Can't get my referer code to actually result in Google Analytics showing the referral

Would the code below be all that is necessary to add a referer tag to an HTML request?

I have tested this code on my personal site and although I can see referrals from other sites appear in Google Analytics' repo开发者_StackOverflowrts, a referer named mysite doesn't appear, even if I wait a day or two to make sure GA has updated its reports.

IDhttp1.Create(Self);
IDhttp1.HandleRedirects := TRUE;
IDhttp1.Request.Referer := 'http://www.mysite.com';
IDhttp1.Get(URL); // ignore result. Just done to hit the site with the referer string

Follow-up to Add "referer" to header when using ShellExecute.

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I'm not familiar with Delphi but it looks like you're trying to request a page programmatically. However, this probably won't execute the Google Analytics JavaScript code to register the pageview.

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Do not rely on Google Analytics or this kind of tools to make conclusions, at least, without waiting a reasonable amount of time, as statistics are not real-time, but reasonable up to date.

Use a logger, a sniffer or check your server logs to see what's going to the server.

Is what I did to properly write this answer: the apache server access log show this:

As you can see, the referrer is correctly reported to the server.