replace your existing tracking code with something that follows the below format, for example, if you want to only track referrals from http://example.com

<script>
  var mouseflowAutoStart = false;
  var referrerDomain = 'example.com';
 
  if (document.referrer.indexOf(referrerDomain) > -1) { 
    document.cookie = 'mf_record=1;path=/;max-age=' + 60 * 60 * 24;
  }

  if (document.cookie.indexOf('mf_record=1') > -1) {
    mouseflowAutoStart = true;
  }

  window._mfq = window._mfq || [];
  (function() {
    var mf = document.createElement("script");
    mf.type = "text/javascript"; mf.defer = true;
    mf.src = "//cdn.mouseflow.com/projects/<WEBSITE_ID>.js";
    document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(mf);
  })();
</script>

Note: Replace <WEBSITE_ID> with your own website ID from Mouseflow.

Never Record Visits from a Single Referral Source

Replace your existing tracking code with something that follows the below format, for example, if you never want to track referrals from http://example.com

<script>
  var mouseflowAutoStart = false;
  var referrerDomain = 'example.com';
 
  if (document.referrer.indexOf(referrerDomain) === -1) { 
    document.cookie = 'mf_record=1;path=/;max-age=' + 60 * 60 * 24;
  } 

  if (document.cookie.indexOf('mf_record=1') > -1) {
    mouseflowAutoStart = true;
  } 

  window._mfq = window._mfq || [];
  (function() {
    var mf = document.createElement("script");
    mf.type = "text/javascript"; mf.defer = true;
    mf.src = "//cdn.mouseflow.com/projects/<WEBSITE_ID>.js";
    document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(mf);
  })();
</script>

Note: Replace <WEBSITE_ID> with your own website ID from Mouseflow.

Exclude Visits From Multiple Referral Sources

<script>
  var mouseflowAutoStart = false;
  var referrerDomains = ['google.com', 'facebook.com'];
  var match = false;

  for (var i = 0; i < referrerDomains.length; i++) {
    var referrerDomain = referrerDomains[i];

    if (document.referrer.indexOf(referrerDomain) > -1) { 
      match = true;
    }
  }

  if (!match) {
    document.cookie = 'mf_record=1;path=/;max-age=' + 60 * 60 * 24;
  }

  if (document.cookie.indexOf('mf_record=1') > -1) {
    mouseflowAutoStart = true;
  } 

  window._mfq = window._mfq || [];
  (function() {
    var mf = document.createElement("script");
    mf.type = "text/javascript"; mf.defer = true;
    mf.src = "//cdn.mouseflow.com/projects/<WEBSITE_ID>.js";
    document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(mf);
  })();
</script>

Note: Replace <WEBSITE_ID> with your own website ID from Mouseflow.