Hi, I want to see the exact link of the topic post that has been shared which appears in "‘top referred topics’ "Can anyone guide me on how to see this data in the data explorer?

Would something like this fit the bill? --[params] -- date :start_date -- date :end_date SELECT 'https://meta.discourse.org/' || 't/' || t.slug || '/' || t.id || '/' || p.post_number AS post_url, COUNT(*) AS external_click_count FROM incoming_links il INNER JOIN posts p ON p.id = il.post_id INNER JOIN topics t ON t.id = p.topic_id WHERE t.archetype = 'regular' AND il.created_at::date BETWEEN :start_date AND :end_date GROUP BY p.id, t.id ORDER BY external_click_count DESC (Though swop out your own site link rather than https://meta.discourse.org :slight_smile: )

Is this what you are looking for? [image] Is the info Top Referred Topics/ Top Traffic Sources stored in a table in the database? Data & reporting For traffic sources, give this query a try. It returns the traffic source domain name, the number of clicks from the traffic source within the time period, and the number of distinct topics that were linked to from the traffic source. Results are ordered by click count in descending order. The query requires you to set start_date and end_date parameters. Dates should be in the form ‘yyyy-mm-dd’, for example 2020-01-09. The query limits the number of results to 100. If you need to change that, …

Thank you it works you are awesome. :grinning:

How to see exact link of ‘top referred topics’

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JammyDodger September 27, 2023, 12:38pm 4

Just to clarify, you want the actual URL and not the pretty title? eg. https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-see-exact-link-of-top-referred-topics/275250 and not How to see exact link of ‘top referred topics’

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How to see exact link of ‘top referred topics’

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