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YLB Score › The checks, explained › Part III, Will a stranger trust you?

What a visitor leaves behind when they click away

When a visitor follows a link from your site to another, their browser can tell the other site exactly which page they came from. A small setting decides how much of that to share.

One line.

Worth about 1 point of your 100 for a typical businessAbout 1 hour, by your web person

See for yourself

securityheaders.com lists Referrer-Policy.

How to fix it

  1. Have your web person add the setting; strict-origin-when-cross-origin is a sensible default.
The technical version, for your web person

Referrer-Policy. The header. Presence earns the mark.

What the check reads. Presence of the Referrer-Policy response header.

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