The word "Referrer" is correct in written English.
It is typically used in contexts such as marketing, web analytics, or when discussing someone who directs another person to a service or resource.
Example: "The referrer of the new client was a long-time customer who recommended our services."
Alternatives: "Source" or "Recommender".
What about a referrer who was also a friend of the employee?
When I asked to see his referrer logs, he muttered evasively about having an appointment with an S.E.O.
Let's think about the click-through rate for that item: How much commission do you think the referrer — BuzzFeed in our hypothetical case — would earn for its brutal takedown of a book by "a brittle little dominatrix?" Actually, don't answer that question, answer this one: How meaningless does a five-star review seem now?
The standard allows Web sites to record the address of the page a user clicked on to arrive there, a bit of information known as a referrer.
This server will log the type of request that was made and will store information such as: IP address (which will allow website owners to infer location), the date and time the browser loaded the page, what page was loaded, and what site or page the browser was on before it came to that page (referrer).
Wandsworth jobcentre was the tenth biggest referrer of clients to the food bank (out of 208 local referring partner agencies).
We have moved from 121st lowest referrer to tenth nationally in two years.
Indeed, Amazon, the grand-daddy of web retailers, has been running such a pay-the-referrer scheme for years.
But beyond that, he was the grand referrer-outer.
"You gotta me locked in a damn booth, thass no joke!" The operator referres to some records and concluded that the excited Italian gentleman was imprisoned in a booth in the New York Central's station.
The latter are said to refer back (referre) to their antecedent but to supposit for something different, as in, e.g., 'Socrates is running and someone else is debating'.
