Hi I-F Community, I would like to request a fix for the ?i=1 security redirect system because it appears to strip or break HTTP referrer data during redirects, causing traffic to show as (direct) in analytics instead of organic/search/social sources. This creates major problems for Google Analytics,…

Did you read? [image] Why do I see ?i=1 at the end of a URL Websites and PHP Don’t worry, this is normal! When you visit your website, you might notice ?i=1 added to the end of your URL. Here’s what’s happening and why. What is the ?i=1 suffix? The ?i=1 is a …

I understand, and I genuinely love InfinityFree. I’ve been using it for almost 5 years now and I really appreciate the free hosting service they provide. The only issue I’m facing is the (direct) traffic attribution caused by this. Almost all of my traffic is organic, but analytics reports nearly 98…

Intrestingly you’re not the first person recently to come to the forum with this exact request. Here was admin’s answer to the other person [image] InfinityFree ?i=1 Causing Direct Traffic / Referrer Loss Hosting Support In short: no, there is no way to solve…

[image] Mercy_ree: AdSense RPM/performance since website owners cannot properly track where visitors come from I’ll eat my hat if it actually impacts ad revenue. I really don’t think that AdSense cares about the referrer URL when doing ad targeting. They don’t even seem to track it in the AdS…

I understand now, thanks for explaining. My concern was simply that traffic source data is important for analytics and understanding user behavior. When the original referrer gets stripped by the redirect, it becomes impossible to properly tell where visitors actually came from or what content/searc…

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KangJL May 20, 2026, 6:29pm 2

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