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  "path": "/t/infinityfree-i-1-causing-direct-traffic-referrer-loss/118456#post_1",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-01T10:02:51.000Z",
  "site": "https://forum.infinityfree.com",
  "textContent": "I’m trying to understand a referrer/direct traffic issue on InfinityFree related to the `?i=1` parameter. what happens here is, A visitor comes from an external site/search engine to a normal clean URL like:\n\n\n    https://example.com/page/\n\n\nBut InfinityFree seems to automatically redirect or append:\n\n\n    https://example.com/page/?i=1\n\n\nAfter this happens, a large amount of traffic in analytics starts showing as “Direct” instead of preserving the original referrer/source.\n\nI already:\n\n  * use Cloudflare\n\n  * use HTTPS\n\n  * use canonical URLs\n\n  * use clean trailing slash redirects\n\n  * use `strict-origin-when-cross-origin`\n\n  * avoid HTTP redirects\n\n  * minimized redirect chains\n\n\n\n\nMy main question:\n\nIs there ANY way on InfinityFree to preserve the original referrer when the `?i=1` redirect/check happens? Or is the referrer already lost before the request even reaches my site because the InfinityFree security layer handles it first?",
  "title": "InfinityFree ?i=1 Causing Direct Traffic / Referrer Loss"
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